“The effectiveness of our Marine Corps forces was most dramatically demonstrated by the brilliant movement of I MEF through numerically superior defensive forces into Kuwait City—revalidating the maneuver warfare doctrine adopted by the Corps.”88 As we now know from Robert Coram’s book, Secretary Cheney summoned Boyd to Washington several times during Desert Shield (the prelude to the liberation of Kuwait, Desert Storm) and the final version of the plan reflected Boyd’s ideas on maneuver warfare.
