U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence personnel collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence to support USMC operational components and leaders. The geopolitical landscape within which this occurs has changed drastically since the 1994 Intelligence Plan (Van Riper Plan) sought to restructure USMC intelligence in response to perceived shortcomings exposed by the first Gulf War. Today, international security concerns abound, and issues such as the rise of lethal nonstate actors, nuclear proliferation by ...