What are you reading now...?

[CA_TacMedic]

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
Dick Couch.

So far a good read. Much like Mr. Couch's other books. Very thorough and easy to read and follow. Not done yet, but so far a great read and one more good book from Dick Couch.

Wallace

[SF_BHT]

Just finished "HARD MEASURES" by Jose Rodriguez.

Great read.

[ZonieDiver]

For the umpteenth time, I am trying to wade through Salt, A World History
by Mark Kurlansky.

It is very informative, but it is written in a manner I find extremely difficult to follow. I am picking portions I like and reading them. I hope to finish by next year!

I also was given How To Write a Children's Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling.

I like it, and it should be helpful for my new, next career!

[MR2]

Just finished listening to Rommel: Leadership Lessons from the Desert Fox - Charles Messenger (Tom Weiner) (2012)

Interesting biography on this combat leader with occasional comments comparing leadership principles in the first Gulf War. Covers his military career during WWI, the interwar years, the Ardennes campaign, N.Africa, Italy, and the Atlantic wall.


Starting Heaven Is for Real - Todd Burpo & Lynn Vincent (Dean Gallagher) (2011) and Outrage: How Gay Activists and Liberal Judges Are Trashing Democracy to Redefine Marriage - Peter Sprigg (2004)

[JYD73]

"Whisky Tango Foxtrot" by Lynne M. Black Jr.

Excellent book written by a SOG warrior

[Rob_Frey]

"Beyond Band of Brothers" by Major Dick Winters.

[South Paw]

I'm currently reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemmingway and Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara

[hooah12]

Currently reading The Night Stalkers and See No Evil

[akv]

Ubiquity - Mark Buchanan

[Unapologetic Soldier]

I’m currently reading Taliban by Ahmed Rashid.

Great book and I’m learning a lot; although it’s something I’ll have to go back and read again. There is a lot of detail and I have to re read large portions of it to keep up. Reads more like a history book than anything else.

In the past I have read

Chosen Soldier by Dick Chouch
Inside Delta Force by Eric Hany
Get selected for Special Forces by MAJ Joe Martin

All great reads with my favorite being Chosen Soldier.
Not sure what my next read will be; probably something I’ll find off this thread.

[Richard]

Hogan, Jackie. Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America. Rowman & Littlefield; Lanham, Md; 2011.

[R3V3LATIONS]

Fearless - Eric Blehm, just finished this one...it was a good read.

[Badger52]

COL Shackleton's un-redacted treatise on the Village Defense Program at Buon Enao. A phenomenal piece of history, but there is a very elegant economy of word. It needs to be read.

[ScubaNinja]

After being a student of military history for many years, and from my own experiences in war it seems to me that our greatest enemies are often our own chain of command's instead the enemy we're supposed to be fighting. Thoughts, anyone... Anyways....

Currently reading Horse Soldiers about the first soldiers(who happen to be special forces) in Afghanistan. Obviously an amazing topic, but I don't like the way the book is written just yet. I think good military books should accomplish one of several things. Give good historical information, an overview of the conflict, sum-up the issue at hand, or make you feel like your there with the soldiers, this book does none of the above IMHO.

Just finished reading The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm, and Hero by Michael Korda. They are about the SF soldiers who fought with Hamid Karzai, and a biography of none other than TE Lawrence, respectively. Both amazing must read books for any SF or would be SF guy.

Next up is a biography on Teddy Roosevelt, then Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare. Then after I will treat myself to book 4 of Game of Thrones

[craigepo]

Just read "The Soul of Battle" by Victor Davis Hanson. In-depth look at how three generals from different time periods took armies from democratic societies and used them to conquer tyranny/slavery (Patton, Sherman, and Epaminondas).

An interesting snip from the book:
"The great danger of the present age is that democracy may never again marshal the will to march against and ultimately destroy evil. In the era of television, the image of war's brutality in our living rooms may stop the attack; the education system of the present, with its interest in self-esteem, sensitivity, and the therapeutic, may not turn out sufficiently idiosyncratic, audacious-and well-read-leaders; and instant communications may serve to bridle a mobile column at its moment of victor. But even a greater peril still in present-day democratic society is that we may simply have forgotten that there finally must be a choice between good and evil, that the real immorality is not the use of great force to inflict punishment, but, as the Greeks remind us, the failure to exercise moral authority at all. When men like Epaminondas, Sherman, and Patton go to war to stop evil and to save lives, there is a soul to their battle that lives on well after they are gone.
This tradition of democracy's mustering quickly huge armies, to be led by eccentric fighters, on a moral trek into the heart of slavery, is not the stuff of romance and it is not a fantasy from our past, but rather a rare and hallowed tradition as old as the beginning of the West itself. In the West epic marches for freedom across time and space have liberated us from our own worst enemies. Armies of liberation are the precious dividends of democracy, and we abandon the memory of Epaminondas, Sherman, and Patton and what their hoplites, Westerners, and GIs did only at our great peril."