There are a lot of great ones out there, but four that come to mind that I found to be particularly interesting are:
---"The Wars of Afghanistan" by Peter Tomsen
---"Afghanistan: A Culturual...
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There are a lot of great ones out there, but four that come to mind that I found to be particularly interesting are:
---"The Wars of Afghanistan" by Peter Tomsen
---"Afghanistan: A Culturual...
For several years now, many Marines and Soldiers alike have bemoaned the lack of combined arms training that is occurring in our regular training cycles. This is certainly disconcerting since we all...
I finished my MA in the UW/SOLIC concentration from AMU a few years ago, and like most in this thread who have studied with AMU, I was pleased with the quality of the program. I started with AMU in...
He instructed me as well for AMU's UW seminar a couple of years ago. Definitely a solid instructor; I learned a good deal from him, and he made the class really interesting. He also developed a...
While this report is tremendously informative, I also am not sure what Gen McCaffrey is referring to when he states that USSOCOM directs SOF in Afg. I think that both HQ USSOCOM and the SOF in...
Xenophon, absolutely on target with the before op music selections. However, my before op and after op selections were identical--country makes me break out in hives. :) Tough to ever beat...
For those who are interested, Fred Kagan at AEI published his latest Iraq report entitled "Iraq The Way Ahead (Phase IV)" yesterday (24 MAR 08) at this link:
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This is obviously a loaded question. Like most who contribute to this site, I’ve spent the better part of my career studying and occasionally participating in actions that many would classify as...
---The Irony of "Small" Wars: They're Not Just for the Military to Execute
---Are Small Wars Any More "Political" Than Conventional Wars?
---AS/D SOLIC: The Case for a Similar Arm within Each...
Here are three that I found to be tremendous reads:
1. "Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill" by Jessica Stern
2. "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Daniel Benjamin and Steven...
Gotta go with Gian P. Gentile over Rank Amateur on this one. Dylan is better solely if you're in the dentist's office, riding an elevator, or in the frozen foods section of Publix. Tough to go...
Well, this is a Small Wars site, so here goes:
-Nathaniel Greene
-Simon Bolivar
-Spartacus
-William Wallace & Robert the Bruce
-Jose Francisco de San Martin
-Duke of Wellington (in Iberian...
I’d like to add my two cents’ worth to this debate if I may. At the risk of sounding overly pedantic, it seems to me that lost amid the din of the highly charged debates and arguments about “the...
I recently finished Michael Oren's "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776-Present" and highly recommend it. Currently, I'm just now finishing up John Ferling's "Almost A...