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The Marine Corps of the Future

Its role in U.S. national defense

3 Given the difficulty that U.S. forces have had in Iraq and Afghanistan in rooting out the insurgents from among the civilian population, it is likely other opponents will present us with the same problem in the future. Fire support agencies will have to examine their organization and equipment

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Doctrinal Change: The Move to Maneuver Theory

The roots of the maneuver warfare movement in the Corps reach back to Vietnam and the lessons learned there by many junior officers . . .

[William S. Lind]'s name became disproportionately prominent partly because a rigid Marine bureaucracy found him a convenient scapegoat for criticism in their effort to defend the status quo. Of him they could say "He's never been in combat so he can't be right." So a separate controversy having

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Preparing for Maneuver Warfare

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Re Mr. [William S. Lind]'s "Preparing for Maneuver Warfare" (Jun84).

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