The Marine Corps and the State Department
Subtitle: enduring partners in United States foreign policy, 1798-2007
By: Leo J. Daugherty III.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780786437962
Subjects: United States. -- Marine Corps Embassy Security Group -- History; United States. -- Marine Corps -- Foreign service -- History; United States. -- Dept. of State -- Buildings -- Security measures -- History; Embassy buildings -- Security measures -- United States -- History; Diplomatic and consular service -- United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations
Description: "This complete history of the partnership between the Department of State and the U.S. Marine Corps traces the evolving role that Marines have played in conjunction with the Foreign Service"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of a mission, 1798-1900; title: "Our flag's unfurled to every breeze" : Marine legation guards from China to Nicaragua, 1900-1940; title: Ashore and afloat : the Marines and service Department of State, 1904-1945; title: A new mission : Marine, embassy security guards and the memorandum of agreement, 1946-1954; title: The early years : revolutions, coups, civil wars, 1949-1964; title: Embassy guards at war : Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1962-1975; title: Standing watch over a troubled world, 1961-1979; title: Embassies at war and in peace, 1979-1991; title: Coups, non-combatant evacuations, and the War on Terror, 1991-2007; title: Not just fitting in; title: but standing out : Marine Security Guard School, 1979-2004; title: "Our Marines," a retrospective.