History, Security & Military Lists discussion

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Warrior Ethos, War, and Strategy

Gates of Fire, Stephen Pressfield
Once an Eagle, Anton Myrer
Warrior Politics, Robert Kaplan
Profession of Arms, Sir John Winthrop Hackett
The Soldier and the State, Samuel J. Huntington
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlin
The American Way of War, Russell F. Weigley
War Made New, Max Boot
A History of Warfare, John Keegan
War in European History, Michael Howard
Art of War, Sun Tzu
Strategy, B.H. Liddel Hart
America’s First Battles, Charles E. Heller and William A. Stoft
Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger
The Shield of Achilles, Philip Bobbitt

Long War and Counterinsurgency

The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
Ghost Wars, Stephen Coll
Inside Al Qaeda, Rohan Gunaratna
Blood from Stones, Douglas Farah
Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias, R. Shultz And Andrea Dew
War for Muslim Minds, Giles Keppel
The Assassins’ Gate, George Packer
Cradle of Conflict, Michael Knights
Imperial Grunts, Robert Kaplan
The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot
The Sling and the Stone, Thomas X. Hammes
War of the Flea, Robert Taber
War in the Shadows, Robert Asprey
On Guerrilla Warfare, Mao Tse-Tung
America and Guerrilla Warfare, Anthony James Joes
U.S. Army Coin and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976, Andy Birtle

Post–Vietnam to Long War

The Nightingale’s Song, Robert Timberg
The Prodigal Soldiers, James Kitfield
Savage Peace, Dan Bolger
Blackhawk Down, Mark Bowden
Crusade, Rick Atkinson

Vietnam

Summons of the Trumpet, Dave Palmer
Fields of Fire, James Webb
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, H. Moore And J. Galloway
The Army and Vietnam, Andrew Krepinevich
A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
Dereliction of Duty, H.R. Mcmaster
A Better War, Lewis Sorley
The Long Gray Line, Rick Atkinson

Korea, Indochina, and Algeria

This Kind of War, T.R. Fehrenbach
The Centurions, Jean Larteguy
Street Without Joy, Bernard Fall
The Two Vietnams, Bernard Fall
A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Horne

World Wars

Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, William Shirer
An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson
A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan
Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose
History of The Second World War, John Keegan
Defeat into Victory, William Slim
Eagle Against the Sun, Ronald Specter
Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
The General, C.S. Forrester

Philippine War, Boer War, and Sudan

The Philippine War, 1899-1902, Brian Mccallister Linn
The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham
The River War, Winston Churchill

Civil War and Indian Wars

A Stillness at Appomatox, Bruce Catton
Battle Cry of Freedom, James Mcpherson
Frontiersmen In Blue, Robert Utley
Frontier Regulars, Robert Utley

Revolutionary War

The War for America, Piers Macksey
The War of American Independence, Don Higginbotham
1776, David Mccullough

Other

Carnage and Culture, Victor David Hanson
The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman
The Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

Doctrine

The Evolution of Us Tactical Doctrine 1946-1976, Robert Doughty
FM 1, The Army
FM 3-0, Operations
FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations

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