OP-ED: Marines In Search of A Mission, By George F. Will, Washington Post, September 23, 2007; Page B07

Will is certainly on a military junket!

Now up, the Marines.

The reality is that the Marines have always been as much or more about elective interventions than required ones. So whatever the era presents, that's what they do.

Now it's clearly the sort of SysAdmin stuff I like to focus on. You can dream of big wars, but in those scenarios it'll be airpower that dominates.

Still, I like to keep my Marines Marines, which is why I describe them as the kinetics within the SysAdmin, to be logically augmented in all the "everything else" by civilians and non-combat focused specialty units.