"What the interview offers us as Marines is a snapshot of how the US will wage small wars in the future. A low number of ground troops, allied with a local government (or some other type of organization) will advise and fight alongside indigenous security forces against irregular enemies while being supported by naval and aerial assets. The gear we will use in these operations may be different, but the outline of the operations could have been cut and pasted from Nicaragua in 1912, Haiti in 1915, or the Dominican Republic in 1916."
— Brett Friedman quotes Jeremy Scahill’s description of US involvement in Yemen, and both see in that a future pattern of small wars waged by the US that resembles the earlier small wars of America’s gunboat diplomacy days.
Perhaps coincidentally, there’s some overlap here with the Vickers Doctrine.
