The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture

174 Chapter 6
images of both. Although warrior scenes of combat skill continue to dominate,
heroic images of Marines forging warm bonds with foreign nationals
have the potential to draw in recruits tailor- made for future programs modeled
on the CAP concept. Whether these sorts of Rambo/Bono (to borrow
the J. Walter Thompson term) Marines begin to fill the ranks of service will
likely have less to do with the availability of capable recruits and more to
do with the cultural induction process—“the transformation”—the Corps
chooses to pursue.
Notes
1. For excellent work on the origins and details of the Banana Wars, see Bickel,
Mars Learning; Langley, Banana Wars; Schmidt, United States Occupation of
Haiti; Calder, Impact of Intervention; and Gobat, Confronting the American
Dream.
2. United States Marine Corps (hereafter USMC), Small Wars Manual, ch. 2,
“Organization,” 2. Owing to the chapter- specific pagination style of the original
Small Wars Manual (reproduced in the reprinting), all citations will include
a chapter reference as well as relevant page number.
3. For an example of such sentiments, see Capt. Frank L. Bride, “The Gendarmerie
d’Haiti,” Marine Corps Gazette (December 1918): 298.
4. Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, “The Development of Haiti during the Last Fiscal
Year,” Marine Corps Gazette (June 1930): 106.
5. Bickel, Mars Learning, 94, 108, 112.
6. Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 108–9; Millett and Gaddy,
“Administering the Protectorates,” 105, 110; Calder, Impact of Intervention, 1.
7. Col. George C. Thorpe, “Dominican Service,” Marine Corps Gazette (December
1919): 325.
8. Langley, Banana Wars, 115; Boot, Savage Wars of Peace, 159.
9. Langley, Banana Wars, 119; Boot, Savage Wars of Peace, 157.
10. Millett, Semper Fidelis, 181; Boot, Savage Wars of Peace, 159.
11. Millett, Semper Fidelis, 184.
12. Bickel, Mars Learning, 69; Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 71.
13. Millett, Semper Fidelis, 178.
14. Bickel, Mars Learning, 71; Boot, Savage Wars of Peace, 157.
15. Langley, Banana Wars, 123.
16. Ibid., 186.
17. Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl, “The American Occupation of
Haiti: I. Pacification, 1915–1921,” Marine Corps Gazette (November 1978):
32; Bickel, Mars Learning, 70; Boot, Savage Wars of Peace, 162.
18. Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 82–86.
19. Heinl and Heinl, “American Occupation of Haiti: Pacification,” 35; Edward
Bimberg Jr., “Black Bandits of Haiti,” Leatherneck (August 1941): 9; Schmidt,