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The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture - Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars (Hardcover)
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The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture - Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars (Hardcover)
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The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures
comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to
every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation,
culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences.
Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the
Marine Corps’s long experience with counterinsurgency warfare.
Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for
next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of
battlefield trial and error--but also a story of cultural
collisions. The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look
inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary
sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with
Marines. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military
distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens. She
then traces the history of the Marines’ counterinsurgency
experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth
century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Her
findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a
methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to
forecast behavior. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware
and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in
the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by
the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her
findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency
scholarship that ignores culture. This highly readable book reminds
us of Sun Tzu’s wisdom that to be successful in war, it is
important to know thyself as well as the enemy. This is a must-read
for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency
warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture.
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