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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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