Making The Corps by Thomas E. Ricks
A Portrait of the Men and Women Who Are the United States Marines
A tightly reported, historically grounded account of how the U.S. Marine Corps shapes ordinary men into disciplined, cohesive units and leaders, tracing the evolution of its training, rituals, and institutional culture through profiles of recruits, officers, boot camps and officer candidate schools; the book argues that shared hardship, strict discipline, decentralized initiative and institutional rituals produce a distinctive ethos that has shaped Marine performance in combat and the Corps’ adaptation to changing wars, while also exploring tensions between professionalism, politics, and the human costs of maintaining such a demanding system.
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- Published
- 1997
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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