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9. Capt. David J. Danelo, “The Linguistic Tipping Point,” Marine Corps Gazette
(October 2005): 30. On continuing deficits to understand culture, see Maj.
Alfred B. Connable, “The Expeditionary FAO,” Marine Corps Gazette (March
2005): 51–53; Lt. Col. George W. Smith Jr., “Genesis of an Ulcer,” Marine Corps
Gazette (April 2005): 29–34; and Lt. Col. James L. Higgins, Maj. Michelle
L.Trusso, and Maj. Alfred B. Connable, “Marine Corps Intelligence,” Marine
Corps Gazette (December 2005): 23–24.
10. Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer, interview in McWilliams and Wheeler, Al- Anbar
Awakening, 1:147–49.
11. Smith and MacFarland, “Anbar Awakens,” 47; Moyar, Question of Command,
239; Russell, Innovation, Transformation, and War, 116; Capt. Scott Cuomo,
“The ‘Wild, Wild West,’” Marine Corps Gazette (October 2009): 25.
12. Capt. Michael Ulmer, “Stability Operations,” Marine Corps Gazette (June
2015); CWO4 Timothy S. McWilliams, USMCR (Ret.), “Leading Across Cultures,”
Marine Corps Gazette (April 2015).
13. United States Marine Corps (hereafter USMC), Small Wars Manual, ch. 2,
“Organization,” section II, “The Staff in Small Wars,” 17.
14. Deitchman, Best- Laid Schemes.
15. Cuomo, “Wild, Wild West,” 30.
16. Capt. Brian Kerg, “Drones, Hackers, Anthropologists, Marines,” Marine Corps
Gazette (November 2016).
17. Lt. Col. Jordan D. Walzer, Capt. Jordan Jones, and Capt. Matthew Eamhardt,
“Marine Reconnaissance,” Marine Corps Gazette (October 2012).
18. Paula Holmes- Eber and Maj. Brian Kane, “Incorporating Culture into the
MCPP,” Marine Corps Gazette (October 2009).
19. “Religious Cultural Engagement,” Marine Corps Gazette (January 2013).
20. Capt. Luis R. Perez, “Patrol Base Outcast,” Marine Corps Gazette (April 2011).
21. Maj. Giuseppe A. Stavale, “Living with Ghosts: Japan’s Human Terrain and the
U.S.- Japan Alliance,” Marine Corps Gazette (November 2014).
22. Isaac D. Pacheco, “The 7th Warfighting Skill: How Culture Is Changing the
Face of Today’s Battlefield,” Leatherneck (October 2009), reprinted in the
Marine Corps Gazette (April 2010).
23. Maj. Bryan Eovito and Capt. Brandon A. Salter, “Leading Diversity: Mapping
Our Human Terrain,” Marine Corps Gazette (November 2013).
24. USMC, Marine Corps Vision and Strategy 2025, 6.
25. Capt. Karl D. Klicker, “Social Sciences: A Tool for COIN,” Marine Corps
Gazette (April 2012): 59.
26. Maj. Andrés H. Cáceres- Solari, “Engagement for Southeast Asia,” Marine
Corps Gazette (December 2013).
27. Capt. Amelia J. Griffith, “Operational Culture: Got SCRAT? Stressing the
Importance of Operational Culture,” Marine Corps Gazette (August 2012).
28. Fosher, foreword in Cross- Cultural Competence; Kerry Fosher, director of
research, CAOCL, Marine Corps University, interview with the author, January
13, 2017 (Note: The views provided by Kerry Fosher are her own and do