U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare, 1898-2007
Anthology and Selected Bibliography
Edited by Colonel Stephen S. Evans
ABOUT THE BOOK
This anthology presents a collection of 27 articles on counterinsurgency warfare and includes a broad bibliography that collectively describe the role played by the United States in various counterinsurgency and irregular warfare efforts from 1898 until 2007, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Marine Corps in the conduct of such efforts. Like other previously published USMC History Division anthologies on earlier wars, the purpose of this volume is to provide readers with a general overview and introduction to the topic of counterinsurgency and irregular warfare. Designed essentially as a primer, this volume is intended to serve as an initial educational resource that provides Marine officers and other national security professionals with the historical basis for modern-day USMC counterinsurgency strategy and operational doctrine.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Colonel Stephen S. Evans, USMCR, researched and compiled this work as a field historian with the Marine Corps History Division. He has experience at various operational levels, both joint and multinational, in the continental United States and overseas, and has performed duty with all three Marine Expeditionary Forces, Marine Forces Atlantic, Marine Forces Europe, and U.S. Forces Korea. He has also held a range of positions in administrative and educational roles at Quantico and the Pentagon. Colonel Evans holds a doctor- ate in history from Temple University and has published two historical monographs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Theory
Insurgency: Modern Warfare Evolves into a Fourth Generation
Thomas X. Hammes
Back to the Street Without Joy: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam and Other Small Wars
Robert M. Cassidy
Countering Irregular Threats: A Comprehensive Approach
Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Part II. Philippine Insurrection, 1899–1902
Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899–1902
Timothy K. Deady
We Will Go Heavily Armed: The Marines’ Small War on Samar, 1901–1902
Brian McAllister Linn
Part III. Nicaragua, 1909–1933
Airpower and Restraint in Small Wars: Marine Corps Aviation in the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, 1927–1933
Wray R. Johnson
U.S. Marines and Miskito Indians: The Rio Coco Patrol in 1928
David C. Brooks
Lessons from Yesterday’s Operations Short of War: Nicaragua and the Small Wars Manual
Richard J. Macak Jr.
Part IV. Haiti, 1915–1934
The American Occupation of Haiti: Problems and Programs, 1920–1928
Robert Debs Heinl Jr. and Nancy Gordon Heinl
Administering the Protectorates: The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Richard Millett and G. Dale Gaddy
Part V. Dominican Republic, 1916–1924
Caudillos and Gavilleros versus the United States Marines: Guerrilla Insurgency During the Dominican Intervention, 1916–1924
Bruce J. Calder
Cacos and Caudillos: Marines and Counterinsurgency in Hispanolia, 1915–1924
Graham A. Cosmas
Part VI. Vietnam
A Feather in Their Cap? The Marines’ Combined Action Program in Vietnam
Lawrence A. Yates
CORDS/Phoenix: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Vietnam for the Future
Dale Andrade and James H. Wilbanks
Part VII. Global War on Terrorism: Overview and Strategy
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency
David W. Barno
Countering Evolved Insurgent Networks
Thomas X. Hammes
Advances in Predeployment Culture Training: The U.S. Marine Corps Approach
Barak A. Salmoni
Part VIII. Islamism, Islamists, and Insurgency
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat
Andrew Harvey, Ian Sullivan, and Ralph Groves
The Concept and Practice of Jihad in Islam
Michael G. Knapp
Part IX. Afghanistan
Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan
Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason
Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment
Sean M. Maloney
Part X. Iraq
Assessing Iraq’s Sunni Arab Insurgency
Michael Eisenstadt and Jeffrey White
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Steven Metz
Part XI. Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and the Horn of Africa
Around the Horn
David J. Danelo
The War on Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
Tom Duhs
Recognizing Somaliland: Forward Step in Countering Terrorism?
Kurt Shillinger
Fighting Terrorism in East Africa and the Horn
David H. Shinn
Selected Bibliography