1. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer and commented:

    Very good and yet disturbing read about what could be.

  2. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan and commented:

    A long conference that guaranteed another war.

  3. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman and commented:

    I found this to be Tuchman's best. It does go to show that our militaries and the societies that lead them tend to make the same mistakes and continue to fail to learn from those mistakes.

  4. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley and commented:

    Very interesting book about this history of the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the horrible acts that happened there that eerily echo many of the issues going on today.

  5. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson and commented:

    Interesting book about pre war Germany. I learned quite a bit about the attitudes and situation of that time.

  6. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield and commented:

    The first Pressfield I read. An excellent fictionalized account of a pivotal war

  7. On Apr 27 2017 Bryan Gardner read The Afghan Campaign: A Novel by Steven Pressfield and commented:

    Excellent novel by Pressfield.

  8. On Apr 27 2017 Tim Bowler read Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan and commented:

    A great read

  9. On Apr 27 2017 Tim Bowler read The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by Rupert Smith and commented:

    A thoughtful book about what modern warfare means today, and the problems and issues it throws up for commanders

  10. On Apr 27 2017 Tim Bowler read Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield and commented:

    An excellent worm's eye fictional reconstruction of what it might have been like to be in a hoplite phalanx

  11. On Apr 26 2017 Jason Kristufek read Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer
  12. On Apr 26 2017 Jason Kristufek read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  13. On Apr 26 2017 Jason Kristufek read @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris
  14. On Apr 24 2017 kcholbert (USAF) read Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  15. On Apr 23 2017 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Body Language by Julius Fast and commented:

    This book didn't seem to overreach, e.g., it said "sometimes crossed arms are just because it's a cold day."