The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture

Index 299
Center for Advanced Operational
Culture and Learning (CAOCL), 235,
260
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 57
chaos, creation of, 117–18
Chapman, Leonard F., Jr., 74, 95–96,
100, 265
civic action: Banana Wars as, 142;
benefits to Marines, 198, 276; identity
changes and, 274–76; in Iraq,
220–21, 237–38; lessons for, 271–72;
restless Marine behavior and, 67;
skepticism toward, 235; in Vietnam,
10, 153, 170, 194–98, 209. See also
infrastructure projects
cleanliness and tidiness, 94–96
clinical paranoia, 131
Coalition forces in Iraq, 217, 227–28,
231, 241, 269–70
Cohen, Eliot, 39, 44, 47
Cold War, 16, 75–76, 131
Cole, Eli, 204
collective memories, 63–64
combat: bias for action and, 116–18,
226; boot camp compared to, 108;
experience leading to command positions,
276; preference for, 67, 82n92,
219, 225; prowess for, 100–103. See
also casualty rates
Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) in
Iraq, 240
Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) in
Vietnam: Banana Wars contrasted
with, 165–66, 192; cultural competence
and, 166–68, 261; decentralized
leadership of, 211–12; early
withdrawal of, 273; existing systems,
Marines as amplifier to, 243; experimental
nature of, 6; innovations and,
151, 212; intelligence assets and,
170–72, 198, 258–59, 271; lessons
applied in Iraq, 234, 244–46; local
population, relations with, 168–72,
268; mobile vs. static compounds for,
209–10; nation-building and, 185,
192–98, 270; overview of, 151–54;
paternalistic racism and, 166–74;
purpose of, 192–93; screening
process for, 166–67, 173, 180n151;
small-patrol tactics of, 208–10;
success, measures of, 172–73, 265;
training for, 23, 103, 167–68
commandants, 93, 125–26
Commander’s Intent, 127
Connable, Alfred B. “Ben,” 121–22,
125, 243
conventional war: irregular war vs.,
76–78, 257; Marine Corps legend
and, 64–66; military cultural preference
for, 45–48, 51n67, 51n71, 202,
204; small war vs., 2, 142; success
factors in, 46, 51n76; training focus
on, 51n67, 220. See also specific wars
Conway, James T., 75–77, 84n142, 223,
226, 228
Cooling, Norman L., 100, 102, 104,
123, 131
Corbett, Art, 127–28
corruption, 186–87, 211
Corson, William, 151, 180n151
costs of war: cost-benefit analysis, 1,
16; direct costs, 1; Dominican Republic
occupation, 189; irregular wars,
39. See also military spending
counterinsurgencies, 10, 202–16; decentralized
leadership for, 210–13, 257;
democratization through, 38; dictatorships
resulting from, 147, 150,
185, 190–92, 267–68; distinguishing
Marines from Army, 132; doctrine
for, 202–4, 234–35, 262; formulas
for, 263–64; innovation and, 120–21;
lessons for future, 1–5, 273–78;
Marines’ cultural preferences on, 3,
47–48, 108; Marines’ purpose in, 5;
national culture and, 37–39, 43–44;
scholarship on, 3–5; as second-rate
status operations, 205–6; small-patrol
tactics for, 206–10. See also innovation;
local populations; small wars;
specific conflicts
Counterinsurgency Field Manual: FM
3-24, 234–35, 241
Cranmer, Valerie J., 132–33
Cruz, Jorje, 90
cultural blind spots. See blind spots