Underdogs : The Making of the Modern Marine Corps / Aaron B. O'Connell.
O'Connell, Aaron B., author.
2012
VE23 .O25 2012eb
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Title Underdogs : The Making of the Modern Marine Corps / Aaron B. O'Connell.
Author O'Connell, Aaron B., author.
ISBN 9780674067448
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067448
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 24 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067448 doi
Call Number VE23 .O25 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 359.9 609730904
Summary The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O'Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America's least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation's best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps' triumphs did not come without costs, and O'Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps' interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O'Connell questions its sustainability.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Culture Warriors
1 A Harsh and Spiritual Unity
2 The Privates' War and the Home Front in the 1940s
3 The Politicians and the Guerrillas
4 Forgetting Korea
5 First to Fight in the 1950s
6 Rise of the Amphibious Force-in-Readiness
Conclusion: Marine Corps Culture since 1965
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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