Townhall.com::Marines In Search of A Mission::By George Will: "Here at 'the crossroads of the Marine Corps,' some officers are uneasily pondering a paradox: No service was better prepared than the Marines for the challenges of post-invasion Iraq, yet no service has found its mission there more unsettling to its sense of itself.
When asked in 1997 to describe the kind of conflict for which Marines were training, Gen. Charles Krulak, then the Corps' commandant, replied with one word: 'Chechnya.' He meant ethnic and sectarian conflict in an urban context. He spoke of 'the three-block war' in which a Marine wraps a child in a blanket, then is a buffer between warring factions, then engages in combat, all within three city blocks."
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