The Futures Assessment Division (FAD) analyzes long-range alternative future security environments and reports future force implications in order to assist CMC and senior leadership to posture the Marine Corps for future success. The intent of the group is not to be predictive in nature but rather to highlight plausible alternatives to the accepted baseline future and associated thinking. Notes From The Edge is a small sampling of FAD scanning that we hope will provoke discussion and expand your current paradigm of the future.  We hope to broaden your perspective concerning both the general nature and detail of "alternative futures";  not necessarily to change current understanding of the most probable future.