re: "The Army and Marines and Military Government'

LTC (R) Brent C. Bankus and Professor James Kievit at the Small Wars Journal have written a thoughtful article.



Your first taste:

"Despite the apparent preference of many of today’s military officers to have some other entity (whether of the US government, the United Nations, or even private contractors?) be responsible for doing so, the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps actually have a long history of establishing and running “governments” in both smaller-scale contingency operations and in the aftermath of major theater war."

Download the whole thing here.