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This is CBS on the world. I'm John Batcher. I welcome Grant Noosham, author of when China attacks a warning to America A Veteran Marine Officer to comment on the Marine Corps proposal to transform what had been a very

effective fighting force in Afghanistan and Iraq these many years

into an effective fighting force preparing for a possible overwhelming

attack by the People's Republic of China in Oceania. It's called 2033, FD 2030, 2030, meaning the year

will be ready and grants here to help me understand its origins and its thinking.

Grant, a very good evening to you, FD 2030. What is the mission? Good evening,

well good evening, John. Thanks for having me.

Well, FD 2030 was an effort to sort of reorganize and re employ the Marine Corps

so it could fight a war in the Pacific.

For too many years, say 20 years, the Marines along with everyone else were focused on the

sandbox, Afghanistan and Iraq.

And the then commandant of the Marines and a lot of other Marines realized that the Marines needed to pay attention to the Pacific

particularly with the looming China threat which is one that could could defeat us

So I thought it was a good change, a focus

to have the Marines sort of deploy and apply their thinking

to the Asia-Pacific region.

The Marine Corps operated in Iraq and Afghanistan to a great extent, but I'm thinking of Iraq

in the combat phase, as a heavy military unit with tanks and planes and tubed artillery, operating out of bases and putting together

strike forces, that doesn't work in the geography of Asia, so how's it going to change?

Well, it usually doesn't work in the geography of Asia, so how's it going to change?

Well, it usually doesn't work in the geography of Asia.

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