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.

By Albert J. Mauroni, USAF Center for Strategic Deterrence Studies, Air University (The Trinity Site Papers)

Recommended blogs - Center is at the University of Mississippi

For your research toolbox

"The CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Bridging the Gap are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners." registration OPEN and FREE. Forum begin 10 May 2021.

By Fabian Hinz, 26 April 2021, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

SEVNAV Freedom of Information Act Reading Room

by James Stavridis, 25 April 2021 - a Bloomberg Opinion "Politics & Policy" piece

By Kimberly Jackson, Katherine L. Kidder, Sean Mann, William H. Waggy II, Natasha Lander, S. Rebecca Zimmerman

by Derek Bernsen

by Klon Kitchen and Bill Drexel, April 2021;

By Mark R. Folse, USNI Proceedings online article, April 2021

By Rachel Tecott and Andrew Halterman, International Security (2021) 45 (4): 44–83.

Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative. U.S. Naval War College, 2020

"CSBA’s mission is to develop innovative, resource-informed defense concepts, promote public debate, and spur action to advance U.S. and allied interests." (from its website)

Defense experts participate in various recorded events (which you may have missed)

By Harold Skinner, Jr. / MCUP, 2021

By Timothy L. Thomas, Mitre Corporation, Nov 2020 (available via GPO)

13 April 2021

by Ariane M. Tabatabai, Jeffrey Martini, Becca Wasser

February 2021

by David Tillman, 9 April 2021

March 2021. A Publication of the National Intelligence Council.

From MWI, by Chaveso Cook and Liam Collins, April 6, 2021. One article in a series entitled, “Full-Spectrum: Capabilities and Authorities in Cyber and the Information Environment”

Presented to Parliament
by the Secretary of State for Defence
by Command of Her Majesty,
March 2021

Describes the government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade and the action we will take to 2025. 16 March 2021

Cybersecurity, the power grid and more....

From USNI News, 2 April 2021

By Molly Jahn. Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2021, Arizona State University, (food security as a national security issue)

Release of investigation documents

Release of investigation documents

Commentary by Gen. Charles Q. Brown and Gen. David H. Berger

from the House Armed Services Committee, 23 Sept 2020

Interesting reading on technology policy issues of the day -- this one is kinda scary.

News, hearings, legislation and more....

From Big Think

by Thomas Deen, War Room, U.S. Army War College, 24 November 2020

by Chuck Weirauch, Military Simulation & Training Magazine, 4/2020

from the Heritage Foundation

Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Nov. 5, 2020; by Ronald O'Rourke

From Army Mad Scientist blog - Nov 2, 2020

by Megan Hennessey and Ken Gilliam, October 13, 2020, The War Room

"Council on Foreign Relations's multimedia library of regional and topical issues that explain the fundamental concepts of international relations and foreign policy."

This fall, Stanford University is hosting a brand-new class—Technology, Innovation, and Modern War. The course is being taught by Steve Blank, Joe Felter, and Raj Shah. In addition, they have lined up a series of extraordinary guest speakers. MWI is posting the sessions.

Stanford University is hosting a brand-new class this fall—Technology, Innovation, and Modern War. Steve Blank, who teaches the course along with Joe Felter and Raj Shah, is writing about each class session—offering Modern War Institute readers an incredible opportunity to learn about the intersection of technology and war and hear from remarkable guest speakers.

by Michael E. Linick, John Yurchak, Michael Spirtas, Stephen Dalzell, Yuna Huh Wong, Yvonne K. Crane; Against this backdrop, "RAND researchers developed Hedgemony, a wargame designed to teach U.S. defense professionals how different strategies could affect key planning factors in the trade space at the intersection of force development, force management, force posture, and force employment. The game presents players, representing the United States and its key strategic partners and competitors, with a global situation, competing national incentives, constraints, and objectives; a set of military forces with defined capacities and capabilities; and a pool of periodically renewable resources. The players are asked to outline their strategies and are then challenged to make difficult choices by managing the allocation of resources and forces in alignment with their strategies to accomplish their objectives within resource and time constraints." (from RAND.org) - Posted 28 Sept 2020

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)