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The USMC, as an integral part of the U.S. Navy and as a historically junior Service, in both size and funds, to the U.S. Army, is an organization that relies on a dominant narrative for organizational survival—“perennially the smallest kid on the block in a hostile neighbourhood.” As LtGen Krulak noted:
The Corps is in a sense like a primitive tribe where each generation has its medicine men—keepers of the tribal mythology, protectors of the tribal customs, and guardians of the tribal standards.
In directing the mandatory reading of First to Fight, it is perhaps fair to assume that Gen Conway, heading a Marine Corps at war for almost a decade, has sought to keep the USMC firmly focused on the twin elements of LtGen Krulak’s significant service and the lessons First to Fight’s straightforward narrative and “tribal mythology” provide for all Marines.
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