Expeditionary Operations: A Reflection Journal Assignment

Running head: EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS1
Expeditionary Operations: A Reflection Journal
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EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS

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Expeditionary Operations: A Reflection Journal
Today, scalable, prompt and sustainable deployment of Marines has come to define a world of conflict uncertainty. The emerging economic powers, strategic risks and warfighting nature and capabilities are changing ways to manage operations domestically and abroad. Specifically, Marines are expected to face a diversity of challenges coming not only from conventional adversary sources yet, more importantly, from a variety of irregular enemies. Moreover, exponential costs of deployments abroad, coupled by mounting strategic and operation risks in backspace, have made agility a mandate. By deploying in an expeditionary manner, Marines are equipped with a new range of skill sets and capabilities to manage new, emerging risks. The importance of expeditionary operations assume further proportions by considering for U.S. amphibious forces and, most importantly, strategic planning knowledge and capabilities. As a Marine, I have come to learn so many lessons studying expeditionary operations yet also developing new insights for possible future professional and personal applications.
The concept of “expedition” is, from a personal learning perspective, particularly critical. If anything, expedition is not simply about readying forces quickly for a single or multi-location deployment. Instead, expedition is concerned, in an uncertain world, about agility and preparedness, in human and non-human resources, to deploy and act against existing and/or emerging war and/or humanitarian risks challenging U.S. interests domesticall...