Mars Learning - The Marine Corps'' Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940

Keith B. Bickel challenges a host of military and strategic theories that treat particular bureaucratic structures, large organizations, and elites as the progenitors of doctrine. This timely study of how the military draws lessons from interventions focuses on the overlooked role that mid-level combat officers play in creating military doctrine. Mars Learning closely evaluates Marine civil and military pacification operations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and illuminates the debates surrounding the development of Marine Corps' small wars doctrine between 1915 and 1940. The result is compelling evidence of how field experience obtained before 1940 played a role in shaping the Marine Corps' Small Wars Manual and elements of doctrine that exist today. How the Marines organized lessons at that time provides important insights into how doctrine is likely to be generated today in response to post-Cold War interventions around the globe.

List of contents

Preface , Terms of Art , Historical and Institutional Context for Small Wars Learning , Intervention in Haiti and Lessons Learned , Intervention in the Dominican Republic and Lessons Learned , Intervention in Nicaragua and Lessons Learned , From Nicaragua to the Small Wars Manual , Concluding Thoughts

About the author

Keith B Bickel

Summary

A timely study of applicable military and civil lessons that emerge from historical small wars, and the overlooked role that combat officers play in creating operational and strategic doctrine from those lessons.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Bickel, Keith B Bickel, Keith B. Bickel
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2000
• EAN: 9780813397757
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-9775-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Militär- und Verteidigungsstrategie, Krieg und militärische Operationen, Theorie der Kriegsführung und Militärwissenschaft