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0508 - Strategy Advisor

Summary

Strategy Advisors are educated in the reciprocity of war and strategy, warfighting, and strategic interagency/coalition decision-making.

They provide a complex level of analyses to assist senior leader decision making.

Strategy Advisors represent the Marine Corps at the combatant command, joint staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) levels and higher.

0508 billets are listed as additional skills designators and maintained by DC PP&O and DC M&RA to ensure appropriate billets are staffed with Strategy Advisors.

Prerequisites

Selection by the top level school board to a program that offers advanced strategy courses as defined by DC PP&O and MCU.

Requirements

Complete one of the following Top Level School Advanced Strategy Courses (TLS-ASC): School of Advanced Military Studies, Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program.

Army War College, Advanced Strategic Art Program.

Air War College, Air Force Grand Strategy Seminar or Air Force Joint Warfighter Studies Seminar.

Naval War College, Advanced Strategist Program.

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Strategic Thinkers Program.

This MOS will be assigned to a Marine in an appropriate Service, Joint, or OSD planning billet by submitting a graduation certificate through the Marine’s servicing IPAC.

DC PP&O is the adjudication authority for Top Level School programs that result in this FMOS being awarded.

POI CID

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Duties

Strategy Advisors assist senior leader decision making to address complex problems through rigorous systemic thinking.

They contextualize problems sets through lenses of past, current, and proposed strategies, wars, and eras of competition into their larger contexts.

This analysis allows Strategy Advisors to delve into a problem set’s myriad dimensions and offer detailed analyses.

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