Lt. Gen. Robert “Whaler” Walsh, USMC, commander of the US Marine Corps Combat Development Command, discusses how he’s teaching Marines about and preparing them for the kind of great-power competition emphasized by the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy, distributed operations, with the US Navy, warfighting research and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the AFCEA International/US Naval Institute WEST 2018 conference in San Diego. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.