Of all the U.S. military services, the Marine Corps has been most aggressive in planning to change its force structure to address the Chinese threat in the Indo-Pacific area. In order to buy the anti-aircraft missiles and long-range rockets it will need to help to deconstruct the Chinese anti-access/area denial (AA/AD) complex designed to keep U.S. forces out of the South China Sea, the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. David Berger, has proposed a manpower reduction of 20,000 personnel
