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3. Capt. Joseph Mariani, correspondence with the author, November 3, 2011.
4. Dye, Backbone, 2–18, 100.
5. Fick, One Bullet Away, 87.
6. USMC, Warfighting, 44, 58.
7. Ricks, Making the Corps, 27.
8. Heinlein, Starship Troopers.
9. Kim Hodges, formerly a Marine, now an Army lieutenant colonel, in correspondence
with the author, August 1, 2011.
10. Eliason, “Interview with James F. Amos,” 13.
11. USMC, Warfighting, 11.
12. Ibid., 12.
13. Ibid., 85.
14. Fick, One Bullet Away, 181.
15. O’Connell, Underdogs, 49.
16. Kilcullen, Accidental Guerrilla, 30–35.
17. Maj. Jason Spitaletta, correspondence with the author, October 25, 2011.
18. Krulak, First to Fight.
19. Col. Charles A.Wynn, “A Marine Is Different,” Marine Corps Gazette (May
1944): 15.
20. Flynn, foreword, USMC, Marine Corps Operating Concepts.
21. Krulak, First to Fight, 109, 73.
22. Millett, Semper Fidelis, 137–38.
23. Son of the previously referenced Victor Krulak.
24. Terriff, “Warriors and Innovators,” 222–34.
25. Ibid., 233.
26. See, for instance, Siegl, “Military Culture and Transformation,” 103–6.
27. Terriff, “Warriors and Innovators,” 235. A historic issue that highlights both the
service’s gender issues and its reluctance to innovate might be the arduous process
undertaken by a few female pioneers in overturning the regulation requiring automatic
discharge for female Marines who became mothers. See chapters “Mary
Sue League” and “Jeanne Botwright” in Smith, The Few and the Proud, 229–41.
28. Maj. Gen. Larry Nicholson, conversation with the author, January 11, 2012.
29. Avant, “Institutional Sources,” 421.
30. Ricks, Making the Corps, 20.
31. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup; Connable, “Culture Warriors,” 4.
32. Connable, “Culture Warriors,” 2.
33. USMC, Warfighting, 9.
34. Woulfe, Into the Crucible, 20.
35. Krulak, First to Fight, 179.
36. See Holmes- Eber, Culture in Conflict, for additional insight on Marine efforts.
37. Connable, “Culture Warriors,” 2.
38. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 70–91
39. Fick, One Bullet Away, 109. A far crasser view comes in the form of a Marine
Corps bumper sticker: “Travel to Exotic Places, Meet New People, KILL THEM.”