R 271453Z NOV 24 MARADMIN 577/24 MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC CD&I//   SUBJ/PUBLICATION AND AVAILABILITY OF THE MARINE CORPS CONCEPT FOR LOGISTICS// REF/A/MSGID: MCO/CMC/YMD: 20231002//  NARR/REF A IS MCO 5401.1 CONCEPT GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT// POC/E. T. ANDERSON/MAJ/MCWL G-3 CONCEPTS/[email protected]// GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. The Commandant of the Marine Corps has approved  the Marine Corps Concept for Logistics: Achieving Positional  Advantage (MCCL), dated August 2024. The concept can be accessed via  the following links: 1.a. Unclassified executive summary: https://usmc.sharepoint-mil.us/ sites/DCCDI/SitePages/Final_Reports.aspx 1.b. Classified concept library: https://intelshare.intelink.sgov.gov /sites/cdi/SitePages/FinalReportsLibrary.aspx 2. Background. To enable the idea of integrated deterrence from the  National Defense Strategy, the Marine Corps must maintain a forward  posture with credible warfighting capabilities. MCCL expands upon the  operational approaches and capabilities identified in the Joint  Warfighting Concept, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Naval  Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations and provides  links to the tactical means and methods presented in Sustaining the  Force 2.0. It is written primarily for non-logisticians. 3. Purpose. MCCL presents a hypothesis and proposes capability  requirements for analyses to determine which are the most promising  for continued development and implementation. Once validated, this  concept will guide changes to Marine Corps doctrine, organization,  training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities  and policy (DOTMLPF-P) that will enable the force to achieve  positional advantage. 4. Scope and Central Idea. MCCL is a Service-level operating concept  that describes logistics support for globally integrated Marine Corps  operations across the competition continuum in the 2030-2035  timeframe. It provides a vision for operationalized logistics,  outlines a method to increase the fusion of logistics with other  warfighting functions, and provides a framework to develop future  logistics capabilities. The concept’s central idea is that the Marine  Corps must posture, organize, and employ logistics as a form of  operational and strategic maneuver to generate and exploit positional  advantage relative to adversaries. 5. Operating Concepts. MCCL adds to the library of active Marine  Corps and Naval operating concepts, which consists of: 5.a. Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), 2017. The  Navy and Marine Corps address the changing security environment in  which U.S. sea control was fading. LOCE hypothesizes that land-based  Marines integrating with Navy forces can support sea control  operations. LOCE envisions the five dimensions of the littorals as a  single battle space with an integrated Navy and Marine Corps  “Littoral Combat Group” fighting under a common commander to gain  sea control from both landward and seaward portions of the  environment.  5.b. Concept for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), 2019.  EABO complements the Navy Concept for Distributed Maritime Operations  (DMO) with the hypothesis that mobile, low signature, operationally  relevant and sustainable expeditionary forces can improve the ability  of the fleet to exploit control of key maritime terrain to establish  sea denial forward, to deter and, if necessary, engage in aggression  in the littorals. EABO echoes the notion that massing effects without  risk of concentrating forces will create advantages. It introduces  the requirement for Marine forces to possess capabilities to “win”  the recon / counter-recon fight in support of the fleet commander’s  objectives. 5.c. A Concept for Stand-in Forces (SIF), 2021. SIF describes an  environment of growing strategic competition in which adversaries  apply a range of coercive measures short of war against partners and  allies. Marine forces contributing to the SIF concept leverage the  agility and lethality afforded by modernized capabilities to gain and  maintain advantage inside an adversary’s weapons engagement zone.  Acting as the “JTAC of the Joint Force,” these forces sense and make  sense of the operating environment while setting conditions for  naval, joint, and combined forces. 5.d. Concept for Naval and Special Operations Forces Operations  (CNSO), 2023. CNSO describes how naval and Special Operations Forces  (SOF) should deliver effects from the maritime domain across the  competition continuum within a joint campaign. This concept proposes  integration of unique SOF missions, skills, equipment, authorities,  and sustainment to conduct coordinated and synchronized operations at  all levels of war. By doing so, SOF will provide joint commanders  more options to deter, de-escalate, defeat aggression, assure access,  and/or support sea control. 5.e. Naval Concept for Distributed Maritime Logistics Operations  (DMLO), 2023. DMLO proposes solutions to the sustainment challenges  that emerge from DMO. The goal is to transform the logistics  enterprise from an efficient, peacetime organization to an  integrated, resilient, warfighting capability. 6. This MARADMIN is applicable to the Marine Corps Total Force. 7. Release authorized by Lieutenant General Eric E. Austin, Deputy  Commandant for Combat Development and Integration.//