Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps: Volume 1, The First Counterinsurgency Era, 1899-1945

by Leo J. Daugherty III

From the turn of the 20th century until the end of World War II, the United States Marine Corps fought a series of "small wars," starting in the Philippines in 1899, and ending in the islands of the southwest Pacific in 1945. Through this experience, the Marines perfected the prosecution of such wars in its famed Small Wars Manual, written for Marine Corps schools in the late 1930s. The present volume is a chronological examination of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786496983
• ISBN13: 9780786496983
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher