The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture

300 Index
cultural competence of Marines: in
advertisements, 135n39; during
Banana Wars, 260–61; Center for
Advanced Operational Culture and
Learning, 235, 260; culture-general
education for, 262; ethnocentrism
and, 40, 122, 156, 180n151, 194–95;
in Iraq, 122, 224–25, 230, 235–36,
245–46; lessons for, 259–62; in Vietnam,
166–68, 261
cultural inertia, 27, 35n50
Cultural Topography Framework and
cultural mapping exercise, 19–33;
actor selection for, 21–23; core components
of, 20f; data analysis from,
32; data sources for, 7–8, 23–24;
design of, 11n10; explanation of,
3–4, 7, 18–19; identity research perspective,
25–26; issue identification
for, 20–21; norms research perspective,
26–28; perceptual lens research
perspective, 29–32; research perspectives
overview, 24; results assessment
for, 19, 32–33; strategic culture
and, 17; values research perspective,
28–29
culture, US. See national culture
culture of Marines: changing, 41–42,
49n26, 99, 154–56, 267; counterinsurgency
and, 4, 47–48; creation and
dimensions of, 2, 7; cultural insensitivity
of, 47; defined, 45, 53–54;
democratization and, 41–42, 49n26;
doctrine and, 122–23, 136n44;
efficiency and, 185, 268; ethical codes
and, 29; ethnocentrism and, 40, 122,
156, 180n151, 194–95; identity and,
25–26, 45; innovation and, 45; jointness
and, 25, 33; legends and, 63–64;
national culture vs., 44, 50n58;
norms of, 23, 26–27, 28; power
projection and, 52n85, 109n14;
preferred way of war and, 45–48,
51n67, 51n71, 202, 204; security
policy outcomes and, 2–3. See also
advertising of Marine Corps; cultural
competence of Marines
The Culture of National Security (Katzenstein),
26
Cushman, Robert E., Jr., 75, 102, 126
Dalgaard-Nielsen, Anja, 22
Daly, Dan, 59
Dana, Mike, 125
Dartiguenave, Philippe Sudré, 160
Davis, Henry C., 155, 156–57, 188
Davis, Jeffrey, 127
decentralized leadership for counterinsurgency,
210–13, 257
decision making, 27
defeat. See victory and defeat
democracy: culture change necessary
for, 41–42, 49n26; existing government
legitimacy vs., 270; expansion
through counterinsurgencies, 38;
in Iraq, 242–43; order vs., 146;
preference for infrastructure projects
over, 189; US managed foreign
elections and, 144, 146, 149. See also
nation-building
Department of Defense (DOD), 98–99,
105–6, 262
Department of State, 266
Devil Dogs, 59–60, 68
dictatorships after US intervention, 147,
150, 185, 190–92, 267–68
diplomacy, 47
discipline, 97–99, 213
dismounted patrols, 237
disorder, 117–18
dive-bombing, 149
Division of Labor doctrine, 77
DOD. See Department of Defense
doing windows. See “other than war”
tasks
Dominican Republic intervention
(1916–24), 145–47. See also Banana
Wars
drill instructors (DIs): creed of, 86;
cursing, ban on, 61, 99; fighting ethos
taught by, 101; leadership and paternalism
of, 125; uniforms of, 96
Dunford, Joe, 224
Dye, Julia, 124