The U.S. Marine Corps is proposing sweeping changes to its force design with a single-minded focus—the Pacific—that may have major implications for the aircraft it will purchase in the next decade.

Those changes in force structure also include major revisions to the Marines’ previous plans to develop and procure aviation and missile systems.

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