Small Wars: a wide reading list
Moderator's Note
Today I merged four other threads into this thread, which is one of the first ever threads (OK 75th). There are a number of similar reading lists (my search term today) which are more specialist: amphibious operations, advisers and the elusive General Mattis reading list. I am sure other lists exist, e.g. Searching for first hand accounts of UW:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4613 (ends).
What are you reading in regards to Small Wars? It doesn't necessarily have to be a narrow list focusing on Small Wars either, feel free to list anything that might bring more applicable knowledge to warfare.
The Elaine Grossman book list is good a place to start.
Some of the following authors are mentioned in the above list.
Ralph Peter's essays and books.
Chapter Ten in Colin Gray's 'Modern Strategy' covers Small War theory and practice.
Thomas X. Hammes 'The Sling and The Stone'.
H. John Poole's works.
Max Boot's 'The Savage Wars of Peace'.
'The Geography of Thought' by Richard Nisbett covers the Social psychological differences between Asian and Western thinking.
India's version of Machiavelli: Kautilya's Arthasastra.
See my post on reference listings
See my post on Military History.
I am a fan of both Les Grau and Tim Thomas. Both offer truly valuable insights into the cultural manifestations in the small wars of the USSR and now Russia.
For Latino and Caribbean basin watchers, look at the work Larry Yates did for CSI on the DomRep and Panama.
Somalia see Larry Yates and Bon Baumann, again CSI.
On the Middle East, George Gawrych at CSI. George (now at Baylor) and I team taught Middle East military history in the mid-1980s.
Scott McMichael's study on light infantry covers Malaysia and is excellent, again CSI.
On Africa, I have 2 books on the Congo on the CSI site: LP14 on the Dragon Operations in the Congo in 1964; and a study on the Shaba II War in Zaire in 1978. Dave Dillegge will be loading a chapter from my memoirs, Journey into Darkness: Genocide in Rwanda, here next month.
You can also find some classics like TE Lawrence and Duffer's Drift on the CSI site.
A 2013 working link:http://regimentalrogue.tripod.com/du...fers_Drift.htm
Ralph Peters should stick to fiction. His analysis is unbalanced to say the least.
Best
Tom Odom