Talking About Defense: Leathernecks in Lab Coats

Abstract

Groping for solutions in this fog of half-war, half-peace, which grips not only Indonesia but much of the world, is Col. Gary W. Anderson, a 51-year-old Marine who is chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory here. Anderson is not the typical bunker-charging, poster-boy Marine. An internationally known authority on new kinds of warfare, Anderson more resembles a militarized Thomas Edison, an experimenter in the science of war. Vexing Anderson now is the East Timor question: How does a military force stop riots and ethnic slaughter while minimizing civilian and peacekeeper casualties?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA399733

Entities

People

  • George C. Wilson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army Training
  • Casualties
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Cold War
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Indonesia
  • Laser Beams
  • Lessons Learned
  • Line Of Fire
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Science
  • Peacekeeping
  • Training
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.