Love of the Marine Corps

The love of the Marine Corps is what drove Colonel Thomas C. Wesley and General Lesterby to try to prove Colonel Evans Carlson a communist, crazy or both, and thus ending both of their military careers. They believed so strongly that the time Carlson spent in China with the Communist Route Army had brainwashed him that they set in motion a plan to discredit him. Wesley and Lesterby thought that if the plan Colonel Carlson had to gather the elite with in the elite of the Marine Corps and turn them into the "Raiders," a form of the British Commandos, worked that would be the end of the Marine Corps as they knew it. On the other hand if Carlson really was crazy and his plan failed then that would not only soil the name of the Marine Corps they loved so much, it...