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The Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (MCCLL) actively collects, analyzes, publishes and archives lessons learned materials to include observations, insights, lessons (OILs), trends, After Action Reports (AARs) and Marine Corps lessons learned reports. These efforts support training and planning for both exercises and operations, as well as the warfighting capability development process. MCCLL focuses on tactics, techniques and procedures of immediate importance to the operating forces thereby identifying gaps and best practices, and recommending solutions across the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership, personnel and facilities (DOTMLPF) spectrum.

Note: this website is CAC-enabled. The mission of Combat Development & Integration is to develop, publish, and maintain Marine Corps doctrine; coordinate service input to the development, publication, and maintenance of joint, multinational, multi-Service, and naval doctrine; and participate in matters of standardization, terminology, and other combat development system process. Maintained by the HQMC Deputy Commandant for Combat Development & Integration.

This page provides direction to authentic current digital versions of publications issued by Headquarters Marine Corps Staff Agencies, Major Commands, and other DoD and Federal Agencies that issue publications used by the Marine Corps. Not all publications in use by the Marine Corps have been digitized, but this is the official source for those that have.

From Lawfare; Shannon Culbertson, Alice Hunt Friend; 20 Sept 2020. Posted 22 Sept 2020.

From The Strategy Bridge, Andrew Novo, Sept 22, 2020. Posted 22 Sept 2020.

By David B. Larter, Defense News, online post dated 21 Sept 2020. Posted 22 Sept 2020.

Various contributors, 17 Sept 2020. Posted 21 Sept 2020.

by Prof William G Braun III, Mister Nathan P Freier, Mr John Schaus. 17 July 2020. Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) . The United States faces a hypercompetitive geopolitical landscape in the Indo-Pacific region, arguably the most consequential theater for US national interests over the coming decades. Although the United States has created exquisite military capabilities to counter insurgencies and fight terrorists, rivals like China have developed a whole-of-government toolkit focused on expanding their span of control and freedom of action, separating the United States from its allies, and deterring US leaders from greater engagement in East Asia. Posted 18 Sept 2020.

By Nataliya Bugayova, Institute for the Study of War; MILITARY LEARNING AND THE FUTURE OF WAR SERIES. "This paper is the first installment of ISW's new series on military learning and the future of war. This series explores the ways the United States, along with Russia, China, and other potential US adversaries, are learning from ongoing geopolitical competition and military engagements." (From ISW) Posted 18 Sept 2020.

USNI News Daily Update, 17 Sept 2020, has the complete June 19, 2020 command investigation and appendices into the chain of command response to the COVID-19 outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt. Posted 18 Sept 2020.

by Caldwell, Daniel; Newport, Rhode Island : China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College, 2020. - Posted 16 Sept 2020. Retrieved from https://catalog.gpo.gov.

by Dutton, Peter; Newport, Rhode Island : China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College, 2020. Posted 16 Sept 2020. Retrieved from https://catalog.gpo.gov.

by Bettez, David; Quantico, VA : History Division, MCU Press, 2020. Posted 16 Sept 2020. Retrieved from https://catalog.gpo.gov.

A free, open access, international, peer-reviewed, online publication - current and archived issues. Posted 16 Sept 2020.

by Jarrod Brook, The Strategy Bridge, 15 Sept 2020 - Posted 15 Sept 2020

From The Strategy Bridge: written by Jonathan E. Czarnecki (8 Sept 2020) - Posted 8 Sept 2020

Fitzsimmons, Michael; Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, January 2019 - Posted 4 Sept 2020

from NDU Press, 2020. Posted 3 Sept 2020.

from the Pentagon. Posted 3 Sept 2020.

By Dr. James Joyner, courtesy of War on the Rocks, 25 August 2020. Dr. Joyner is a professor of security studies and the security studies department head at Marine Corps University’s Command and Staff College. He’s a former Army field artillery officer and Desert Storm veteran. Follow him on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

Lindberg, Tod. 2020. CE Think Tank Newswire, Aug 18. (remote access via your library account number)

by Humr, Scott A. 2020. U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, August, p. 82.

Updated July 28, 2020

by the Leaders of the Marine Corps University. 2020. Marine Corps Gazette 104 (6): 31-34. (June 2020)