Dispersed, more lethal: What Marine infantry battalion experiments have shown so far

“The new battalion really emphasized a much lighter, more mobile, more lethal combat formation that would have the capability to deal with some of what we expect to be adversary capabilities and really sense and make sense of the future operating environment and conduct distributed operations as the norm,” Bronzi said.
That translates to what used to be battalion-level functions getting into the hands of a company commander and staff. The same flows downward as now platoon commanders are able to bring company-level effects to the fight, Bronzi said.