Marine Corps preparing to publish new information doctrine

The Marine Corps is preparing to publish a new information doctrine that will provide an implementation strategy to elevate information as a warfighting function, according to Deputy Commandant for Information Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy.

The service is in the “final stages” of assembling the new document, Doctrinal Publication 8-10, and will release it in approximately 30 days, Glavy said Monday at the Association of Old Crows annual symposium.

In June 2022, the Marine Corps published Doctrinal Publication 8, Information, produced as part of the Force Design 2030 effort and informed by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The document outlined multiple forms of information advantage -- including technological overmatch and force resiliency -- that Marines can achieve by applying information as a warfighting function.

While this original doctrine delivered a high-level discussion of the topic, the forthcoming follow-up will provide a more concrete implementation game plan, Glavy explained.

“MCDP-8 was a cognitive discussion, more of a discussion than educational,” he said. “So, 8-10 gets into the practical application.”

“We’re in the final stages -- 30 days,” he added. “The reviews and publications always take a little longer than expected, but 30 days.”