1. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild and commented:

    Fascinating history.

  2. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll and commented:

    Read 2002.

  3. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk and commented:

    Read 2003-7 years later deployed there.

  4. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and commented:

    Read 1998-Junior in College/SIS/UOP

  5. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. On May 05 2017 bookreader (USCG) read The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden
  7. On May 05 2017 bookreader (USCG) read Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
  8. On May 05 2017 bookreader (USCG) read The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield
  9. On May 01 2017 kcholbert (USAF) read The Road to Character by David Brooks
  10. On Apr 27 2017 Tom Copeland (USCG) read The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking by Nicholas Capaldi and commented:

    Interesting combination - an overview of informal logic, and an overview of how to sway a crowd and bamboozle your debate opponents. Has a nice analysis of the intro to John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty".

  11. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman and commented:

    Friedman's book was timely when it came out, if a bit dated today.

  12. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin and commented:

    From Balfour to the resettlement, the haste and waste of the west to "solve" the issues coming from the fall of the Osmanli directly contributed to the mess we have today. I read this book in the late 1990s and have re-read it since and it is still relevant. Now with Erdogan undoing the work of Mustafa Kemal, is it about to start over again?

  13. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond and commented:

    Great book, but a dense read at times. Great explanation of why many civilizations at similar latitudes are more likely to expand and survive than those more longitudinally aligned.

  14. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand and commented:

    It is amazing what can be survived.

  15. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and commented:

    "Why do drug dealers live with their moms" will open your eyes to the items of "reality" behind what you see.