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Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
Rick Atkinson
Mariner Books, 1994
Exciting And Well Written
+ A Better Look....
+ If you want toknow what really happen in DS
+ Not a Definitive History, but Compelling
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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
+ Amazing
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 will be a loss for this ...
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Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Deju vu all over again
+ Plan of Attack Was Very Informative
+ Plan Of Attack
I just reread _Plan of Attack_, and was struck by how much light it sheds on the currently unfolding drama swirling around Iran.
To the extent that President Bush still appears to believe that it is his sacred duty to strike pre-emptively at evil wherever he finds it, then the current "coercive ...
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On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung, Samuel B Griffith
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Worth reading
+ Mao's Handbook on Insurgency
+ A Profound Work
+ The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Guerilla Warfare
+ A How Too Book
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Woodward tells it like it is.
+ Straightforward blow-by-blow of starting the war in Iraq
+ Bureaucratic Politics
Bob Woodward once again shows his ablity as a writer. His book is not partisan and clearly states the background regardin Bush' decision to take the country to war. It is easy to read and quite informaive regardless of your political ideology. I would highly recommend it to those who don't feel ...
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In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks, 2005
Impressive Overview of the Tactical Preparation for Modern War
+ Best Book ever
+ War
+ "Tell me how this ends!"
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
James Bamford
Anchor, 2005
A MUST READ!
+ Superb, Once you get by the 9/11 party line myths
+ What Intelligence failure?
a MUST READ for every American...chronological facts laid out for you so that you can't ignore!
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The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Had a shipping problem, but Amazon fixed it!
+ Best in Class MILITARY Manual--Need Civilian Peace SOP
+ A good place to begin learning about counterinsurgency warfare
+ for soldiers or graduate students?
+ Insightful and comprehensive
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Co., 2007
The Lady Be Good
+ Excellent
+ Spoiled by An Army at Dawn
+ Engrossing History
+ Another forgotten corner of the war
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)
Lawrence Wright
Vintage, 2007
This book will get under your skin
+ A plot cooked up by cavemen with computers
+ Good intro to the topic
+ An Excellent Primer on Al-Qaeda's Birth and Growth
+ The Looming Tower
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His Own Words: A Translation of the Writings of Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri
Laura Mansfield
LULU, 2006
Boring, but Important Book
+ A Must Read for those tasked with defending our nation from attack
This book reads like it was written in prisons and caves, which it was. Having said that, if you can wade through it, you get the vision of Al Qaeda as it is articulated by one of its founders. The "War on Terror" is essentially a war against the ideas presented in this book, which serve to ...
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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
+ Understanding the Future of War
+ Required Reading for Changing Geostrategic Threats
+ What is the core of the problem?
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington
Simon & Schuster, 1998
Confirmed predictions
+ Engrossing analysis of world order
+ A decent picture of world politics with some flaws
First published in 1996, this scholarly discussion of future international relations has been a classic from the beginning and will remain so for decades to come. From among the seven most important civilizations the author selected three, which may collide in conflict. Thus, in Moslem eyes ...
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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
Sean Naylor, 2006
Exceptional story
+ Interesting report on the first major battle in Afghanistan
+ Lessons in command and leadership
+ Get through the first half to the second half
+ Too Many Cooks in The Kitchen
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
The world is flat 3.0
+ The world is almost flat, but not completely flat.
It is an interesting book, and Friedman brings up a lot of arguable points Its crazy how much outsourcing really goes over seas to China and India.
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