Counterinsurgency and the United States Marine Corps

Leo J. Daugherty III is the Senior Command Historian for the United States Army Cadet Command in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Dr. Rhonda Smith-Daugherty is a professor of history and chair of the history department at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. She lives in Rineyville, Kentucky.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I—An Era of Limited War, 1945–19531. An Era of Limited War: The Diplomatic Setting, 1945–20152. “A Venerable Korps of Marines”: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Training of the Royal Netherland Marine Korps and the Insurgency in the Dutch East Indies, 1945–19463. “First Encounter”: The United States Marines in North China, 1945–19484. The U.S. Marine Corps and Small Unit and Special Operations in Korea, 1950–1953Part II—The Era of Revolutionary Warfare: Laos and Vietnam, 1961–19725. “Guerrillas in the Midst”: JFK and the New Frontier of Unconventional Warfare, 1961–1963 (Rhonda ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.)6. “Prelude to Vietnam”: JFK, Laos and the Landing of the deleteMarines, 1961–19627. “Partners in Counterinsurgency”: General David M. Shoup, deleteUSMC; Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC; and deletePresident John F. Kennedy, 1961–19668. “Between Ethos and Doctrine”: The Marine Corps and U.S. Army in Vietnam in the Second Indochina War, 1963–1975 (Christopher Ives, Ph.D.)9. “Airpower in a Counterinsurgency in Vietnam”: The Marine Air War in Vietnam, 1965–1971 (James Ginther, Ph.D.)10. “From the Sea to Battle”: The Special Landing Forces and Marine Corps Riverine Activities, 1965–1972Part III—An Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict, 1971–200111. The Marine Corps in an Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict12. Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Pitfalls of ­Low-Intensity Conflict in Central America in the 1980s (Rhonda L. ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D., and Leo J. Daugherty III, Ph.D.)Part IV—An Era of Persistent Warfare and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001–201613. “Swift, Deadly, and Silent”: The Marine Corps and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001–201614. “Any Time … Any Place”: Marine Fleet ­Anti-Terrorist Security deleteTeams and Combat Crisis Response Forces, 1998–201615. “The Real Dogs of War”: Canine “Soldiers” and the War deleteon Terror, 2001–2014 (Rhonda L. ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.)16. “An Expeditionary Force in Readiness” in an Era of Limited deleteWar, 1945–2016: A SummaryAppendix A: Major Armed Clashes Between the U.S. Marines deleteand the Chinese Communists, October 1945–May 1947Appendix B: Mao Zedong’s ­Ten-Point Path to Conquest in Guerrilla deleteWars, December 25, 1947Appendix C: A Chronology of the Special Landing Force in Vietnam, 1965–1969Appendix D: The Sandinista Counterinsurgency Forces, 1979–1989Appendix E: Deployment of the Fleet Marine Forces, 1948–2012Appendix F: The Missions of the Marine Expeditionary Unit delete(Special Operations Capable)Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex