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Autore: |
Holmes-Eber Paula
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Titolo: |
Culture in conflict : irregular warfare, culture policy, and adaptation in the marine corps / / Paula Holmes-Eber
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Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California : , : Stanford Security Studies, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina: | 359.9/64 |
Soggetto topico: | Cultural awareness - Government policy - United States |
Intercultural communication - Government policy - United States | |
Irregular warfare - United States | |
Organizational change - United States | |
Sociology, Military - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 “When the Boots Hit the Ground”: Studying Military Culture from the Ground Up -- Introduction -- 2 “Every Marine a Rifleman”: The Egalitarian Military Service -- 3 “Soldiers of the Sea”: The Marine Corps Expeditionary Mindset -- 4 “Honor, Courage, and Commitment”: Instilling the Warrior Ethos at the Recruit Depots -- 5 “Tip of the Spear”: Leadership in the Corps -- Introduction -- 6 “Building the Plane as We’re Flying It”: Simplifying Solutions to Culture in Theater -- 7 “The 80 Percent Solution”: (Mis)-Translations from SME to Marine -- 8 “Where’s the ‘So What’?” Processing Culture at the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL) -- 9 “There’s No ‘I’ in Team”: Reshaping Culture Specialists to Fit a Nonspecialist Culture -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Marine Corps Ranks and Organizational Structures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Culture in conflict ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8047-9190-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464426403321 |
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