The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture

310 Index
Warfighting (USMC): as doctrine,
117–18, 122–23; on leadership, 127;
on professionalism, 93; on technology,
103–4; on training, 62
Warren, James, 38
warrior image, 55, 60, 173–74, 274–76
weapons: choice of, values and, 29;
disorder used as, 118; of insurgents,
118; Mameluke swords, 95; Marine
as, 100–103, 276; Marine aviation
and, 149; professionalism and, 95;
rifles and marksmanship, 102–3;
speed as, 118; supplying local populations
with, 242–43
Weigley, Russell F., 46
Wells, Clark H., 211
West, Bing: counterinsurgency principles
and, 223; on Iraq War, 269; on
Marine operational style, 232; on
politics and battle, 226; on training
local security forces, 258; The
Village, 220
West, Owen, 57
Westmoreland, William C., 152, 194,
218
Weston, Kael: on Afghanistan War, 101;
on behavior of Marines, 116, 238; on
Iraq War, 232; on Sunni Awakening,
241–42, 244
“What Good Is Strategic Culture”
(Haglund), 17
Wheeler, Kurt, 237, 243, 270
Williamson, R. E., 169, 265
Wilson, Peter, 36n72
Wirkus, Faustin, 157
women: automatic discharge of
mothers, 135n27; sexual assault and
harassment of, 90, 98–99, 109n24;
status in Marine Corps, 90–91
World War I, 57–60, 64–65, 204–6
World War II: esprit de corps of
Marines, 89; Marine casualties
during, 130; Marine Corps role in,
65, 108, 117; Normandy amphibious
assault during, 132
Woulfe, James, 121
Wright, Evan, 111n54, 126, 136n59
Wynn, Charles A., 64, 66–67, 119
Yom Kippur War (1973), 31
Zappa, Daniel, 274–75
Zeilin, Jacob, 60
Zilmer, Richard C., 260