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Carry through the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 transformation

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 116. Written by Christopher Miller.

Carry through the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 transformation

The document says “should”Who acts: DODHow: internal managementp. 116 in the PDF
What the document says

“Eliminate all USMC law enforcement battalions.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 116

The chapter supports the Force Design 2030 transformation and lists what it involves: eliminating the Marine Corps law enforcement battalions, converting at least one infantry regiment into a littoral regiment, reducing the size of remaining infantry battalions, keeping the divestment of M1 Abrams tanks, cutting most tube artillery batteries, and using the savings for rocket artillery, drones and long-range missiles.

What the document actually says

“Eliminate all USMC law enforcement battalions.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 116
That sentence, in plain words

Close all of the Marine Corps police units.

What this is about

The Marines are changing what kind of force they are. They want to fight from islands and ships again. So they are giving up tanks and heavy guns. The book backs that plan.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates carries out Force Design 2030. Proclamation 10990 marks the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps and is commemorative. The two Department of Government Efficiency orders reach federal civilian staffing across the government and say nothing about law enforcement battalions, littoral regiments, tanks or artillery. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 116.
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    “Carry through the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 transformation,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 116. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-marine-corps-force-design/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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