1. On Jul 11 2019 colleen (USA) read Enchiridion by Epictetus
  2. On Apr 24 2019 spaike read The Defense Of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton and commented:

    Fun and short, but heavily colonialist.

  3. On Apr 13 2019 spaike read Platoon Leader - A Memoir of Command in Combat by James McDonough
  4. On Mar 27 2019 spaike read Maneuver Warfare Handbook by William S Lind
  5. On Mar 26 2019 colleen (USA) read Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It by Marc Goodman
  6. On Mar 26 2019 colleen (USA) read Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
  7. On Feb 24 2019 colleen (USA) read Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal
  8. On Feb 07 2019 colleen (USA) read The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
  9. On Feb 02 2019 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less by Joseph McCormack and commented:

    Author consulted with JSOC, good anecdotes!

  10. On Jan 28 2019 colleen (USA) read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  11. On Jan 24 2019 David Serafini read Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow and commented:

    The defining one volume work on Washington.

  12. On Jan 22 2019 colleen (USA) read Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
  13. On Jan 20 2019 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis and commented:

    Lively and quick read about the perils of high finance and how to destroy a nation's economy.

  14. On Jan 06 2019 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko and commented:

    I didn't know the origin of "Devil's Advocate" until I read this book, so that was interesting. Does a good job of selling an interesting concept. I can certainly imagine organizations pushing back hard against the introduction of red teams.

  15. On Dec 19 2018 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport and commented:

    Pragmatic discussion of different paths to achieving focus depending on your situation.