Publications
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The Race with No Finish Line
(2023)
The Race with No Finish Line offers a framework for understanding the strategies of states engaged in competition for regional hegemony. Employing insights drawn from business strategy, the author argues for an essentially ...
A New Conception of War
(2018)
In 1989, the Marine Corps formally adopted a theory of conflict called maneuver warfare and described its tenets in a short but revolutionary doctrinal manual simply titled Warfighting. This conflict theory evolved along ...
Phase Line Attila
(2020)
This monograph will prove to be one of the more valuable works ever written on the efficacy of modern era amphibious warfare. While many students of military affairs have assumed that large-scale forcible entry amphibious ...
Raging Waters
(2018)
The book aims to provide a common platform for interested parties—policy makers without training in hydrology and scientists without a background in the study of international relations—to consider the water challenges ...
Strategic Water
(2013)
After the final phase of drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq, it is important to do what we can to help maintain a level of stability and to look ahead to emerging security threats. Strategic Water: Iraq and Security Planning ...
On the Ground in Afghanistan
(2012)
The book includes 15 vignettes about different units from the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army, and U.S. Army Special Forces; the British army and marines; the Dutch army and marines; and the Canadian army. The case studies cover ...
The Trillion Dollar War
(2021)
What if the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan was fought not by the military but by educating the Afghan youth, and what if the trillion dollars had been spent instead on economic development in Afghanistan rather than on ...
War, Will, and Warlords
(2012)
This book lies at the intersection of international security studies, military strategy, and the operational art of counterinsurgency. For conventional militaries to be successful in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, ...
China's Emerging National Security Interests and Their Impact on the People's Liberation Army
(2015)
As China’s security interests expand and its power grows, it may increasingly have to choose between a long-range calculation that it should avoid angering its neighbors in the region and a short-term desire to display its ...
Aspects of Leadership
(2012)
Aspects of Leadership is a new book edited by Lieutenant Colonel Carroll Connelley and Dr. Paolo Tripodi, the Ethics Branch head, and comprised of essays by a group of 20 leadership and ethics scholars and practitioners. ...
The Dilemma of Lawlessness
(2016)
The Dilemma of Lawlessness explores in-depth three towns typical of Guatemala’s border regions and examines the economic, political, and security effects of the amplification of the drug trade in their streets, across their ...
Disaster Labs
(2020)
Disaster Labs examines the promise and potential drawbacks of public-private disaster response frameworks during the course of seven chapters. After the introduction, the author introduces a series of case studies and then ...
Complex Terrain
(2019)
This edited volume, composed by military professionals in the Gray Scholars Program at Marine Corps University, describes the changing character of urban operations. The pattern of human settlement and interaction is ...
Among Heroes
(2011)
Few Americans know of the battle of Peleliu. It never received the iconic recognition of the other amphibious assaults in the Pacific during World War II such as Iwo Jima or Okinawa. At the time of the invasion in 1944, ...
An Annotated Guide to Tactics
(2021)
The philosophy on which the Marine Corps’ seminal warfighting doctrine is based rests on a tradition of professional military scholarship that reaches back to Carl von Clausewitz’s treatise On War. Clausewitz’s lesser-known ...
A Game of Hare & Hounds
(2021)
How did a narrow tactical victory for the British at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War lead to the failure of the British Southern Campaign? This volume offers an indispensable point ...
Oil & War
(2021)
The world’s economy runs on oil. People steal for it. Nations kill for it. To win a war, the victor must have enough oil to fuel their tanks, ships, and planes. One of the great untold stories of World War II is about the ...
Information Warfare
(2020)
Great political and military leaders understand that communication strategies are key to victory in any conflict. Seizing the narrative can enable victory while failure to do so yields that advantage to the adversary. Gone ...
On Contested Shores
(2020)
Perhaps no prediction has been as consistently made—and as consistently wrong—as the imminent death of amphibious operations. Whatever the changes in warfare and technology, the necessity of amphibious force projection ...
Marines at War
(2016)
This book brings together the short stories of 10 Marines and a sailor who served in either Afghanistan or Iraq, some in both. The authors reflect on their time in combat, focusing on preparation, particular moments, and ...
Khaos Company
(2021)
Khaos Company offers a short story written with the intent to provide Marines with the perspective of what it is like to operate and fight at the company- and small-unit levels in operations of such a large scale and scope. ...
Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands in U.S.-Japan Relations
(2014)
This book is an attempt to both bridge the gap—and show the similarities—in understanding this issue on both sides, as well as to examine the dynamics of the interplay between the United States and Japan over the destiny ...
New Approaches to Nonstate Armed Actors
(2012)
The chapters incorporate presentations from a panel at the Middle East Institute’s 64th Annual Conference, held on November 4, 2010, in Washington, DC. Although the focus of the conference itself was on the Middle East, ...
Women, Peace, and Security in Professional Military Education
(2022)
The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda is a global framework and policy tool that guides national actions addressing gender inequalities and the drivers of conflict and its impact on women and girls. By fostering ...
The Mud and the Mirth
(2022)
Visual arts constitute a significant portion of the Marines’ life, from training manuals to public appearances. Illustrations may inform, educate, or entertain the masses, be they civilians or military personnel. The Mud ...
Forging Wargamers
(2022)
How do we establish or improve wargaming education, including sponsors, participants, and future designers? The question stems from the uncomfortable truth that the wargaming discipline has no foundational pipeline, no ...
The Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer
(2022)
The Marine Corps War College Strategy Primer not only provides students an overview of the elements of strategic logic but also introduces a cognitive model for developing and assessing strategy by leveraging innovative ...
From Hegemony to Competition
(2022)
The end of the Cold War in 1991 brought the United States more than two decades of global leadership and prosperity. Neorealist international relations theory correctly predicted that hegemony, although the most stable ...
Strategic Water
(2023)
The issue of freshwater scarcity has always been of vital concern to humans, and today it is increasingly characterized as a strategic factor in security planning. In the Euphrates-Tigris basin, water apportionment and ...
Culture General Guidebook
(2023)
Current and future operating environments require forces that are as prepared as possible to deal with a multitude of complexities, not least of which are the people within those operating environments and a need to ...
From the Major to the Missus
(2023)
At the height of American participation in the Vietnam War, U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot Major Ray B. Stice, his wife Elizabeth or “Gig,” and their four children wrote to each other daily from October 1966 until his ...
Coalition Leadership
(2024)
Colonel Creighton’s command provides an excellent case study in the leadership of coalitions, which are critical to the United States now and in the future. The U.S. military’s mission in Afghanistan enjoyed significant ...
Wargaming Waterloo
(2023)
Wargaming—the simulation of complex war situations—is becoming increasingly more relevant to political and military discourse as U.S. armed forces lean more heavily on it as a training tool to hone warfighters’ decision-making ...
On Contested Shores
(2024)
The second volume of On Contested Shores builds on the success and reception of the first, providing historians, theorists, and especially practitioners with a new resource to explore the history and the future of amphibious ...
Marines in Crisis
(2024)
Throughout the Cold War and into the 1990s, the Marine Corps faced multiple strategic inflection points. Some of these moments were fights for institutional survival, some were based on emerging technology or internal ...
Power Projections
(2024)
This volume serves as the culmination of many months of preparation and detailed research for the 2022 Strategic Landpower Symposium at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During the symposium, participants ...
Warfare in Peacetime
(2023)
Warfare in Peacetime offers an expansive and elaborated portrait of overseas proxy wars. The structure and substance will prepare observers, analysts, and participants seeking to understand challenges before American and ...
Boots and Suits
(2023)
Boots and Suits, edited by Ambassador Philip S. Kosnett (Ret), discusses aspects of military diplomacy, featuring an edited collection of chapters by ambassadors, scholars, and servicemembers. This diverse set of authors ...
What It Means to Be a Man
(2023)
We all have flaws because, as humans, we are all inherently fallible. If we can focus on becoming better people in life, it will likely help mitigate that fallibility. What It Means to Be a Man focuses on the concept that ...
Shared Experience
(2023)
From early in the modern history of the Marine Corps, The Basic School (TBS) has played an enormously important role in acculturating Marine officers in the profession of arms. Author Jennifer Mazzara’s exhaustive and ...
Coalition Leadership
(2024)
Colonel Creighton’s command provides an excellent case study in the leadership of coalitions, which are critical to the United States now and in the future. The U.S. military’s mission in Afghanistan enjoyed significant ...
Always Faithful
(2024)
This year, the Marine Corps celebrates 250 years of achievement and history. In commemoration of this event, the curators of the National Museum of the Marine Corps are dedicating a special exhibit to highlight rare and ...
Military Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(2025)
The Military Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (MSOTL) field offers meaningful methods for educators to advocate for evidence-informed teaching, learning, and curriculum development on a global scale. The chapters ...
Evolution on Demand
(2025)
The future battlespace promises to be complex, unpredictable, and multifaceted. To answer its challenges, military professionals must think deeply and innovatively about warfare’s evolving character and how to gain decisive ...
Returning from Ebb Tide
(2025)
Returning from Ebb Tide highlights the decline in our nation’s commercial maritime capability for a variety of reasons-the peace dividend in the post-Cold War era; elimination of subsidies for the commercial maritime sector ...
Taming America's Warriors
(2025)
Violations of the laws of war have occurred as long as those laws or the norms that preceded them have existed, and incidents of violence against noncombatants remain a regrettable and persistent feature of war. Taming ...
Women, Peace, and Security in Professional Military Education, volume 2
(2024)
The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda is a global framework and policy tool that guides national actions addressing gender inequalities and the drivers of conflict and its impact on women and girls. By fostering ...
The Boundaries of War
(2024)
The expansion of trade and communication networks has been active since the fifteenth century and has had an undeniable impact on connecting military activity around the world. This fact is visible in the historical record, ...
Warfare in Peacetime
(2023)
Warfare in Peacetime offers an expansive and elaborated portrait of overseas proxy wars. The structure and substance will prepare observers, analysts, and participants seeking to understand challenges before American and ...
Boots and Suits
(2023)
Boots and Suits, edited by Ambassador Philip S. Kosnett (Ret), discusses aspects of military diplomacy, featuring an edited collection of chapters by ambassadors, scholars, and servicemembers. This diverse set of authors ...
Military Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(2025)
The Military Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (MSOTL) field offers meaningful methods for educators to advocate for evidence-informed teaching, learning, and curriculum development on a global scale. The chapters ...