The purpose of the Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 3-05, Marine Corps Special Operations, is to establish doctrine for the Marine Corps' participation in special operations, specifically the Service's contribution to the United States Special Operations Command with the Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARFORSOC). This publication is intended for officers, enlisted, and other personnel who are involved with the planning, execution, or support of special operations. It is also designed to assist the joint and interagency community with integrating Marine Corps special operations units into all other planning and operations.

This publication addresses fundamental principles for the planning and execution of logistics for the Marine Corps component within a theater of operations; the relationships between the Marine Corps forces (MARFOR) logistics staff, the Marine Logistics Command (MLC), Marine expeditionary force (MEF) logistics staff, and the force service support group (FSSG); and coordination with external theater logistic agencies.

This publication provides doctrine for the employment and use of electronic warfare in support of the MAGTF.

This is the second of a series of functional volumes on the Marine Corps' participation in the Vietnam War, which will complement the nine-volume operational and chronological series also underway. This particular history examines the Marine Corps lawyer's role in Vietnam and how that role evolved. Also considered is the effectiveness of the Uniform Code of Military Justice in a combat environment. Military law functioned in Vietnam. but was it acceptably efficient and effective? There were several thousand courts-martial tried by the 400 Marine Corps lawyers who served in Vietnam. Those trials stand as testament to the Marines, officer and enlisted, who made the justice system yield results through their work, dedication, and refusal to allow the circumstances of Vietnam to deter them. Did the military justice system really work? The reader can be the judge, for both successes and failures are depicted here. This book presents a straightforward and unflinching examination of painful subjects. Marine lawyers in Vietnam came to legal grips with drug use, racism, fragging, and the murder of noncombatants, along with the variety of offenses more usually encountered. The Marine Corps can take pride in the commanders and the judge advocates who ensured that whenever those crimes were discovered they were exposed and vigorously prosecuted. There were no cover-ups; no impediments to the judge advocates who conscientiously represented the accused or the United States.

NAVMC 4000.3---The Marine Corps Medical Information Systems Handbook provides guidance to medical logistics personnel for the effective use of designated information systems to manage Class VIII materiel in accordance with MCO 6700.5, Medical and Dental (Class VIII) Materiel Support of the Marine Operational Forces.

This focus of Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is the personal development of each Marine in a team framework using a standardized, trainable, and sustainable close combat fighting system.

The United States Marine Corps is the largest such force on the planet, and yet it is the smallest, most elite section of the U.S. military, one with a long and storied history. Here, in the most current version of the manual used by the Corps itself, is an explanation of the philosophy that makes the Marine Corps unique-here are the concepts and values behind how the Corps fights. Topics discussed include: . war defined. the science, art, and dynamic of war. war as an act of policy. styles of warfare. professional military education. the philosophy of command. and more.Military buffs, war-gamers, and anyone seeking to understand the increasingly complicated global stage will find this a fascinating and informative document.

Marine Corps Tactical Publication 3-40B expands upon MCWP 4-1, Logistics Operations, and provides detailed guidance to Marine Corps logisticians for the conduct of tactical-level logistics. This publication is primarily intended for commanders and their staffs who are responsible for planning and conducting logistic operations support at the tactical level of war. The secondary audience is commanders and staff officers who require logistic support or who will benefit from a greater understanding of this support at the tactical level. This publication supersedes MCWP 4-11, Tactical-Level Logistics, dated 13 June 2000.

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 4-11.4, Maintenance Operations, provides the commander with the basic information on the Marine Corps' maintenance system and how the system is employed to maintain a unit's equipment in a combatready condition.

This manual contains basic and advanced training and techniques for static line parachuting. It is designed to standardize procedures for initial qualification and training of personnel in their duties and responsibilities in airborne operations. The jumpmaster, assistant jumpmaster, safeties, DACO, DZSTL, and DZSO occupy key positions in airborne operations. The initial training and qualifications of these personnel designated to occupy those critical positions are contained in this manual. SOF unit personnel must meet the requirements for static line parachuting contained in this manual as well as provide special training and instruction for nonstandard equipment, aircraft, and personnel procedures. These procedures are documented in FM 31-19, FM 31- 24, FM 31-25, and USASOC Reg 350-2. Individual service components that deviate from this manual due to unique mission requirements will use approved procedures, techniques, equipment, and equipment-attaching methods specified by their respective service.

Combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom has emphasized the need to improve timeliness and accuracy of battlefield information and derived intelligence to improve the essential fire and maneuver capabilities of Marine ground forces in all operational environments.Traditional MAGTF fires and emerging capabilities that can influence and shape the operating environment must be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and under all weather conditions. They must be able to rapidly and precisely engage fleeting opportunities found in a range of military operations while supporting the concept of maneuver warfare. Unmanned aircraft systems are the persistent link and combat multiplier that allow the MAGTF to improve its situational awareness and achieve timely combined arms effectiveness. Unmanned aircraft systems include the necessary equipment, data communications links, and personnel to control and employ an unmanned aircraft.

This publication was prepared primarily for operations officers at the battalion/squadron level and above throughout the Fleet Marine Force. However, the philosophy and procedures contained herein may be applied by all training managers and trainers, regardless of the size of their unit. This publication reflects the methodology and techniques developed over the years to improve the Marine Corps' overall training effort. It may also be used as a reference tool to train the trainers and to evaluate unit training management.

Marine Air-Ground Task Force Information Operations, operationalizes the Marine Corps Operating Concept for Information Operations. This publication contains doctrine for employment of the various information-related capabilities integrated as information operations in support of the Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF). The purpose of this publication is to provide MAGTF commanders and their staffs guidance in planning, preparing, executing, and assessing information operations in support of the MAGTF's operational objectives. It gives Marines a warfighter's orientation to information operations, providing a basis to understand the relevance of information operations and a framework to implement information operations.

This handbook describes guidance for establishing the command relationship based on the joint force commander's concept of operations. It addresses formation, functions, and organization of the joint force land component commander. It also discusses the operational questions of who, what, when, and how of operations in support of major operations or campaigns by a joint force commander. It is not the intent of this handbook to supplant approved joint doctrine; nor is it the intent to restrict the authority of the joint force commander from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner he deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission.