FOUNDATION
Competing (MCDP 1-4)
By United States Marine Corps · 68 pages
Why this title matters
The Marine Corps' doctrinal framework for operating below the threshold of armed conflict — where the preponderance of strategic competition with peer adversaries is actually conducted, and where most Marines will spend the majority of their careers.
Reading category: FOUNDATION
The publications that establish the baseline: constitutional grounding, warfighting philosophy, and the doctrinal language Marines are expected to know.