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As the discussions regarding China, Military Affairs, Globalization, Redneck Engineering, and the like attest, this board is peopled with some pretty smart, pretty educated folks. I know we're not a tweedy jacket with elbow patches crowd, but you've got to work a bit to get the point where you can contribute on that level. So. . .
My questions are, "What magazines or journals to you read?" "How do you keep up on these topics?"
I myself subscribe to Foriegn Affairs, Harpers, and Running. My wife gets the Atlantic Monthy. At work I read the local dailies. Online, I sometimes read the Economist, the National Review, the Nation, the Weekly Standard (or I get the paper version from my Granddad).
I'm a voracious reader of whatever I can get my hands on from the library too - mostly small unit military, covert operations history, SF history stuff. . .
I'm trying to put together a reliable reading list and would appreciate any and all contributions.
Thanks in advance!
Books
Team Sergeant
07-18-2005, 17:56
Scientific American
Cooks Illustrated
Cuisine at Home
American Rifleman
Roguish Lawyer
07-18-2005, 18:04
In print?
Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal newspaper)
American Banker
Corporate Legal Times
American Lawyer
miscellaneous legal newsletters
I get the American Rifleman too. (Life member!) :)
Thanks TS for being the first one out of the gate. My Granddad made me a junior NRA member when I was about 7 and I got the AR regularly from then until I was about 13 or so. . . it's good to get 'em young. Books.
American Rifleman
Air & Space
Front Sight (USPSA)
On Target (USA Shooting)
American Hunter
Popular Mechanics
Gourmet (I think this one expired)
Field & Stream
Outdoor Life
I usually glance through Shotgun News and Small Arms Review on a monthly basis either at work or at the bookstore.
Not exactly professional Journals, but they work for my purposes.
NousDefionsDoc
07-18-2005, 18:22
SWAT - they have really upped the quality of their staff.
Foreign Affairs
The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
Small Wars Journal on the net
Just checked out Small Wars Journal on the net. Looks good. Clicked on the Reading list and was pleasantly suprised to see titles that seemed both substantial and practical. Should keep me busy for a while.
Kahuku Saint
07-19-2005, 01:50
In print:
The New York Times
The Washington Post (National Weekly Edition)
The Guardian (UK)
The Economist
Jane's Intelligence Review
Foreign Affairs
Internationale Politik
The Wilson Quaterly
Smithsonian Magazine
Gourmet
The Nation
Parameters
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There's more, but they aren't site related. As it is, I try not to "read" anything online aside from the assorted message boards I frequent. It hurts my eyes, and my eyesight is bad enough as is. There's definitely something gained by having it in your hand IMO. Plus student discounts are great!
-KS
I drink half a bottle of Scotch and find some angle.
zeroalpha
07-19-2005, 06:02
Soldier of Fortune and anything with Boobies in it.
Warrior-Mentor
07-19-2005, 14:13
INFANTRY Magazine. It's not as esoteric as SPECIAL WARFARE....has practical tips.
https://www.infantry.army.mil/magazine/content/subscription.htm
Since LKS is adding everything, here's my additions:
The Drop (Life member)
Forbes
Entrepreneur
Writer's Digest
Maxim
Ever read or heard a short story called "The Strangest Secret"?
It boils down to "we become what we think about."
I thought about SF for a long time before actually completing all the training and becoming a Team Leader and now a BTDT (I like that better than Former Action Guy).
Will be interesting to see where we are after 10 years of reading our chosen rags...
Professional Surveyor
Journal of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Point of Beginning
Nevada Traverses
Journal of Land Development
and of course, American Hunter (Life Member, also)
The Drop (Life Member there, too)
Military Officer (another Life Membership)
Is anyone familiar with "Behind the Lines - The Journal of US Military Special Operations"? I found a subscription ad for this publication in a 1997 issue of Vietnam magazine. I am curious as to whether it was substantial or not.
Just checked out Small Wars Journal on the net. Looks good. Clicked on the Reading list and was pleasantly suprised to see titles that seemed both substantial and practical. Should keep me busy for a while.
I can't remember who posted a link here to SWJ, but I am glad they did. My computer is in storage and I have many, many links to blogs and other military sites. Well SWJ has them all, while also linking to stories concerning Iraq, Afghaistan, the GWOT, and every continent on Earth.
Of course who can go without the Norte Dame "Blue and Gold" monthly. :lifter
The Reaper
07-24-2005, 08:35
Is anyone familiar with "Behind the Lines - The Journal of US Military Special Operations"? I found a subscription ad for this publication in a 1997 issue of Vietnam magazine. I am curious as to whether it was substantial or not.
I believe that is the USSOCOM published periodical.
Given that, it is a decent magazine subject to the same pressures as most service publications.
TR
Utne Reader
Mother Jones
The Nation
...NOT!
More like:
National Review
The Economist (online)
WSJ (online)
NYT (online)
Men's Journal
Fortune
Gray's Sporting Journal
Trip_Wire (RIP)
07-24-2005, 12:36
The "Drop." :munchin
Team Sergeant
07-24-2005, 17:26
Utne Reader
Mother Jones
The Nation
...NOT!
More like:
National Review
The Economist (online)
WSJ (online)
NYT (online)
Men's Journal
Fortune
Gray's Sporting Journal
Hang up the NYT and read the FT, IIRC it was voted the best or one of the best in the world for news.
alphamale
07-24-2005, 19:50
Hang up the NYT and read the FT, IIRC it was voted the best or one of the best in the world for news.Definitely best rag to read on an airplane. I make XY summer house guests clean my guns on old FT's. :lifter
FrontSight
I make XY summer house guests clean my guns on old FT's.so, what's your reading list like...? make XY summer house guests clean my guns ...right...
Jack Moroney (RIP)
07-24-2005, 20:39
Definitely best rag to read on an airplane. I make XY summer house guests clean my guns on old FT's. :lifter
FrontSight
Interesting array of personal cosmetics on your vanity thumbnail there :D
Hang up the NYT and read the FT, IIRC it was voted the best or one of the best in the world for news.
Agreed in re: the FT, although I do enjoy the NYT for movie reviews and Friedman's column, though.
Bill Harsey
07-24-2005, 21:53
Scientific American (subscription)
American Handgunner
Blade
Tactical Knives
About that first periodical, I had a gentleman in here a few weeks ago who was a career metallurgist that co-authored an article in it about the re-discovery of the indian wootz steel process. Wootz was the original source of true Damascus steel.
Any other publications, I forward to Jack Moroney for his review.
I am not a dit dah but enjoy reading Monitoring Times.
BMT
Ambush Master
07-25-2005, 06:37
Aviation Week & Space Technology (The Pentagon refers to it as Aviation Leak)
Air & Space
Popular Mechanics
American Rifleman
Jack Moroney (RIP)
07-25-2005, 07:45
Any other publications, I forward to Jack Moroney for his review.
I was wondering where that periodical on the care, feeding, management, and marginalization of XX knife makers came from. :D
Pharmaceutical Representative.
Doc
Bill Harsey
07-25-2005, 22:18
I forgot two others,
Science News and Cabelas.
alphamale
07-25-2005, 23:57
I was wondering where that periodical on the care, feeding, management, and marginalization of XX knife makers came from. :DSir Jack, I heard that!!! :fswhip:
Mr. Harsey is writing that periodical as he goes, and he's gettin' wayyyyyyyyyyy too much help !!! ::sniff::
On the other hand, however, I feel line #2 below would be the more accurate periodical title, with line #3 as a subtitle.
FrontSight
Roycroft201
07-26-2005, 00:31
It's interesting that a number of folks here read Foreign Affairs. ( Including the People's Medic !)
Well here are mine, FWIW:
1) Amateur Pharmacology; wooooops, sorry, old High School "unofficial" publication :o
2) SOF
3) Police Product News
4) Vietnam
5) SGN
6) Small Arms Review
I found this link to an Army website that collects various articles from a ton of defense journals. Bummer that there's only so much time in the day.
http://www.army.mil/professionalwriting/
Thanks also to everyone who threw in their contributions.
Books
A little late jumping in, but....
New Yorker
Atlantic
Harper's
Economist
(all subscription)
Jane's Defense Monthly
(school can afford the subscription)
BBC site
CNN site
(online every day)
Too busy working to get much else in. :(
Airbornelawyer
08-04-2005, 10:37
Jane's Defense Monthly
(school can afford the subscription)Jane's Defense Weekly. Get to the library more often. :D
JDW is more technology/industry-focused. JIR, already mentioned, is better for open-source intel/analysis of various crisis areas, units and the like.
IDR is the other good one from Jane's, but it is even more industry-focused.
I tend to rely more heavily on online sources of late, but I think this has made me dumber. You can skim a wider variety of sources, but you lose something in terms of depth of analysis.
Kahuku Saint
08-04-2005, 11:19
Jane's Defense Weekly. Get to the library more often. :D
Or your local Barnes & Noble or Borders if you don't have a real bookstore down there. ;)
IDR is the other good one from Jane's, but it is even more industry-focused.
I like IDR, but can't personally justify the nine hundred-odd dollars it would run for two magazines. I picked up JIR on a lark with part of my tax refund; as it stands, I spend more than enough on books and periodicals right now.
I tend to rely more heavily on online sources of late, but I think this has made me dumber. You can skim a wider variety of sources, but you lose something in terms of depth of analysis.
I agree. Online sources are both a boon and a curse, but I guess it all depends on your purpose at the moment. I find this to be especially frustrating in my journalism career; as everybody rushes to be the first with the story, there's little to no fact checking. Somebody sees it on the web and they run with it.
EchoSixMike
08-18-2005, 16:21
I subscribe to:
American Rifleman
Small Arms Review
Handloader (going downhill since Ross Seyfried left, I'm going to let it expire)
Rifle (same as Handloader)
Shooting Times
I try to read these as often as possible:
Chicago Tribune (to keep tabs on the enemy)
Marine Corps Gazette
The WSJ
Proceedings
All the Janes stuff I used to read online, was best part of having an Intellink account IMO ;)
Armada (continental version of Janes)
Shotgun News
Gun List
PC magazine
Gourmet
Armor magazine
Infantry
Eagle, Globe and Blockhouse(USMC Field Artillery service pub)
Precision Shooter (way too benchrest anal, but has some useful stuff to gleen)
Popular Mechanics
Lots of formerly useful paper periodicals have been supplanted by the internet. S/F....Ken M