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Authors: John C. McManus

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pacification strategy in

U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs)

Vigil, Bill

Wachtler, Walter William

Wahlerscheid, Germany
map

Walkowiak, Bob

Walt, Lew

Walters, Duanne

Ware, Michael

Warfare :

human propensity for

techno-war vs. infantry soldiers

Warlock system

Warnic, Ben

Watkins, Bruce

Watson, David

Watters, Charles

Wayment, Jason

W-day, Guam

Weidner, Mel

Welch, Steven

Welch, William

Wert, Alexander

Wertheimer, Philip

Wessel, Kevin

West, Bing

West, Owen

Western Gunfire Support Group (U.S. Navy)

Westmoreland, William “Westy”

attrition strategy of

big-unit operations of

Dak To and

Operation Masher/White Wing and

U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons and

Weyrauch, Kevin

Wheeler, Earl

Wheeler, Edwin

Wilck, Gerhard

Wildagel, Richard

Wilkins, George

Willhite, Arliss

Williams, Charlie

Williams, Maury

Willis, William

Winslow, Joe

Wise, Alvin R.

Wiseman, Earl

Wolf, Francis

Wood, Todd

Woodford, Matt

World War I

World War II

Aachen, Germany, 1944

advent of nuclear weapons at end of

ground force combat fatalities in

Guam

north shoulder of the Bulge

Peleliu

techno-war vs. infantry soldiers and

Yamato-damashii
(Japanese fighting spirit)

Zaccone, Raymond

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

Zitko, Leo

Zoot Suit

Table of Contents

Copyright Page

Dedication

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 - Guam, July 1944: Amphibious Combat Against a Self-Destructive Enemy

CHAPTER 2 - Peleliu, September 1944: Amphibious Combat Against a Clever, ...

CHAPTER 3 - Aachen, 1944: Knocking ’Em All Down on a Politically Unrestrained ...

CHAPTER 4 - Scenes from the Northern Shoulder of the Bulge: Men Against Tanks ...

CHAPTER 5 - Operation Masher/White Wing: Air Mobility, Attrition, and the ...

CHAPTER 6 - Counterinsurgency from the Barrel of a Gun: The Marine Combined ...

CHAPTER 7 - Attrition and the Tears of Autumn: Dak To, November 1967

CHAPTER 8 - Eleven Mikes and Eleven Bravos: Infantry Moments in the Ultimate Techno-War

CHAPTER 9 - Grunts in the City: Urban Combat and Politics—Fallujah, 2004

CHAPTER 10 - “Watch Out for IEDs!” Twenty-First-Century Counterinsurgent ...

EPILOGUE

Acknowledgements

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENDNOTES

INDEX

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