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Dakota Wood

Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation

Dakota L. Wood is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense and editor of the think tank’s annual Index of U.S. Military Strength.
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The U.S. Marine Corps Has a Choice: Transform or Die

If the Corps does not veer from its current course, it will lose the things that differentiate it from the Army and the special operations community.  

  • Dakota Wood
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This Is Not Your Parents' Military. We Can’t Fund It the Same Way

The price of arms and personnel has risen far faster than inflation.

  • Dakota Wood