07-18-2005, 16:50
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Quiet Professional
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What Professional Journals/Magazines Do You Read?
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
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07-18-2005, 16:56
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Scientific American
Cooks Illustrated
Cuisine at Home
American Rifleman
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07-18-2005, 17:04
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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!) 
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07-18-2005, 17:06
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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.
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07-18-2005, 17:10
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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.
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07-18-2005, 17:22
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SWAT - they have really upped the quality of their staff.
Foreign Affairs
The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
Small Wars Journal on the net
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07-18-2005, 17:38
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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.
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07-19-2005, 00:50
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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
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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!
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07-19-2005, 00:54
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07-19-2005, 05:02
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Soldier of Fortune and anything with Boobies in it.
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07-19-2005, 13:13
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INFANTRY Magazine. It's not as esoteric as SPECIAL WARFARE....has practical tips.
https://www.infantry.army.mil/magazi...bscription.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...
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07-19-2005, 13:50
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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)
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07-23-2005, 22:47
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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.
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07-23-2005, 23:09
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Originally Posted by Books
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.
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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. 
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07-24-2005, 07:35
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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.
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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
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