In 1949, as atomic weapons were transforming warfare, the Defense Department was rocked by the “Revolt of the Admirals,” when the Navy leadership publicly protested Defense Secretary Louis Johnson’s decision to assign the strategic bombing mission to the Air Force. The analogy is inexact, but today, as information technology transforms warfare, the Marine Corps has been facing what might be dubbed the “Revolt of the Generals.” In this case, it is retired, not active-duty, general officers who are in revolt, and they are protesting not against senior civilians but against one of their own: Gen. David H. Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps.