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not necessarily reflect the position of the US Marine Corps.); Ben Connable,
interview with the author, January 12, 2017.
29. 1st Lt. Michael E. Orzetti, “Ownership of Lessons Learned,” Marine Corps
Gazette (August 2013): 73–74. See also Carroll and Walker, “Legacy Pete Ellis
Would Embrace,” DE8; Maj. Arlon Smith, Maj. Devin Myler, and Capt. Adam
McLaurin, “Institutionalizing Security Force Assistance in the USMC,” Marine
Corps Gazette (September 2015): 84–85; Maj. Trevor Howell, “Traditional
Amphibious Warfare,” Marine Corps Gazette (September 2014): 20; and Maj.
Francisco X. Zavala, “Victory in Counterinsurgency,” Marine Corps Gazette
(November 2016).
30. 1st Lt. Jameson Clem, 1st Lt. Emily Elledge, 1st Lt. Michael Wellock, and
1st Lt. Matthew Williams, “What Happens after ‘the War’?,” Marine Corps
Gazette (August 2015): 81.
31. Col. Norman Cooling, Col. Dale Alford, Col. Chip Bierman, and Lt. Col. James
Donnellan, “Retooling for Afghanistan,” Marine Corps Gazette (October 2009).
32. Moyar, Question of Command, 241; Russell, Innovation, Transformation, and
War, 125–33; West, Strongest Tribe, 208–9; Hoffman, Learning while under
Fire, 204; Maj. Daniel Zappa, interview in McWilliams and Wheeler, Al- Anbar
Awakening, 1:204–9; Lt. Col. William M. Jurney, interview, ibid., 198–99.
33. Chapman, “State of the Corps,” 29–30.
34. Avant, “Institutional Sources,” 420.
35. For examples of CAP reports of these sorts of indicators, see Warren V. Smith,
oral history in Hemingway, Our War Was Different, 140; Klyman, “Combined
Action Program.”
36. Allnutt, Marine Combined Action Capabilities, 11–12. See Fact Sheet on the
Combined Action Force, enclosures 8–12.
37. Capt. R. E. Williamson, “A Briefing for Combined Action,” Marine Corps
Gazette (March 1968): 43.
38. Connable, Embracing the Fog of War.
39. See Klicker, “Social Sciences,” and Connable, Embracing the Fog of War.
40. Rhodes, “America’s Crusade.”
41. Ricks, Fiasco.
42. MacDonald, Overreach.
43. Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond, 41–42; Ricks, Generals, 589–91.
44. Moyar, Question of Command, 220–21; Brig. Gen. John F. Kelly, “Tikrit, South
to Babylon,” Marine Corps Gazette (February 2004):18; Reynolds, Basrah,
Baghdad, and Beyond, 145.
45. Attributed to writer, artist, and libertarian Elbert Hubbard. For a quick reference,
see https://​en​.wikiquote​.org​/wiki​/Elbert​_Hubbard.
46. Kilcullen, Accidental Guerrilla, 122, 126.
47. West, Strongest Tribe, 41.
48. Gray, “Strategic Sense,” 6.
49. Cuomo, “Wild, Wild West,” 30. West, Strongest Tribe, 87, notes this mentality
in action in Iraq.