05-29-2011, 10:29
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I'm done with "American Caesar" if anybody wants it...
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Long but a very good read. I finished it a few years ago. Douglas MacArthur was a very complex and interesting individual.
I'm reading FM 23-10 Sniper Training right now. What the heck, I begged our Bn schools NCO to get me a slot but was unsuccessful. There's a lot of good information in it and it's helped with my pastime of long distance shooting.
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05-29-2011, 20:35
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"Berg Heil"
History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
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05-29-2011, 22:52
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A good read for Memorial Day
Fallen Warriors: The West Point Class of 1964 by John F. Murray. It's an anthology of the 24 WP grads from the class of '64 who lost their lives in battle.
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05-30-2011, 19:27
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Manual of Physical Training, 1917 edition. It has added to it: "Lectures on the Organization of [B]Bayonet Fighting[/B]". Verrrrry interesting.
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05-30-2011, 20:28
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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
Manual of Physical Training, 1917 edition. It has added to it: "Lectures on the Organization of [B]Bayonet Fighting[/B]". Verrrrry interesting.
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The old Army manuals are fun to read. I think that some of them were even better prepared, written, and edited than some of the newer ones I've seen. After my father passed away I cleaned out his garage and in addition to some other treasures I found TM 5-460 Carpentry and Building Construction dated April 1960. After reading it I became convinced that I could probably frame a house after never having done so. The old military training films on You Tube are fun to watch too.
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06-07-2011, 15:31
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C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, The Rede Lecture, 1959 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961). The lecture, in PDF format, is available here.
Robert William Fogel, a prominent economist and historian, argues that this lecture was anticipated the "culture wars" of the twentieth century's last four decades.*
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* Robert William Fogel, "Lecture 1: Breaking Away from the Phillips Tradition," in his The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective, The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), pp. 20-21.
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06-07-2011, 16:00
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Across the Fence By John Stryker Meyer
Memoirs of SOG missions in 1968 from CCN. A well written account of brave men, incredibly risky missions. The courage and loyalty of the Kingbees and "little people" is also gut wrenching. Read in one sitting.
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06-10-2011, 12:22
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ABOUT FACE , By COL Hack.
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06-12-2011, 09:36
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No Angel by Jay Dobyns.
The firsthand account from the ATF agent who went undercover with the Hell's Angels.
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06-12-2011, 09:48
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The new Ranger Handbook
Yes, I need a life....
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06-12-2011, 11:11
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem; The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics; Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life; and the Stieg Larsson series.
On deck: Shibumi; Satori; Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life; and Notes of a Russian Sniper
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06-13-2011, 07:31
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay, 1851. The 100+ pages on the History vs myth of the Crusades makes this a worthwhile read.
Richard
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06-13-2011, 18:30
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Originally Posted by Sigaba
C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, The Rede Lecture, 1959 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961). The lecture, in PDF format, is available here.
Robert William Fogel, a prominent economist and historian, argues that this lecture was anticipated the "culture wars" of the twentieth century's last four decades.*
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* Robert William Fogel, "Lecture 1: Breaking Away from the Phillips Tradition," in his The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective, The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), pp. 20-21. |
Great find, Sigaba.
Skimmed it during available time.
Definitely going to bring the flash drive back and grab this one.
The observations at the beginning of the article were excellent.
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06-15-2011, 13:33
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The Profession by Steven Pressfield
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06-16-2011, 03:05
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Dead Ground - infiltrating the IRA, by Raymond Gilmour
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This is the story of a man who spent eight years as an undercover police agent inside the IRA. The account he provides of life with the Provisionals is of a dark and claustrophobic world, of an iron grip which they hold over their own communities - a grip as tight and vicious as any Mafia stranglehold - and of a ruthless and cynical disregard for human life. Gilmour tells of corruption and double-standards that see young volunteers knee-capped for petty theft, while the high-ups steal with impunity; and of the life of a man trapped in no-man's-land, in a dirty war in which both the IRA and the security forces exploit children trapped in dead-end estates.
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An interesting read, one good part was when they tried to hijack a car with an SAS man inside, you can guess how that went...
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