Marine Corps 250 - Marine Corps Association

A Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps

A Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps 10 November 2025 Two hundred and fifty years ago, before our Nation declared its independence, a small group of men

Bulldozers to Baghdad

Marine Corps combat D9 dozers in the Iraq War Marines have always emphasized high-speed mobility. We place a premium on acquiring equipment that is lighter and faster. But sometimes, particularly

Gendarmerie de Marjah

Success at ground level Marjah, Afghanistan, was the financial base and perceived Taliban “heart of darkness” prior to Operation MOSHTARAK in early 2010.1 After a few months, the political perception

Operation RESTORE HOPE in Somalia

A Tactical Action Turned Strategic Defeat >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, September 2001. The authors biography is available in the original edition. ‘Me and Somalia against the World,

Operation PROVIDE COMFORT

Humanitarian and Security Assistance in Northern Iraq >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 1991. The multinational relief effort to aid Kurdish refugees in southern Turkey and northern Iraq

Patrolling Hill 55: Hard Lessons in Retrospect

A company grade officer’s memoir of duty in Vietnam and his reflections on how the Corps adjusted and responded to battlefield challenges quite different from those for which it was

Archibald Henderson: An Era

>Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, July 1960. Extracted from Chapter Four of The Compact History of the U. S. Marine Corps, by LtCol P.N. Pierce and the late

Road to 250: Cultural Intelligence

To the Shores of Tripoli: a Case Study >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, February 2016. Editor’s Note: The authors biography is available in the original edition. Preface On

American Marines in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton

>Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, September 1921. Great deeds were done by the American Marines in the World War, and of these every school child knows. Only the

The First of Many

The Marines’ first amphibious assault on New Providence >Originally published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 2019. Editor’s Note: The authors biography is available in the original edition. Within his

DESERT SHIELD/ DESERT STORM— Ten Years Later

On 1 March the Marine Corps Association sponsored a PME session on the role of the Marine Corps in the Gulf War. The Association assembled a team of officers that