Smith: Logistics, data sharing and mobility are force design priorities

By Nick Wilson / September 8, 2022 at 12:30 PM
As the Marine Corps continues its pivot to the Indo-Pacific, the service's assistant commandant is emphasizing logistics, the secure transportation of data and organic mobility as priorities in the fiscal year 2024 budget. “Every time we build a force and produce elements of that force that have organic mobility, that have low signatures, that have lethality, and you combine those things, the [People’s Republic of China] and other adversaries don’t like that,” Gen. Eric Smith said on Wednesday at a...

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