04-26-2009, 16:34
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Currently Tucker, GA
Posts: 117
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"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Reality control in Newspeak. Geroge Orwell's 1984
I dug out my old copy I bought in 1974.
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04-27-2009, 05:57
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#227
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Asset
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: VA
Posts: 4
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Some interesting reads
The Devil We Know- Robert Baer: Interesting perspective on US/Iranian relations, oil, terrorism, etc. If you read Sleeping with the Devil you would enjoy this.
Killing Pablo- Mark Bowden: Very interesting account of Pablo Escobar
currently reading The World's Most Dangerous Places- Robert Pelton: I'm sure a lot of you have already at least glanced at this one but it seems like a pretty decent guide for any travel to the locations in the book.
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04-27-2009, 17:56
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#228
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More required reading....
First - The Party's Over; by Richard Heinberg -
This will polarize many who read it, but it will convince all your liberal friends that you know how to think.
Second - The Climb, by Anatoli Boukreev -
Lessons Learned, some good, some bad - all enlightning!
Third - The Jedburghs, by LTC Will Irwin (Ret.,) The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944
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04-28-2009, 05:30
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#229
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FTFSI
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: State of mind
Posts: 79
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-Invisible Resistance To Tyranny, by Jefferson Mack
On Deck:
-The Law, by Fredric Bastiat
-The Creature From Jeckyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin
And always an adventure novel in between.
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04-28-2009, 09:38
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Murrieta, CA
Posts: 316
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Making Patriots by Walter Berns. So far, I recommend it. He is a conservative academic (a rare breed) who writes on patriotism and the intentions of the founding fathers.
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04-30-2009, 16:59
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Asset
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: I'm currently stationed at Minot AFB
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My roommarte along with myself have picked up a very good workout and training book:
Training For Warriors: The Ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Workout
by Martin Rooney
It has a 8 week breakdown of a training course for you to take, and it would be best to work with a partner since you have to do numerous excerises with another person. So far we are in the begining of week 4 and we are still breaking a sweat, just when you think you are use to the regiment of the week, the next week comes and knocks you down a peg.
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05-03-2009, 18:06
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: People's Republic of Pineland
Posts: 94
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The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Peter Blaber. So far it's a good read.
I know it stirred some commotion here but, I recently finished Kill Bin Laden. It was also a good read.
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05-05-2009, 14:10
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Here/There
Posts: 7
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I am reading a few, a little at a time
Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh- I've already read several times. Kind of keeps my head out of the 'rat race' of life.
The Book by Alan Watts
The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama- listening to it on audio actually
Awakening the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
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"To be alive is the biggest fear humans have." -Don Miguel Ruiz
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05-06-2009, 13:40
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: The "Springs", CO
Posts: 71
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"On Killing": Lt. Col. Dave Grossman...great book. His DVD series is awesome too. Seems like it would be great required reading...
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05-06-2009, 19:55
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Fayettenam
Posts: 142
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Just finished Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
Currently reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkings, it is definitely a interesting read so far!
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05-07-2009, 10:47
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Okinawa Japan
Posts: 74
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Studying
Reading FM 3-24 for the second time
On Combat by LTC Grossman
On-Killing was an excellent book with an erudite perspective on the subject
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05-18-2009, 10:53
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Southern Mo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete S
Just picked up "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
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Pete,
I just finished "Atlas Shrugged". It was like a 1000 page reading endurance event. But, I believe that the book (or at least the cliff notes) should be required reading for all of us conservatives. Amazing that this is a 50-year-old book, but it so describes the looming socialism that we face today.
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05-21-2009, 10:37
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Asset
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: France
Posts: 16
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Just finished reading "Force Recon Command" by Alex Lee. It was interesting to have another perspective to some of the events I read about in Force Recon Diary 1969 by Bruce Norton. Both good books, I'll look into getting Force Recon Diary 1970 now.
I also started a french book about Indochine war. The author is a lieutenant deployed in Vietnam in 1950 with the mission of training and leading locals to fight against Vietminhs.
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05-21-2009, 14:43
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Area Commander
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,557
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Quote:
Originally Posted by noefexus
The Book by Alan Watts
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It will be worth your time to review a little biographical information on Alan Watts.
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06-01-2009, 20:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by STR8SHTR
The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Peter Blaber.
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Just finished it. I wish he had named the Deputy Commanding General. That man's name should be in some book, somewhere. 
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