Paula Holmes-Eber

Culture in Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy, and the Marine Corps

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis-then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command-established a new Marine Corps cultural initiative. The goal was simple: teach Marines to interact successfully with the local population in areas of conflict. The implications, however, were anything but simple: transform an elite military culture founded on the principles of "locate, close with, and destroy the enemy" into a "culturally savvy" Marine Corps.

Culture in Conflict: Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy, and the Marine Corps examines the conflicted trajectory of the Marine Corps' efforts to institute a radical culture policy into a military organization that is structured and trained to fight conventional wars. More importantly, however, it is a compelling book about America's shifting military identity in a new world of unconventional warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780804791908
• Artikelnr.: 48417014

Autorenporträt

Paula Holmes-Eber is Professor of Operational Culture at the Marine Corps University.