Books/Movies
[...]individuals outside the Marine Corps believe "that technological progress by future adversaries has made amphibious assaults too hazardous. The book also illustrates how Boyd's ideas on warfare were instrumental in assisting the Marine Corps refigure itself in the post-Vietnam era by helping
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Maj Brown puts Boyd's ideas and the debates surrounding the introduction of maneuver warfare into their context as the Marines sought to learn from their decade in Southeast Asia. Additionally, similar to the conclusion of the Vietnam War, there are debates about the utility of amphibious warfare
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[...]scores of critical thinkers at all ranks contributed immeasurably to the Corps' institutional learning during those heady years and helped reconcile maneuver warfare with the Marines' combined arms, MAGTF, and expeditionary ethos. There İs no discussion of the after-action analysis that
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"There are basically1two styles of fighting... methodical battle; a set-piece, closely orchestrated, slow moving battle, tightly controlled from a highly centralized command... [and] maneuver warfare; a fastpaced battle, loosely controlled and decentralized, highly responsive to a changing
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Walters reviews "Proud Legions: A Novel of America's Next War," by John Antal.
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Hoffman discusses Andrew Gordon's book "The Rules of the Game." The ultimate lesson from this book is that if the USMC wants to reform and ensure that maneuver warfare actually represents the USMC's warfighting doctrine, the USMC will have to think about living in peace the way it wants to fight
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Warfighting: Maneuver Warfare in the U.S. Marine Corps edited by H. T. Hayden.
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reviewed by William S. Lind AIR POWER AND MANEUVER WARFARE. By Martin van Creveld, with Steven L. Canby and Kenneth S. Brower. Air University Press, Maxwell AFB, AL, 1994, 268
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reviewed by Maj Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.\ Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology edited by Richard D. Hooker, Jr., Presidio, Novato, CA, 1993, 414 pp., $35.00. (Member $31.50) This is an eclectic
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