“To comprehend something, you must observe it at the extremes.” Col. John Boyd understood that clarity comes when forces are stretched to their limits. In the Western Pacific, where strategic competition is rapidly tilting toward confrontation, the first unit to show up may decide who stays. III Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine Corps’ only permanently forward-deployed Marine Expeditionary Force, lives daily at that extreme. Headquartered on Okinawa with forces scattered from Guam to Japan to Hawaii, III Marine Expeditionary Force is not only the Marine Corps’ most combat-credible formation in the Indo-Pacific — it is arguably the Joint Force’s best-positionedThe post Flood the Zone: III Marine Expeditionary Force’s Mobility Mandate appeared first on War on the Rocks.