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I have a book on my reading list (for class) titled Hanoi's War by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen that I will get to in a couple of weeks. I'm excited about reading this one.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. - Louis Veuillot
Hanoi's War is a superb book.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
The Whole Heart of Tao by John Bright Fey
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Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975 translated by Merle Pribbenow
review - air and space power journal
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Crazy From The Heat by David Lee Roth
review - publisher's weekly
interview - vhlinks
video
and so little time to read .
Wrong turn by Col Gian Gentile
The end of history and the last men by Francis Fukuyama
The soldier and the state by Samuel P Huntington
The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency by Paul B Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds)
The latest edition of The Journal of Military Operations (a big praise for that one)
The latest Edition of The Military Review
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L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace. (Napoleon)
It's always easier to ask for forgiveness than permisson.
I just finished War on the Waters by McPherson. It is a short history of two navies in the Civil War. It is a good overall narrative of the war on the salt and fresh water and does a good job of showing how important those operations were to the overall war effort, especially the huge and critically important contribution the Union Navy made to the defeat of the CSA.
One thing of interest from the small war point of view is the problem the Federal forces had in protecting their river supply lines from Confederate irregular forces. The rivers could be considered the MSRs of their day-MSR Tennessee and MSR Cumberland so to speak-and the steamers plying them were subject to attack via field artillery and small arms from the shore. What the Union Navy did was to arm and armor (lightly armored , hence 'tinclads') other river steamers and use them for convoy escort and patrol. An example tactic cited was a column of cargo steamers on its way with a number of tinclads interspersed. That sounds familiar.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Waters-Con.../dp/B0093A42XY
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
Transforming Command by Eitan Shimar-
Focuses on Mission Command in theory and practice within the historical lens...held by American, British, and Israeli frames.
Bookmarks