The Next Fight: The commandant is pushing the Corps to be ready for a 'violent, violent fight'

Military Times: Marine Corps Commandant Gen. ­Robert Neller has repeatedly offered sobering — and at times ominous — warnings about the next war the Corps will face.

He says the next fight will be far more complex and deadly than the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan that have shaped the force and its leadership over the past 16 years.

“I don’t think the next fight is going to be a stability op/counterinsurgency: It’s going to be a violent, violent fight,” Neller said in May, while speaking at the 2017 Innovation Symposium awards ceremony.

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