TY - BOOK ID - 80833619 TI - Force reduction : Marine and Army drawdowns examined, in brief PY - 2014 SN - 9781631175879 1631175874 9781631175862 PB - New York : Novinka, DB - UniCat KW - United States. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833619 AB - The Marine Corps characterizes itself as a crisis response expeditionary force which is task organized and able to conduct operations across the entire spectrum of military operations. The Corps is a ""middleweight force"" that is designed to fill the void in our Nation's defense structure between light Special Operations Forces (SOF) and heavier conventional units. A number of decisions pertaining to national security strategy, force structure, and declining defense budgets have resulted in a drawdown of the active Marine Corps. This book examines the drawdown of the Marine Corps, as well as ER -