Maneuver Warfare Collection
Education in the Marine Corps as dictated by MCDP 1 should be three tiered: the education establishment, the commander, and the individual.7 First, the professional schools of the Marine Corps should focus not only on the technical skills required in that specific field, but also the application of
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[...]Lieutenant General Stop ford enjoyed a ten-to-one local numerical superiority for two full days at Suvla Bay.3 Had he attacked aggressively with the force he had, there is little question that he could have cut the peninsula in two and established a foothold to expand the lodgment ashore. The
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In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon ended the draft and the U.S. shifted to an All-Volunteer Force (AVF), emphasizing the importance of quality recruitment.^ Mounting casualties at the end of Vietnam and the Watergate scandal altered American's faith in government leaders and discredited the
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[...]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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Rapid growth of megacities coupled with demographic shifts will stress traditional social norms, resources, and infrastructure-setting the stage for imbalance, unrest, and potential conflict.9 The "three-block" war is likely to evolve to a "three-floor war" where actions occur among an
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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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by Col Thomas C. Greenwood Rarely do book reviews elicit spirited responses, so I am both honored and pleased that my critique of Dr. Anthony J. Piscitellis, The Marine Corps
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[...]SATCOM and PNT are necessary to support communications in a distributed, expeditionary environment. For this reason, space is now considered a warfighting domain and must be treated as such. Since the early 2000s, the Marine Corps has relied heavily on Army Space Support Teams (ARSSTs) to
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According to Col Boyd, to outmaneuver an enemy, one must create a greater relative tempo of operations.2 This is true in all domains of warfare. Large organizations, such as Internet service providers, own and operate ASNs and conduct the intra-domain routing of packets using the language of border
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[...]the two are so similar that MCDP 1 explicitly states, [Maneuver warfare! applies regardless of the nature of the conflict, whether amphibious operations or sustained operations ashore, of low or high intensity, against guerrilla or mechanized foe, in desert or jungleP The strategic studies'
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by Dr. A.J. “Tony” Piscitelli Let me begin by thanking you for reviewing my book, The Marine Corps Way of War {MCG, Marl 8), and for your response to Col
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