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[iv] Robert M. Gates, Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review,Washington, DC: Department of Defense, February 2010, p. 16.
[v] The irony is that U.S. defense spending almost equals the rest of the world combined according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.
[vi] Paul K. Davis and Peter A.Wilson,“The Looming Crisis in Defense Planning,” Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 63, October 2011, pp. 13–20.
[vii] Lieutenant General George J. Flynn, USMC “Versatility in the Age of Uncertainty,” Naval Institute Proceedings, November, 2010, pp. 22–27. LtCol John T. Quinn,
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[viii] Colonel Vince Goulding, USMC (ret.) “Task Force 58,”Marine Corps Gazette,August 2011, pp. 38–41.
[ix] For more background on some of these operations see LtCol John C. Berry, Jr.,“U.S. Marine Corps in Review,” Naval Institute Proceedings, May 2010, pp. 82–84.
[x] Robert O.Work,“Post-Afghanistan Marine Corps,”Marine Corps Gazette, November 2010, pp. 106–121.
[xi] General James N. Mattis, USMC, Joint Operational Environment 2010, Suffolk,VA: U.S. Joint Forces Command, February 2010.
[xii] Robert M. Gates, Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review,Washington, DC: Department of Defense, February 2010.
[xiii] Colonel Douglas King, USMC (ret.) and LtCol John Berry, USMC (ret.) “National Policy and Reaching the Beach,” Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2011;
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[xiv] LtCol John Noel Williams, USMC (ret.) “The Next Wave,Assault Operations for a New Era” Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2011, pp. 32–36.
[xv] The official concept has not been released, although a joint office has been established. Critics are already commenting, see John N. Williams, “Air-Sea
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[xvi] Martin E. Dempsey, Joint Operational Access Concept,Version 1.0,Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 17 January 2012. Accessed at
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