Specifically this book examines the potential Operations Other Than War (OOTW) threat facing the MEU (SOC) as seen in the problem of understanding the difference between the soldier and the warrior in the Third World littorals. For purposes of this discussion OOTW and Low-Intensity Conflict (LIC) will be used interchangeably. Credibility and capability of the MEU (SOC) are examined to determine the viability of the MEU (SOC) program as an appropriate counter-measure to the challenges of the most likely future threat. The areas of crisis response, power projection, force employment, and...

It is the American Revolution, not the French Revolution of 1789, which was the first example of a war being fought through a mobilization of a nation's people, and thus fundamentally different from the wars that had been previously fought at the behest of sovereigns. Lexington and Concord were but a single day in what would be nine years of fighting in the War of American Independence. Nonetheless, that day was a remarkable mobilization of Americans in response to a British patrol. By 1775, the colonies were well within the grips of what has been referred to as the rage-militare, where a...