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	Podcast:		Access Utah
	Episode:		'The Marines, Counterinsurgency And Strategic Culture' With Jeannie Johnson On Tuesday's Access Utah
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:54:00
	Publish Date:		2019-07-02 11:07:47
	Description:		The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. In her new book “The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars,” USU Associate Professor of Political Science Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error―but also a story of cultural collisions. Jeannie L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Utah State University. Dr. Johnson’s primary research interest, Strategic Culture, examines the impact of national and organizational cultures on the formation of
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