Small Wars: a wide reading list

[Martin]

Hailer Publishing specializes in reprinting out of print Military books, specifically those recommended by knowledgeable people.

Martin

[Strickland]

War for Muslim Minds by Giles Kepel

[Stu-6]

I can’t believe that About Face by David Hackworth isn’t on the list.

[Stratiotes]

More from a polical level approach than to military but still a good look at how to improve the military ability with the proper resources:

_A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review?_ by Chester W. Richards
ISBN: 1932019014

For the OODA section alone:
_The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security_ by Grant Hammond
ISBN 158834178X

[zenpundit]

Jihad by Kepel

[GorTex6]

Maybe we should have read this one:

Resource Wars

And what exactly is a small war?

War is a Racket(MOH recipient)

(Did I make it on some"watch list")

[Mike in Hilo]

Government and Revolution in Viet Nam, by Dennis Duncanson, Oxford University Press, 1968. The best there is among the histories of VN. A must read. Unparalleled in depth of scholarship and far more critical in its analysis than popular works such as those of Fitzgerald and Karnow. The author argues that two deeply rooted traditions have clashed throughout VN's history of two millenia--(1)an autocratic center (legacy of Confucian China); and (2)the centrifugal forces of village autonomy, local warlordism and a penchant for cultism/violent secret societies. Hence, the nascent Viet Minh and VC were sustained not by a surfeit of French or Diemist autocracy (as often misdiagnosed by Americans), but rather, were nurtured under conditions that constrained a weak center from extending its power into the villages and hamlets.
Duncanson served with Thompson, both in Malaya and for several years on the UK Advisory Mission to RVN, and acknowledges weaving Thompson's and their colleagues' thinking into the fabric of this book. Provides insights that only an insider can.