 | Team Yankee by Harold Coyle
Buy used from: $0.01 Ultimate tanker book! Very fast read...maybe 3-4 hours of solid reading
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 | About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Colonel David H. Hackworth
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $0.01 Once you get over that Hack was full of himself, this is a good firsthand account of command from platoon to brigade level.
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 | The Arabs by David Lamb
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $1.28 If you've never dealt with Arabs in the middle east, this will open up your eyes.
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 | Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $1.94 Self-explanitory.
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 | Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series) by Bernard B. Fall
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.95 If you ever wanted to know how we ended up there...
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 | From Pusan to Panmunjom: Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea's First Four-Star General by Gen. Paik Sun Yup
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $4.05 Best Korean War book I have read. Do not read "This Kind of War," read this.
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 | Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'este
Buy new: $15.12 / Used from: $3.95 The best biography I have ever read.
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 | Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $18.52 US Grant was a genius, with Patton, they represent the best in general officer leadership.
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 | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.31 Named after Assassin Company 4-64 AR (now D/4-64 AR). This is not about the military aspect of the war, this is political and good way to understand why I've spent more time in Iraq than in the US since March 2003.
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 | Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Defending the U.S. Homeland (CSIS) by Anthony H. Cordesman
Buy new: $69.95 / Used from: $11.23 Cordesman is the authority.
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 | National Response Plan (NRP) Full Plan with All Annexes for Emergency Support Functions and Incidents Biological, Catastrophic, Cyber, Nuclear, Oil and Hazardous Materials, Terrorism (Ring-bound) by U.S. Government
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 | Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.50 Good look into the psyche of these folks. Shocking to learn that they have families, advanced degrees, and are very well off and productive members of their societies.
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 | The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan by Avigdor Kahalani
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $12.82 Another classic tanker book that reads very fast. Also a good baseline for understanding how to fight Arabs.
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 | The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics) by Julius Caesar
Buy new: $7.92 / Used from: $1.49 The original war book.
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 | The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.90 Kagan's classic, a must read.
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 | For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States by Allan Millett and Peter Maslowski
Buy used from: $1.05 OK, so Millett was one of my professors at Ohio State. Irregardless, this is a great catch all book of American Military history and policy. Also on CSA's reading list.
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