06-01-2009, 20:15
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No Warriors, No Glory - Harold Coyle.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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06-01-2009, 21:22
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#242
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Horse Soldiers
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06-02-2009, 16:02
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Just got my wisdom teeth yanked on Monday, after coming out of the drug daze I started on Horse Soldiers hope to knock it out in the next couple of days, great book so far.
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06-03-2009, 09:15
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"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
- Carl von Clausewitz
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06-11-2009, 09:58
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The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk.
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06-11-2009, 18:17
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Afghanistan & the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare by Hy Rothstein
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06-12-2009, 23:02
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Guerrilla
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The Accidental Guerilla - Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, David Kilcullen
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06-13-2009, 22:09
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SF Candidate
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Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk..... im half way into it an just begining to figure out what its about
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06-15-2009, 07:22
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THE BUSH WAR IN RHODESIA - The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist. By Dennis Croukamp
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06-16-2009, 13:58
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The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS in Their Own Words by Gordon Stevens
Very interesting book as it is told directly by the Originals. I sometime wished they got more into details about certain situations but the book had to cover a 3-year span so they were not able to develop everything without having a 500 pages book. I was very surprised to see how things turned out in their very first mission and the fact they were allowed ("allowed" may not be the best way to describe it) to keep on in spite of it. Good read.
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06-18-2009, 17:12
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North American Indians in the Great War by Susan Applegate Krouse, 2007, Univ. of Nebraska Press
Based on unpublished research done on Indian veterans in the 20s by Dr. Joseph Dixon.
An excerpt from the interview with Sam Thundercloud, a Winnebago, from Wisconsin
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I went over the top three times at the battle of Chateau Thierry before the last scouting trip in which I had engagedin this battle.
Lieut. Burton sent me out on every scouting mission. We knew how to crawl and do the job.
I recall distinctly one night we were ordered out over the top, the night was very dark, the morning was coming but it was still to dark to see much. We climbed an embankment, on the top of which, we found railroad tracks. On the other side of the tracks the Germans were hiding, one big fellow jumped at me, made a lunge with his bayonet. I warded off the thrust as I would in boxing. His bayonet made a gash in my hand...and as I tossed aside his bayonet, I thrust mine through his neck - a short fat Dutchman (common term for German) came for me but my comrades finished him and we went on over.
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And another from Edmund Veach, a Choctaw
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It was a pretty good war, but they stopped it too soon.
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And lastly from Sgt. Jamers Crowe, Sioux, from Pine Ridge, SD.
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When I face a big tall Hun. Made him throw up his hand. I intended to shoot him down and scalp him but my friends said let him go. So I let him go free. We sent them back to our lines.
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The patriotism and devotion these men showed for a government that had treated them like dirt and a country who would not recognize them as citizens was amazing.
They were also first class soldiers and serious ass-kicking warriors.
Make me look at the crossed arrows a little differently and with a little more pride maybe.
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06-18-2009, 17:18
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The so-called 'Code Talkers' for the Army in Europe for both wars were Comanche - guess they never received the recognition the Navajos did for the Marines because the Army doesn't assign a PR team (photog and reporter) to a squad like the Marines seem to do.  
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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06-18-2009, 17:23
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The so-called 'Code Talkers' for the Army in Europe for both wars were Comanche - guess they never received the recognition the Navajos did for the Marines because the Army doesn't assign a PR team (photog and reporter) to a squad like the Marines seem to do.
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06-27-2009, 05:50
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Documents in World History Vol 1 - The Great Traditions: From ancient Times to 1500; Stearns, Gosch, and Greshaber, eds.
White Supremacists - Contemporary Issues Companion; Regine Heberlein, ed.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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06-27-2009, 08:23
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Just finished Horse Soldiers and now reading Cobra II, The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and GEN Bernard Trainor.
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