Full Description
Volume 2 continues the history of the U.S. Marine Corps' involvement in "small wars" after World War II, beginning with advisory efforts with the Netherlands Marine Korps (1943-1946). The authors describe counterinsurgency efforts during the Korean War (1950-1953), the development of vertical assault tactics in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia (1962-1975), involvement in Central America (1983-1989), and present-day conflicts, including the War on Terror and operations in Iraq and Libya.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I—An Era of Limited War, 1945-1953
1. An Era of Limited War: The Diplomatic Setting, 1945-2015
2. "A Venerable Korps of Marines": The U.S. Marine Corps' Training of the Royal Netherland Marine Korps and the Insurgency in the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1946
3. "First Encounter": The United States Marines in North China, 1945-1948
4. The U.S. Marine Corps and Small Unit and Special Operations in Korea, 1950-1953
Part II—The Era of Revolutionary Warfare: Laos and Vietnam, 1961-1972
5. "Guerrillas in the Midst": JFK and the New Frontier of Unconventional Warfare, 1961-1963 (Rhonda Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.)
6. "Prelude to Vietnam": JFK, Laos and the Landing of the
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7. "Partners in Counterinsurgency": General David M. Shoup,
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8. "Between Ethos and Doctrine": The Marine Corps and U.S. Army in Vietnam in the Second Indochina War, 1963-1975 (Christopher Ives, Ph.D.)
9. "Airpower in a Counterinsurgency in Vietnam": The Marine Air War in Vietnam, 1965-1971 (James Ginther, Ph.D.)
10. "From the Sea to Battle": The Special Landing Forces and Marine Corps Riverine Activities, 1965-1972
Part III—An Era of Low-Intensity Conflict, 1971-2001
11. The Marine Corps in an Era of Low-Intensity Conflict
12. Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Pitfalls of Low-Intensity Conflict in Central America in the 1980s (Rhonda L. Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D., and Leo J. Daugherty III, Ph.D.)
Part IV—An Era of Persistent Warfare and a Global
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13. "Swift, Deadly, and Silent": The Marine Corps and a Global
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14. "Any Time ... Any Place": Marine Fleet Anti-Terrorist Security
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15. "The Real Dogs of War": Canine "Soldiers" and the War
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16. "An Expeditionary Force in Readiness" in an Era of Limited
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Appendix A: Major Armed Clashes Between the U.S. Marines
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Appendix B: Mao Zedong's Ten-Point Path to Conquest in Guerrilla
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Appendix C: A Chronology of the Special Landing Force in Vietnam, 1965-1969
Appendix D: The Sandinista Counterinsurgency Forces, 1979-1989
Appendix E: Deployment of the Fleet Marine Forces, 1948-2012
Appendix F: The Missions of the Marine Expeditionary Unit
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Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
