Digital Native Transformation

摘要

The Marine Corps requires a concept to transform citizens into Marines digitally in order to meet the demands of the modern era and fully employ the information potential of its most powerful resource. Indoctrination into service culture has not adapted to the era of online personas, despite several decades of experience. Instead, the Marine Corps has adapted to negative experiences and cyber vulnerabilities by restricting the information capabilities of individual Marines to speak on behalf of the Service. Such a constraining reaction handicaps a potentially powerful information asset: the individual digital-native Marine. To harness the power of these Marines, the Service should channel their information efforts from the beginning rather than restricting them. The Marine Corps transformation must extend into the individual's online presence and prowess. Once a Marine consciously recognizes their part of the institution in all domains, 24 hours a day, then they will develop a latent capability for the force in crowd sourcing its information efforts.