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Just starting "Restless Empire - A Historical Atlas of Russia". Will see how it goes .
I've added this to my reading list. Thanks!
"Systems of Denial: Strategic Resistance to Military Innovation," from this quarter's Naval War College Review.
Not a short read at 22 pages plus footnotes - still worth your time.
Not a short read at 22 pages plus footnotes - still worth your time.
As I suspected, I AM a unique snowflake.
Picked this (@war) up last weekend. It's a pretty quick read (~250 pages of text). It presents a somewhat surprising level of detail/info. Some precent discussion concerning private/civilian "hack back" ethics and legality.
It's been out for a little over a year and now in paperback.
It's been out for a little over a year and now in paperback.
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About 25 pages into this one and so far it's very good. Horne's writing style (unsurprisingly) is dense - lots of long verbose passive voice sentences. It doesn't look like it'll be a quick read, but should be good.
Picked this up at Barnes and Noble tonight, 20% off and another 10% with membership, less than $20 for new release hardback.
Picked this up at Barnes and Noble tonight, 20% off and another 10% with membership, less than $20 for new release hardback.
My beef with Team of Teams and much of Gen McChrystal's whole pitch is: well of course you were able to do remarkable things with extremely motivated, hand selected individuals with a unlimited resources. It doesn't make it any less impressive, but it does limit the portability of the message.
Got this for Christmas and started it last week. So far it's a pretty good read - has some great history regarding the developments of air combat and has some great accounts of the Second Gulf War.
Good pont - and I agree. As part of our elective concentration, one of McChrystals prior SEAL's, now working for "CrossLead" came and spoke to us about the company and his operational experience. The pitch about complicated versus complex problems and the way they talk about networks was informative. However, we brought up the difference between what he had to work with and what the average organization has to work with wrt human capital. Lots of pearls to take away from the book and what CrossLead consulting does, but you can't ignore the baseline level of competence you are starting with.
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Right now I'm about 2/3 through Witness by Whittaker Chambers. This is an excellent story and really an eye opener for those unaware of Soviet espionage.
A couple of historical fiction novels for thought provoking reading.
For those of us who came in during the Cold War - this was what we dreaded but had to prepare for:
The Third World War: August 1985 by General Sir John Winthrop Hackett (Commander, British Army of the Rhine)
Early in 1977 a retired NATO general called together six of his collegues--including an admiral, an airman, an economist and a diplomat--to write a dramatized game-plan for the next world war. A sensational international bestseller, it is a vivid, detailed, and often blood-curdling on-the-spot report from the battle fronts of a "real war", from tank assaults to air clashes to ICBM launchings, based on an insider's knowledge of weaponry and actual NATO and Soviet battle strategies. In the light of changes in Eastern Europe the question now is: Could it ever have happened? Could it ever happen again?
A refresher for those who have forgotten about the Fulda Gap and the Russian Tank Armies (not tank brigades or tank divisions but entire tank armies in East Germany) from the National Interest - http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-nato-expected-lose-most-europe-russia-15267
If the above was the danger of conventional warfare, asymmetrical warfare is shown below:
One Second After by William R. Forstchen, PhD
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP)
For those of us who came in during the Cold War - this was what we dreaded but had to prepare for:
The Third World War: August 1985 by General Sir John Winthrop Hackett (Commander, British Army of the Rhine)
Early in 1977 a retired NATO general called together six of his collegues--including an admiral, an airman, an economist and a diplomat--to write a dramatized game-plan for the next world war. A sensational international bestseller, it is a vivid, detailed, and often blood-curdling on-the-spot report from the battle fronts of a "real war", from tank assaults to air clashes to ICBM launchings, based on an insider's knowledge of weaponry and actual NATO and Soviet battle strategies. In the light of changes in Eastern Europe the question now is: Could it ever have happened? Could it ever happen again?
A refresher for those who have forgotten about the Fulda Gap and the Russian Tank Armies (not tank brigades or tank divisions but entire tank armies in East Germany) from the National Interest - http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-nato-expected-lose-most-europe-russia-15267
If the above was the danger of conventional warfare, asymmetrical warfare is shown below:
One Second After by William R. Forstchen, PhD
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP)
