Is the Marine Corps' Doctrine of Maneuver Warfare Synergetic with the Joint Doctrine for Amphibious Operations?

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Marine Corps ◽  
Maneuver Warfare

Organizational perspectives on the maneuver warfare movement in the United States Marine Corps: insights from the work of James G. March

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
Mie Augier ◽  
Sean F X Barrett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Marine Corps ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Organizational History ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Maneuver Warfare

Abstract This article describes a key period in the institutional and organizational history of the United States Marine Corps. Using historical, archival, and interview material, we apply some of the ideas and perspectives of James G. March to understand the organizational dynamics and mechanisms that enabled the maneuver warfare movement and made the modern Marine Corps a more innovative and adaptive organization. We build on and integrate several streams of March’s research, legacies, and interests, including understanding the organizational conditions that help novelty and outlier-ness flourish, finding interest and value in apparent contradictions, and deriving implications for organizational scholarship and for the organization under study.

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