Marines in Crisis : The Cold War Transformation of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1947-1995 / Charles P. Neimeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neimeyer, Charles Patrick, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Marine Corps University (U.S.). Press, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Marine Corps.

United States. Marine Corps--History--20th century.

United States.

Cold War.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Place of Publication:

Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Throughout the Cold War and into the 1990s, the Marine Corps faced multiple strategic inflection points. Some of these moments were fights for institutional survival, some were based on emerging technology or internal upheaval, and others were more concerned with developing operational doctrine. When compared to the development of its amphibious warfare doctrine between World War I and World War II, these Cold War decisions related to the Marine Corps came about at an astonishing pace. Many of these post-World War II moments came only after painful experiences in increasingly complex and multidimensional Joint combat operations or humanitarian interventions, where international politics, rapidly changing technology, new societal norms, and even culture played an ever-larger role on the battlefield. For the Marine Corps, the Cold War and beyond seemingly required its senior leaders to predict the rapid-fire changes that impacted the new way of war and evolving politics of conflict. In response, those leaders continually transformed the Marine Corps to ensure it played a significant role in U.S. military matters"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Cold War begins

No more Vietnams

Trials of the 1970s

The Cushman-Wilson-Barrow era

Beirut, Grenada, and the Reagan era

General Alfred Gray and maneuver warfare

To the crucible and beyond.

Notes:

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I); Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) distribution status to be determined upon publication.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1545796812

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access