 | Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A. Nagl
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $8.29 Bottom up learning and innovation, or lose it all.
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 | The Search for Security: A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
Buy new: $79.95 / Used from: $24.17 The ultimate primer for smart people desiring to get it right.
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 | Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century by Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $4.44 We've got the wrong leaders, wrong strategy, and wrong military.
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 | The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World by Derek Leebaert
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $2.50 The Cost of Idiocy Part II.
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 | The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.32 The cost of sustained idiocy, Part I.
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 | The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.95 Get a brain, wage peace, there are not enough guns in the world to impose brutish will on all the people all the time.
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 | Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross
Buy new: $14.40 / Used from: $0.89 Intervention done badly makes it much worse.
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 | Uncomfortable Wars Revisited (International and Security Affairs Series) by John T. Fishel
Buy new: $36.76 / Used from: $28.49 Best current book on small wars and why we lose them.
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 | Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
Buy new: $14.46 / Used from: $0.01 When ideological fantasy shuts out informed intelligence....
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 | The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $2.16 The intellectual and spiritual brother in arms to the author of Soup with a Knife.
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 | Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods by H. John Poole
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.15 The author's ideas as seen from six inches above the deck.
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 | Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights by Douglas A. Macgregor
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $2.67 Serious books packed with substance--opposite of Rumsfeld.
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 | The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Buy new: $24.18 / Used from: $28.65 Minds, not technologies, start and carry out revolutions.
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 | Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security
Buy new: $37.50 / Used from: $17.71 Need a standing international peace force that is literate, can drive, and does preventive police intelligence.
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 | Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $3.49 Genocide happens because we choose to ignore it.
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 | The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.36 Together with Robert Young Pelton, one of the best reporters on reality.
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 | Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition (Robert Young Pelton the World's Most Dangerous Places) by Robert Young Pelton
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $2.80 War will come to you, you don't have to live there to be killed by it.
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 | The Quest For Viable Peace: International Intervention And Strategies For Conflict Transformation
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $8.97 U.S. Institute for Peace gets it, but is anyone listening?
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 | Environmental Security and Global Stability: Problems and Responses by Vice Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $32.89 The larger context for failed states and need for stabilization & reconstruction.
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 | House of War by James Carroll
Buy used from: $0.03 Coherent explanation of why a bad system overwhelms good people.
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 | The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.35 Best retrospective on DVD. Priceless. See my list of serious DVDs.
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 | Why We Fight
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.87 Useful understanding of what is wrong with the "American way of war."
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 | Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton
Buy used from: $3.46 How Spending on Private Military Corporations is Killing Coherent Campaigning
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 | Three Worlds Gone Mad: Dangerous Journeys through the War Zones of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific by Robert Young Pelton
Buy used from: $5.89 Read with Deliver Us From Evil. Large Scale Governments cannot do small-scale interventions intelligently.
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