A carefree youth joins the disciplined Marines --

Recruit for attitude, train for skill --

Battle --

Broadening --

Rhino --

The march up --

A division in its prime --

Incoherence --

Cascading consequences --

Fighting while transforming --

Hold the line --

Essential NATO --

Disbanding bureaucracy --

Central Command: The trigonometry level of warfare --

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory --

Friend or foe --

Reflections --

Epilogue: America as its own ally --

Appendix A. My letter to General Robert Johnston, October 1991 --

Appendix B. Jim Mattis on reading --

Appendix C. Correspondence between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral William Halsey, 1943 --

Appendix D. To the families of our sailors and marines deploying to the Middle East, February 2004 --

Appendix E. My dismissal of charges letter for Haditha incident, August 2007 --

Appendix F. President George W. Bush's assignment letter for NATO Supreme Command, September 2007 --

Appendix G. My USJFCOM commander's guidance for effects based operations, August 2008.