Mars Learning
Mars Learning

Author: Keith B. Bickel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0429978677

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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.

U.S. Military Working Dog Training Handbook
U.S. Military Working Dog Training Handbook

Author: Department of Defense

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1461747155

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Learn how to train your dog exactly as the U.S. military trains its canine soldiers. This manual is the Department of Defense’s principle source of information on care, conditioning, and training of our nation’s Military Working Dogs – such as “Cairo,” the canine who served in the raid that killed Bin Laden. From basics, such as “HEEL” and “STAY” to negotiating obstacle courses, to tracking, searching, and even attacking . . . this manual shows readers how our military trains their dogs to be the best trained canines in the world. Contents include: * Veterinary Training Priorities * Principles of Conditioning and Behavior Modification * Patrol Dog Training * Clear Signals Training Method * Deferred Final Response * Detector Dog Training Validation * The Military Working Dog (WMD Program) * Facilities and Equipment * And more…

The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934
The War of 1898, and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934

Author: Benjamin R. Beede

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 9780824056247

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A fascinating encyclopedic survey of the Spanish-Cuban/American War, the Philippine War, and the small wars between 1899 and the end of the occupation of Haiti in 1934. The name changes themselves are instructive. The usage of "Spanish-American War" ignores the fact that the war in Cuba had been largely won by the Cuban revolutionaries before US intervention, hence the new title, Spanish-Cuban/American War. The use of "Philippine Insurrection" is replaced by Philippine War, since the Philippine forces had taken much of the islands from Spain before US ground forces arrived. And guerillas or revolutionaries have replaced "bandits," the term used by the US to discredit oppositional forces. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Small Wars Manual
Small Wars Manual

Author: U. S. Marine Corps

Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9781839310645

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