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A New Conception of War

Book Review

reviewed by Maj Skip CrawleY, USMC(Ret) A New Conception of War A NEW CONCEPTION OF WAR: John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare. By Maj Ian T. Brown. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University, 2018. ISBN: 9780997317497.357 pp. After years of fighting a seemingly endless war, the new challenge is to refocus on fighting peer

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Intellectual Renaissance

Post-Vietnam reforms and the development of a new warfighting philosophy

by Maj Austin M Duncan In the wake of a long and bloody conflict in Vietnam, the U.S. Armed Forces faced the daunting task of reflecting on what went wrong and how to reorganize for future wars. Every service transformed from their experiences in Vietnam; however, none were as significant as the United States Marine

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