Funding gaps slowing down Marine Corps’ modernization efforts

The Marine Corps is working to break out of the ground-combat box the Global War on Terror wedged them into, but whether Force Design 2030 is actually realized by that date depends quite a bit on whether Congress decides to fund everything it asks the military to do.The Corps is on track with Force Design, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said Wednesday, but the precarity of the yearly budget cycle threatens to slow the effort—and hamstring the Pentagon’s efforts to deter Chin