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The article reports on the need on the part of the U.S. Navy to adjust its fleet architecture, and the Marine Corps to develop new concepts, capabilities, and organizational constructs. The naval services will have to continuously evolve to counter the new challenges from a combination of new technologies, a global marketplace of goods and ideas, and changing geopolitical realities. Avoiding detection wills thus take on a new urgency, and operational and tactical maneuver will be essential.

The article reports that U.S. Marine Corps faces significant challenges as it emerges from a decade of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. This challenge is being undertaken by U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command (USFF) and U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command (MARFORCOM) through the Bold Alligator series of exercises. The objective is to deploy combined naval forces in large-scale amphibious operations against adversaries who represent the type of today's hybrid threat , with an eye toward the future.