If you like military reading lists and military books, you've come to the right place. You'll find 2289 books on 83 revisions of 46 different military reading lists. Here's an overview of all the military reading lists that are available. Enjoy!
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From our friends across the pond, this article has little truck with the selections in the Ministry of Defense reading list. I got a laugh out of one of the comments which suggested that they should include Flashman instead - which, ironically, is on the U. S. European Command reading list.
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Essential Reading for the Apocalypse (warontherocks.com)A good roundup of books on nuclear issues. Surprisingly, I couldn't find a single one of these books which has shown up on any of the reading lists here. Perhaps that'll change in the future!
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War Books: Professor Steven Metz, US Army War College (Modern War Institute)Another installment from Modern War Institute's "war books" series. Dr Metz calls out Sledge's With the Old Breed which has been on the USMC list forever. As his favorite he mentions Luttwak's Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace which has shown up on a few lists here as well.
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On Sep 28
Tom Copeland (USCG) read
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
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and commented:
IIRC, "Quartered Safe Out Here" has some counterpoints on Paul Fussell's comments.
- On Sep 24 colleen (USA) read Sustaining the Transformation MCRP 6-11D by
- On Sep 17 colleen (USA) read American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq by
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On Sep 15
Tom Copeland (USCG) read
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
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and commented:
Good stuff. Kind of heavy with the redacted sections, but that's a point he's trying to make. I like the opening anecdote when he talks about his first day in USAF boot camp and how he realized "whoa, I've been wasting my life."
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On Sep 11
Tom Copeland (USCG) read
War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet
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and commented:
An interesting mix of boots-on-the-ground war journalism and geopolitical discussions. The bits about the Kashmir conflict were all new to me.
This book was written in 2000; I think some of his predictions have not quite played out. For example he suggests that in the US the federal government will get weaker and the states will get stronger. I think the opposite has happened.
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On Sep 06
Tom Copeland (USCG) read
Charlie Wilson's War
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and commented:
A profane but lively story. The comparisons to Harry Flashman are a nice touch.
- On Aug 29 colleen (USA) read How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by
- On Aug 25 colleen (USA) read Battle Leadership by
- On Aug 25 colleen (USA) read No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by
- On Aug 25 colleen (USA) read Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by
- On Aug 25 kcholbert (USAF) read Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home--Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI by
- On Aug 24 kcholbert (USAF) read No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by
- On Aug 24 kcholbert (USAF) read The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by
- On Aug 24 kcholbert (USAF) read The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by
- On Aug 24 kcholbert (USAF) read Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq by See more recently read books