The Warfighting Skills Program

Links to digital copies of the books

US Marine fires a Johnson light machine gun while training in North Carolina (1942)

This page provides links to places where readers might find (and download) digital copies of various parts of the Warfighting Skills Program, which was used during the Quantico Renaissance to help Marines improve their understanding of maneuver warfare.

Please note that the list of links will grow as I find (or digitize) additional portions of the series.

First Edition (1989)

7401 Tactical Fundamentals

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Front Matter)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Chapter One - Understanding War)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Chapter Two - The Development of Modern Tactics)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Chapter Three - The Fundamentals of Tactics)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Chapter Four - Education and Training)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Course Review)

• 7401 Tactical Fundamentals (Appendices)

  • Appendices A and B (List of Recommended Books and Wargames)

  • Appendix C (Selected Articles on Maneuver Warfare Tactics)

7402 Small Unit Tactical Problems

• 7402 Small Unit Tactical Problems (Front Matter)

• 7402 Small Unit Tactical Problems (Chapter One - Selecting Objectives)

7404 Marine Corps Leadership (Complete)

Second Edition (1990)

8402 Small Unit Tactical Problems (Complete)

8405 Combined Arms (Complete)

For Further Reading:

Are You Smarter than a Marine?

The Canon

Lunch with John Boyd

How to Teach Planning ...

Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition