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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
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bookreader has read:

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

WAR by Sebastian Junger

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis

A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer

The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1776 by David McCullough

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

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