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Just finished Silence Was A Weapon by Stuart Herrington and will likely begin Phoenix: Birds of Prey by Mark Moyar, and Pacification by Richard Hunt tomorrow. Any other ones I should definitely read...

World War Z was awesome. I haven't read any of Brooks' other stuff, but I hear it is good as well. Suffice to say I am rather glad the zombie apocalypse hasn't occurred yet. A big plus for this book...

You should definitely start a thread just for this as there will undoubtedly be plenty of suggestions. Do check out the Small Wars Library and the US Armed Forces reading lists also.

I was very surprised that he made it almost to the end of the essay before mentioning Marx.

I'm not really a huge fan of reading fiction for philosophy, as you often have to wade though a whole bunch of nonsense to elicit a view that in any case isn't explicitly spelled out. Her nonfiction...

Ayn is a bit of a crazy person, but can (sometimes) be fun to read nonetheless. The recent book of her Q&As was particularly interesting to me. You should check it out if you are interested in some...

You dirty dirty realist.

Now reading After Hegemony, Nagel's the Sling and the Stone, and Xenophon's Anabasis

That sounds like a fantastic idea in my opinion. I have zero experience in this as well, but my first inclination would be to speak with some of the larger (or smaller) defense contractors like...

I will probably finish War of the Flea tonight (thought it was pretty good) and just picked up Max Boot's "War Made New." Anybody read the latter?

I love it so far. Socrates is hilarious.

Sounds like an interesting book I will have to check it out.

I'm now reading Plato's Republic (don't know how I avoided it for this long) and Wilson's Ghost by McNamara and James Blight.

I think we have to make arguments that they would allow AQ back in, not the other way around. They were kicked out in 2001 because of AQ and Mullah Omar has suggested (I'll see if I can find a source...

They already have a safe-haven in FATA anyhow (as safe as AQ can be anyhow). It is good to note that Afghanistan controlled by the Afghan Taliban probably will not allow AQ to set up shop again, but...

How else could they do it? Missiles are too inaccurate without going nuclear, and land forces are certainly not able to hit it. The centrifuges at Natanz are under something like 25ft of soil and...

I agree about the US, but not Israel. The only scenario I can imagine that would lead to a strike against Iran by Israel is one aimed at their nuclear facilities. Israel cannot mount a conventional...

It isn't to threaten the US itself, but it would be possible to use the weapon against an invading force. That is certainly a deterrent. They don't have to achieve parity to deter an invasion, just...

Best movie ever.

I agree. There is basically 0% chance that Iran will first strike Israel, doing so would essentially be tantamount to suicide. Iran would be turned into glass. The Iranians may be able to escape...

Yes they would probably need to overfly Iraq. Even if they could somehow do it without US approval, I doubt very much that we would escape blame/retaliation. For a very detailed analysis of strike...

Shoot Sunburns and such at tankers

Public dissent within Iran vanishes.

Oh cool Zenpundit posts here. Love your blog. How is the Intelligence book so far? I read the hyper-long review essay you posted, and I am looking forward to reading it.

I am also now reading...

Foundation is awesome. I just read it about two weeks ago.

Just finished "Man, the State, and War" by Waltz and am now reading Mearsheimer's "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and Robert Pape's "Bombing to Win." Hooray for IR theory eh?