Another of the volumes available at Marine Parent online—one of the signal works about forming and training infantry leaders, based on actual experience in Iraq. More generally, this and other similar discussions form part of the framework we worked to establish around the production of ReEntry, and the discussion we hope to prompt with it: including (but not limited to) the particular and distinctive culture of the Marine Corps—what one thoughtful officer poses as the intellectual rigor and emotional discipline at the core of the Corps—as well as more broadly of the military—U.S. and otherwise—as distinct from non-military/civilian. As a line in the play puts it, “try taking a gladiator to dinner.” Indeed.
