Call sign chaos: learning to lead

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.