What are you reading now...?

[afchic]

Originally Posted by Dozer523

Night by Elie Wiesel
Move over Anne Frank. You have nothing on this 15 YO.

Dawn is an interesting read as well.

[Guy]

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

Harry Markopolos

No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few actually know how Markopolos and his team-affectionately called "The Fox Hounds" by Markopolos himself, uncovered what Madoff was doing years before this financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no one listened, until the damage of the world's largest financial fraud ever was irreversible.

Stay safe.

[DRock310]

Recently read:
Nagl's "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife,"
"War of the Flea" by Robert Taber,
and "Guerilla Warfare" by Che Guevara.

Just finished "Insurgency and Terrorism" by Bard E. O'Neill.

Concurrently reading RAND's study on COIN via my Kindle.

And of course, studying FMs 6-50 and 6-40.

If anyone has any other suggestions on where to start for an insurgency/COIN novice that aren't already in some of the threads on here it'd be much appreciated.

Just bought a book from the above aforementioned author. Very good book, entitled "Whisky Tango Foxtrot" which anybody should recognize the three intials of the book. WTF. Real good book and very interesting. Definately required reading on SOG during the Vietnam War.

Mark

Oh, and by the way. John "Styker" Meyers has a new book coming out anytime now. It is the same book he has released within the last year or so. Just this one has more pictures and more missions. I believe it will be around $29.00.

Mark

[charlietwo]

Just reread "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. Inspiring book to say the least!

Also, 8 books into one of my secret pleasures -- "Forgotten Realms" books with Drizzt Do'Urden Like Lord of the Rings, only simpler and entertaining. The main character is a great example of leadership though.

[R3V3LATIONS]

Reading two books at the Moment:

The Mission, the Men and Me - Pete Blaber
Change your Brain, Change your Life - numerous psychologists

Both are stimulating and contain much educational value so far.

[f50lrrp]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

I finished 'Blackjack-33' by James Donahue. It's about 5th Group's 'Mobile Guerrilla Force' in RVN. I've read 2 of his other books. All are good reads.

I served in ther "3rd Mobile Strike Force" that took the place of the "Mobile Guerrilla Force"

[akv]

Dersu the Trapper by VK Arseniev

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by f50lrrp

I served in ther "3rd Mobile Strike Force" that took the place of the "Mobile Guerrilla Force"

[Sigaba]

Re-reading Edward S. Miller, War Plan ORANGE: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. A close friend sent me a new copy and recommended that I take another look at it.

I'm glad he did--I missed a significant aspect of the work's historiographical and contemporaneous contexts the first time around.

[shooter_250]

just finished re-re-re-re-reading.."Reflections of a Warrior" by MOH winner Frank D.Miller...a great humble hero

just started re-re-re-re-reading book 1 ing the LRP trilogy by Gary Linderer..."The Eyes of the Eagle"

my 2nd standby book is.."Last of the Mohicans"...by James Fenimore Cooper

my 1st is,,,"Atlas Shrugged"..by Ayn Rand

[WholeManin2010]

Leadership and Training for the Fight by MSG (ret.) Paul Howe at night and on days off, and rereading Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine De Saint Exupéry at lunch and on the throne.

[219seminole]

Fighter Pilot, the Memoirs of BG Robin Olds. While it covers his long life, most importantly this is a book about combat leadership.

Robin Olds was probably best USAF fighter wing commander of the VN war. He was a dynamic leader who made the 8th Tac Fighter Wing, at Ubon, second to none, and himself flew 152 missions. I served in the 8TFW after Olds time, but he had made his mark before he left in 1967.

In his memoir, published after his death in 2007, he made frequent mention of extensive pre-mission work in the wing intel shop. In the summer of 1971, Olds was USAF Directory of Safety at the IG, and I was at Ubon on the 1800-0600 shift in the 8TFW intel shop doing post-mission debriefs. Due to bad wx not much was flying that night and I had little work. Around midnight a face appeared in the door and it was BG Robin Olds, coming around see what was happening in intel. If it had been Santa Claus himself I could not have been more surprised or pleased. He was legendary and the few minutes I spent with him are burned into my memory.

All I am sure all of us who have come into contact with true combat leaders will recognize those qualities that made those leaders great. Very quickly I could see those qualities in BG Olds and if he had said, "Follow me", I would have without question.

He was a commander who understood the importance of NCOs in the scheme of things. He would frequently go to the NCO club, buy the beer, and listen.

His memoirs are a good read, covering WWII and VN. Good accounts of shooting down Germans, and of strikes into the North. Good humor, frustrations with HQs and Pentagon, etc.

[MK262MOD1]

In the last three days I finished

Animal Farm by Orwell

The Emma Gees by McBride

A Rifleman went to War by McBride

Honorable Men by Bill Colby

The Frontiersman by Echardt

I have read them all before and this was a reread.

[Richard]

Infanterie Greift an von Irwin Rommel. Da ist mein Deutsch ein wenig eingerostet, bin ich mir Zeit es zu lesen. Mein Kopie wurde mir von einem BW Offizier, als ich war der Besuch der NATO CIMIC Kurs in Hammelburg gegeben.