Expeditionary Warfare School (EWS)

(As of November 2020, the contents of the MCCLL website have been migrated to the JLLIS website. Access is still CAC-enabled, and requires that you create an account with JLLIS).
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.

Statement of General David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps, as delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 117th Congress, 1st Session, on the Posture of the United States Marine Corps, April 26, 2021

By Mark Cancian, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 16, 2021.

By Robbin Laird, 11/18/2021, Second Line of Defense

Access full text coverage of the MIT Technology Review (from Nov/Dec 1987 - Present) via the USMC Research Library's ProQuest Central database

By Craig Cooper, Aerospace & Defense, Forbes, Nov. 8, 2021

By Katherine Lawlor, and Zach Coles, Nov 8, 2021

Dated 1 September 2021

Released 2 November 2021

Report signed by General Berger, dated November 2021

From the Heritage Foundation

By Ryan Fedasiuk, Jennifer Melot, and Ben Murphy, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, October 2021

Released October 2021; supersedes The Vision for Naval Aviation 2025

Approved for Public Release

Department of Defense, October 2020

"The ChinaPower Podcast dissects critical issues underpinning China’s emergence as a global power. By bringing together the leading experts on China and international politics, the series offers our listeners critical insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by China’s rise. These extended discussions are hosted by the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies." (from the CSIS website)

by Mark Cancian, CSIS, October 12, 2021

Carlos Del Toro, 78th Secretary of the Navy

From the Department of Defense, dated September 03, 2021

September 1, 2021

CRS Report, October 6, 2021

By Patrick Tucker, Oct 5, 2021; Defense One

By Kerry Fosher, Lauren Mackenzie, Allison Abbe and Ron Granieri, October 5, 2021; US Army War College "War Room" ; Dr. Fosher and Dr. Mackenzie are both MCU Faculty members

By Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense, 4 Oct 2021

Explore these academic publications - available in digital format.

By Christopher Faulkner and Jeff Rogg, Modern War Institute, Sept 27, 2021

By Samuel Cox, August 22, 2021; Grounded Curiosity blog

By Samuel Cox, August 15, 2021; Grounded Curiosity blog

By Chris Field, August 29, 2021, Grounded Curiosity

By Mandy Mayfield, National Defense, 9/13/2021

By Phillip surrey, Modern War Institute, Sept. 9, 2021

By Michael Dahm and Conor M. Kennedy, Center for International Maritime Security. Sept 9, 2021

By Major Brian Kerg, U.S. Marine Corps
September 2021 Proceedings Vol. 147/9/1423

By Margarita Konaev, Andrew Imbrie, Ryan Fedasiuk, Emily Weinstein, Katerina Sedova, and James Dunham: August 2021; Center for Security and Emerging Technology

September 1, 2021

By Authors Dr. Amira Jadoon (USMA) and Andrew Mine (GWU Research Fellow)

A non-traditional CSAF constantly evolving reading list

Journal access, podcasts, and more

By David Knoll, 8/24/2021, Modern War Institute

Interesting look at Afghanistan with a variety of reports

From CSIS: "General Glen D. VanHerck, Commander of NORAD and USNORTHCOM. Gen. VanHerck will discuss the recently completed Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 (GIDE3), executed in collaboration with all eleven U.S. combatant commands, as well as NORAD and USNORTHCOM's focus on Global Integration, Domain Awareness, Information Dominance, and Decision Superiority for the defense of North America."

by Miranda Priebe, Angela O'Mahony, Bryan Frederick, Alyssa Demus, Bonny Lin, Michelle Grisé, Derek Eaton, Abby Doll; RAND Corporation, 2021

By The Editors, MIT Technology Review, February 24, 2021. (FYI - Full-Text of the MIT Technology Review is available in the ProQuest Central database, from Nov/Dec 1987 to Present)

GAO-21-513,
Published: Aug 04, 2021. Publicly Released: Aug 04, 2021.

From the Center for Strategic & International Studies: "This timeline records significant cyber incidents since 2006. We focus on cyber attacks on government agencies, defense and high tech companies, or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars."

By Melissa Flagg and Jack Corrigan,
July 2021; Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) - A policy research organization within Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service

By Mitchell G. Klingenberg, PhD, US Army War college, Modern War Institute, July 29, 2021

"Congress charged this Commission with providing an independent, nonpartisan review of the 2018 National Defense Strategy and issues of U.S.
defense strategy and policy more broadly." (from the report)

From the Council on Foreign Relations - podcasts for your listening pleasure: The President's Inbox; The World Next Week; Why It Matters

By Conor Kennedy, China Brief, Volume: 21 Issue: 14, July 16, 2021; The Jamestown Foundation

By Tara Copp, Defense One, July 26, 2021

Authors: Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Brian Katz, Eric McQueen, Joe Moye; A Report of the
CSIS Transnational Threats Project; July 2021

From the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (U.S. Government)

By Mark R. Folse; August 2021 Naval History Magazine Volume 35, Number 4

By Paul Globe, Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 115, July 20, 2021

By Daniel Riggs. Military Strategy, Vol.7 Issue 3. See more issues at https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/issues/

A USNI Proceedings podcast: "Historian Craig Symonds discusses how naval forces on both sides of the Civil War had a profound impact on America's bloodiest conflict."

Lieutenant General Robert E. Schmidle, USMC, Ret. & Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, USN, Ret. (released July 12, 2021)

Edited by Walter Lohman and Justin Rhee, Heritage Foundation

FINAL REPORT OF THE BARNES & THORNBURG LLP
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TEAM

by Kate S. Petersen, MIT School of Engineering, JMIT News, June 22, 2021

Congressional Research Service Report,, March 18, 2021

By Eric Reid; Brookings Institution Foreign Policy, June 2021.

Hosted by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

By Bryan Clark, Dan Patt, and Timothy A. Walton
Hudson Institute, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology; July 2021

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Report, 28 June 2021

Bateman, Kirklin, Michael Morris, and Matthew Van Echo. "100 Years of Professional Military Education." Marine Corps Gazette 105, no. 6 (06, 2021): 32-35.
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