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Volume 2 continues the history of the U.S. Marine Corps' involvement in ""small wars"" after World War II, beginning with advisory efforts with the Netherlands Marine Korps (1943-1946). The authors describe counterinsurgency efforts during the Korean War (1950-1953), the development of vertical assault tactics in the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia (1962-1975), involvement in Central America (1983-1989), and present-day conflicts, including the War on Terror and operations in Iraq and Libya.

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Author:   Leo J. Daugherty, III ,  Rhonda L. Smith-Daugherty
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.767kg
ISBN:  

9780786462735

ISBN 10:   0786462736
Pages:   473
Publication Date:   08 February 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I—An Era of Limited War, 1945–1953 1. An Era of Limited War: The Diplomatic Setting, 1945–2015 2. “A Venerable Korps of Marines”: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Training of the Royal Netherland Marine Korps and the Insurgency in the Dutch East Indies, 1945–1946 3. “First Encounter”: The United States Marines in North China, 1945–1948 4. The U.S. Marine Corps and Small Unit and Special Operations in Korea, 1950–1953 Part II—The Era of Revolutionary Warfare: Laos and Vietnam, 1961–1972 5. “Guerrillas in the Midst”: JFK and the New Frontier of Unconventional Warfare, 1961–1963 (Rhonda ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.) 6. “Prelude to Vietnam”: JFK, Laos and the Landing of the deleteMarines, 1961–1962 7. “Partners in Counterinsurgency”: General David M. Shoup, deleteUSMC; Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC; and deletePresident John F. Kennedy, 1961–1966 8. “Between Ethos and Doctrine”: The Marine Corps and U.S. Army in Vietnam in the Second Indochina War, 1963–1975 (Christopher Ives, Ph.D.) 9. “Airpower in a Counterinsurgency in Vietnam”: The Marine Air War in Vietnam, 1965–1971 (James Ginther, Ph.D.) 10. “From the Sea to Battle”: The Special Landing Forces and Marine Corps Riverine Activities, 1965–1972 Part III—An Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict, 1971–2001 11. The Marine Corps in an Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict 12. Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Pitfalls of ­Low-Intensity Conflict in Central America in the 1980s (Rhonda L. ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D., and Leo J. Daugherty III, Ph.D.) Part IV—An Era of Persistent Warfare and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001–2016 13. “Swift, Deadly, and Silent”: The Marine Corps and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001–2016 14. “Any Time … Any Place”: Marine Fleet ­Anti-Terrorist Security deleteTeams and Combat Crisis Response Forces, 1998–2016 15. “The Real Dogs of War”: Canine “Soldiers” and the War deleteon Terror, 2001–2014 (Rhonda L. ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.) 16. “An Expeditionary Force in Readiness” in an Era of Limited deleteWar, 1945–2016: A Summary Appendix A: Major Armed Clashes Between the U.S. Marines deleteand the Chinese Communists, October 1945–May 1947 Appendix B: Mao Zedong’s ­Ten-Point Path to Conquest in Guerrilla deleteWars, December 25, 1947 Appendix C: A Chronology of the Special Landing Force in Vietnam, 1965–1969 Appendix D: The Sandinista Counterinsurgency Forces, 1979–1989 Appendix E: Deployment of the Fleet Marine Forces, 1948–2012 Appendix F: The Missions of the Marine Expeditionary Unit delete(Special Operations Capable) Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Leo J. Daugherty III is the Senior Command Historian for the United States Army Cadet Command in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Dr. Rhonda Smith-Daugherty is a professor of history and chair of the history department at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. She lives in Rineyville, Kentucky.

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