Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I--An Era of Limited War, 1945-1953 1. An Era of Limited War: The Diplomatic Setting, 1945-2015 2. "A Venerable Korps of Marines": The U.S. Marine Corps' Training of the Royal Netherland Marine Korps and the Insurgency in the Dutch East Indies, 1945-1946 3. "First Encounter": The United States Marines in North China, 1945-1948 4. The U.S.

Marine Corps and Small Unit and Special Operations in Korea, 1950-1953 Part II--The Era of Revolutionary Warfare: Laos and Vietnam, 1961-1972 5. "Guerrillas in the Midst": JFK and the New Frontier of Unconventional Warfare, 1961-1963 (Rhonda ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.) 6. "Prelude to Vietnam": JFK, Laos and the Landing of the deleteMarines, 1961-1962 7. "Partners in Counterinsurgency": General David M. Shoup, deleteUSMC; Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak, USMC; and deletePresident John F.

Kennedy, 1961-1966 8. "Between Ethos and Doctrine": The Marine Corps and U.S. Army in Vietnam in the Second Indochina War, 1963-1975 (Christopher Ives, Ph.D.) 9. "Airpower in a Counterinsurgency in Vietnam": The Marine Air War in Vietnam, 1965-1971 (James Ginther, Ph.D.

) 10. "From the Sea to Battle": The Special Landing Forces and Marine Corps Riverine Activities, 1965-1972 Part III--An Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict, 1971-2001 11. The Marine Corps in an Era of ­Low-Intensity Conflict 12. Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Pitfalls of ­Low-Intensity Conflict in Central America in the 1980s (Rhonda L. ­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.

, and Leo J. Daugherty III, Ph.D.) Part IV--An Era of Persistent Warfare and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001-2016 13. "Swift, Deadly, and Silent": The Marine Corps and a Global deleteWar on Terror, 2001-2016 14. "Any Time . Any Place": Marine Fleet ­Anti-Terrorist Security deleteTeams and Combat Crisis Response Forces, 1998-2016 15. "The Real Dogs of War": Canine "Soldiers" and the War deleteon Terror, 2001-2014 (Rhonda L.

­Smith-Daugherty, Ph.D.) 16. "An Expeditionary Force in Readiness" in an Era of Limited deleteWar, 1945-2016: A Summary Appendix A: Major Armed Clashes Between the U.S. Marines deleteand the Chinese Communists, October 1945-May 1947 Appendix B: Mao Zedong's ­Ten-Point Path to Conquest in Guerrilla deleteWars, December 25, 1947 Appendix C: A Chronology of the Special Landing Force in Vietnam, 1965-1969 Appendix D: The Sandinista Counterinsurgency Forces, 1979-1989 Appendix E: Deployment of the Fleet Marine Forces, 1948-2012 Appendix F: The Missions of the Marine Expeditionary Unit delete(Special Operations Capable) Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.