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40. Fick, One Bullet Away, 201.
41. Avant, “Institutional Sources,” 421.
42. Joseph Mariani, correspondence with the author, November 3, 2011.
43. Murray, “Does Military Culture Matter?,” 149–50.
44. It must be noted that the Marine Corps continues to borrow a good deal of its
doctrine—that which it deems outside its core competencies—from the Army.
Cooling and Turner, “Understanding the Few Good Men.”
45. Blagovest Tashev, correspondence with the author, February 14, 2012.
46. Dale Nicholas, correspondence with the author, September 20, 2011.
47. Joseph Mariani, correspondence with the author, November 3, 2011.
48. Maj. John H. Russell, “A Plea for Mission and Doctrine,” Marine Corps Gazette
(June 1916):113, 120.
49. Dye, Backbone, xvii.
50. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 41. For other examples of ideal leadership, see
pages 30, 47, 199–200, and 242.
51. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/65466 MS01, Veterans History Project, American
Folklife Center, Library of Congress. It is important to note that this same
Marine had equally powerful stories of the negative sort of about officers
whom he held in the lowest possible esteem.
52. Smith, The Few and the Proud, 262.
53. See USMC, Warfighting, 56–58.
54. Maj. Jason Spitaletta, correspondence with the author, October 25, 2011.
55. Joseph Mariani, correspondence with the author, November 3, 2011.
56. Connable, “Culture Warriors,” 7.
57. USMC, Warfighting, 80.
58. Ibid., 15.
59. An HBO series based on the book of the same title by Evan Wright (and
validated by a second accounting of the same events in Nathanial Fick’s One
Bullet Away).
60. Accessed at http://​ricks​.foreignpolicy​.com​/posts​/2013​/01​/04​/we​_re​_getting​
_out​_of​_the​_marines​_because​_we​_wanted​_to​_be​_part​_of​_an​_elite​_force (italics
in original).
61. Gen. Robert E. Cushman Jr., “The Challenge of Leadership,” Marine Corps
Gazette (August 1972): 15.
62. USMC, Marine Operating Concepts, 16–17. Quotation originally in italics.
63. USMC, Warfighting, 89.
64. Ibid., 91, 60.
65. Ricks, Making the Corps, 19. See also Cooling and Turner, “Understanding the
Few Good Men,” and Dye, Backbone.
66. Alywin- Foster, “Changing the Army,” 32.
67. Maj. Jason Spitaletta, correspondence with the author, October 25, 2011.
68. Maj. Jeffrey Davis, correspondence with the author, October 26, 2011.
69. Spitaletta, correspondence with the author, October 25, 2011.