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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Excellent & See Social Networking Analysis (SNA) Appendix
I believe this manual is an excellent overview of counterinsurgency strategy and some tactics. This includes the broad strategy as well as to the drill down for the units/teams/boots on the ground. Its stated audience is for battalion commanders and their staff and ...
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Tequila Junction: 4th-Generation Counterinsurgency
H. John Poole
Posterity Press, 2008
Drugs, US Security, and Tactics
LtCol Poole's books have been with me on my military deployments and contract security assignments overseas. They have all become intelligence and tactical studies that have given me insights and ideas on how to do my job more effectively. John Poole with Tequila ...
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Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
David Galula
Praeger Security International Paperback, 2006
Essential
This book should be on the required reading for any of the military that are in/going to Iraq and Afghanistan. Page 4 states the obvous, that only took us four years in Iraq to learn...the objective (center of gravity) is the population. The new counterinsugency ...
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Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" Tactics
H. John Poole
Posterity Press, 2007
International Law Enforcement thru Unconventional Tactics
H. J. Poole, in DRAGON DAYS, turns attention to beating our opponents in "The War on Terror". His basic approach is to enforce International Law utilizing Unconventional military techniques.
First, Poole addresses the question of whether or not the Red Chinese are ...
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
John A. Nagl
University Of Chicago Press, 2005
Theory From One Who Gets It
To use a term that many in the military are fond of, Nagl "gets it." His understanding of counterinsurgency operations is both broad and deep, and his writing is smooth enough for the lay reader to comprehend without any difficulty.
Nagl's departure from the US Army ...
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Achieving Victory In Iraq: Countering an Insurgency
Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo, Lt. Col. Andrea L. Thompson
Stackpole Books, 2008
Sound Policy Analysis
Through out history it has taken boots on the ground to discover solutions to complex military strategy. Caraccilo and Thompson's experiences with the 101st Airbourne allow them to offer significant remedies to this ongoing burden
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Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods
H. John Poole
Posterity Press, 2004
Understand what we're up against
If you want to truly understand how difficult it is to fight and win in the Middle East, then this book is required reading. Far too often we get watered-down information out of the press and on the Internet but the tactics of our Eastern adversaries go unmentioned. ...
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The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
Bing West
Random House, 2008
Outstanding and Very Timely!
"The Strongest Tribe" summarizes Bing West's observations and interviews in and about Iraq since the Iraq War began in 2003. Sources are drawn from top generals down to front-line privates, as well as civilian leaders in Iraq. My only suggestion for Bing's book is ...
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On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung, Samuel B Griffith
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Worth reading
I may be one of the few people that read this book that has no military experience , but even without that I couldn't put this book down. I just wish it was longer.
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Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent
H. John Poole
Posterity Press, 2005
Understanding OEF/OIF True Enemies
This is the best book I have read so far on where and who the real enemy is and who is behind and against the U.S. supporting democracy and the liberation of the people of Iraq.
Breaks down in detail who is Sunni and who is Shiite.
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Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism in Vietnam
Mark Moyar
Bison Books, 2007
A critical text on the Phoenix Project
I'm extremely glad to see that this important book has finally been republished and become available to a wider audience. I wrote my thesis in history on Phoenix, and Moyar's work was an invaluable resource, once I was finally able to get my hands on it. It is sadly ...
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The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Last Days of The Incas
Last Days of the Incas is a splendid book, a complex story well told. Readable and compelling. What I particularly enjoyed: bookending the narrative of fall of the Inca empire with the 20th century hunt for Machu Picchu, Vilcabama, and other Inca sites; inspired ...
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Afghanistan And the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare
Hy S. Rothstein
US Naval Institute Press, 2006
An analytical study of conventional and unconventional uses of tactics in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan
Afghanistan And The Troubled Future Of Unconventional Warfare by Hy S. Rothstein (Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) is an analytical study of conventional and unconventional uses of tactics in the "War on Terrorism" ...
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Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
Roger Trinquier
Praeger Security International Paperback, 2006
Excellent Book
This book was written in 1964, distilling the author's decades of counterinsurgency experience in Indochina and Algeria. However, as I was reading it, I found that he could have been speaking about Iraq in present day. In reading this book, a reader can realize exactly ...
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Knopf, 2006
A damning indictment
Since I lived for a year in Baghdad's Green Zone, I felt it was necessary for me to read what happened before I got there, under L. Paul Bremer, bureaucrat extraordinaire. That is why I recently found myself reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv ...
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