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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.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
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Schmitty has read:

The Defense Of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan by Sean Parnell

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

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

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

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

My favorite book of all time.

Platoon Leader - A Memoir of Command in Combat by James McDonough

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer

Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer

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