A01=Keith B. Bickel
Author_Keith B. Bickel
Bush Warfare
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civil
Civil Measures
Combat Patrols
Common Mind Set
corps
counterinsurgency operations
Doctrinal Process
doctrine creation field experience
Doctrine Making
dominican
Dominican Republic
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Haitian Campaigns
Harrington's Work
Infantry Drill Regulations
Informal Doctrine
intervention case studies
interwar period analysis
manual
marine
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Gazette
Marine Corps Schools
Marine Officers
measures
military doctrine development
Minor Warfare
Moro Insurgency
Moro Insurgents
Night Operations
officers
organizational learning military
pacification strategies
Philippine Insurrection
Riverine Operations
Roving Patrol
schools
small
Small Patrols
Small Wars
Small Wars Manual
wars
Product details
- ISBN 9780813397757
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Keith B. Bickelis a military and business strategist in Washington D.C. He has served in the Office of Net Assessment, within the Office of the Secretary of defence (OSD/NA), and with the White House budget office where he oversaw financing of Pentagon operations in Haiti, Bosnia, and the Persian Gulf. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS.
