Small Wars Manual
Author | : United States. Marine Corps |
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Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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Author | : United States. Marine Corps |
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Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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Author | : United States Marine Corps |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2023-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
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The Small Wars Manual is a manual on tactics and strategies for engaging in certain types of military operations created by the United States Marine Corps. The purpose of this work is sharing experience and preserving the achievements of tactics and organization of small wars, or different military operations of the United States in countries where government is "unstable, inadequate, or unsatisfactory for the preservation of life and of such interests as are determined by the foreign policy" of the United States. The book starts with the definition of the term "small war" and continues into more than 500 pages on tactics, personnel structure, communication chain, transportation and logistics, military-civil relationship, psychological side of war, training, and support of native armed organizations and much more. The book is extremely interesting as a manual on tactics, whether it is used for a military operation or any other sort of massive campaign involving a large part of population, like elections. For example, it contains a chapter telling how to plan and organize legally the disarmament of local population. It tells what laws should be issued and what organizations form, what sort of personnel should be involved and what should be their roles. A reader will find guidelines on how to distribute and spare resources needed for a campaign, and how to properly cross a river in a dangerous area. Given the book's organization, structure and abundance of important information, covering different aspects of civil and military campaigns, this volume is a must-read for any person engaged in a state service or a student considering career in serving their country.
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
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The principles of small wars deserve special consideration due to the increased likelihood of those types of wars and the Marines' early experience in Latin America. In particular, the principles contained in or derived from the Marine Corps' Small Wars Manual (SWM) are applicable to current forward presence operations, including the military's role in the war on drugs, although it is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss the merits of counternarcotics (CN) strategy and determine measures of effectiveness. Latin America is where Marines got hands-on experience in conducting small wars. Now U.S. policy mandates the return of the military to the proving ground. The SWM remains relevant because Marines waged small wars in an American context with all the problems and limitations inherent in that fact. Most of SWM's abiding principles appear intact, if in somewhat altered form, in current doctrinal publications, draft JCS Pub 3-07 and FM 100-20/AF Pamphlet 3-20. An outgrowth of this study is specific recommendations to develop an adaptable regional plan incorporating principles from the SWM which views CN in the context of counterinsurgency (CI), and to use the NSC structure to strengthen inter-agency cooperation in current operations.
Author | : Keith B. Bickel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429978677 |
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.
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Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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Author | : United States. Marine Corps |
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Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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Author | : U. S. Marine Corps |
Publisher | : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781839310645 |
Author | : Sir Charles Edward Callwell |
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Richard C. McMonagle |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Guerrilla warfare |
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This study examines the applicability of the United States Marine Corps' small wars doctrine in current Military Operations Other Than War. Between 1898 and 1934, the Marine Corps was employed extensively in fighting the nation's small wars. These small wars included long-term occupations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua and interventions in a number of other countries. From these experiences, the Marine Corps developed, during the 1920s and 1930s, a small wars doctrine, which was published in 1940 in its final form as the Small Wars Manual. This study examines the conditions under which the Marine Corps was employed in small wars, and how from this experience developed a doctrine for fighting small wars. The study then develops three thematic criteria for the examination of a small war, and, then, applies these criteria to a case study of Operation Uphold Democracy, the 1994 intervention in Haiti. The principle conclusion of this study is that the Small Wars Manual defines a time-proven formula for the conduct of small wars or Military Operations Other Than War. When read within the context of the small wars era, the Small Wars Manual provides valuable insights into these types of operations. --Abstract.