12-08-2008, 05:02
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1794: America, Its Army, and the Birth of a Nation
Dave R. Palmer
A very interesting read on the time between the Treaty of Paris and through the Constitutional Convention and how very close things came to being quite different.
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12-08-2008, 19:36
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The Mission, The Men & Me by Pete Blaber.
Pretty good read...one of those books I wish was around when I was a 2LT....
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12-09-2008, 07:55
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#108
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Bud Wilkinson, An Intimate Portrait of an American of an American Legend by Jay Wilkinson
I just started it yesterday...Boomer Sooner!
Colt Terry, Green Beret by Charles D Patton
Will be starting this ASAP.
2LT Terry was in Class # 2 of the SFQC (1952) and deployed to Germany in '53 with the 10th.
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12-09-2008, 09:25
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Currently reading "One Bullet Away" by Nate Fick and "Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy Seal" by Chuck Pfarrer
Coming up I would like to re-read "On Killing" and "On Combat" by Col. Dave Grossman as I have a differnet perspective now than I did when I first read them.
I am also trying to secure a Regimental copy of "The Bullet Proof Mind" books and DVD also by Grossman. I have heard great things about them.
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12-10-2008, 15:26
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
This is supposed to be a good book according to some friends on the raid--an updated version written by the pilot of Cherry-One (the lead MC-130E).
SECRET and DANGEROUS: Night of the Son Tay P.O.W. Raid
William A. Guenon, Jr.
http://www.sontayraid.com/#top
I haven't read it yet but it's on my Xmas wish list. 
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I ordered this book online today (I never could wait for Christmas!) and got a nice email from the author. He seems like a great guy, except for saying that "Dalton Fury's" book would be a "good read"! (But he's a FOG like me.) 
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12-10-2008, 15:41
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Marching Towards Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.
Michael F. Scheuer
Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership
Gary Berntsen
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12-12-2008, 08:19
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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield very good
Not a Good Day to Die, Naylor, forgot the first name
The Bible
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12-12-2008, 10:43
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Re: The Mission, the Men and Me by Pete Blaber
Highly recommend it, he's the same guy that was featured in Not a good day to die. His take on what really happened during operation Anaconda is much clearer than Sean Naylor's, and much more dynamic. The lessons in the book are what set it apart, (Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, terrorist planning, John Walker Lindy) all fascinating story's. I'm out now, but the lessons are just as valuable for life as they are combat.
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12-12-2008, 20:45
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Originally Posted by SRGross
Not a Good Day to Die, Naylor, forgot the first name
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Sean.
Anyone read Mission: Blacklist #1 yet?
http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Hussei.../dp/006171447X
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From Publishers Weekly
In 2003, Staff Sgt. Maddox was an army interrogation specialist on his first field assignment in Iraq gathering information on bad guys. The unexpectedly rapid collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime made that category a broad one. Sent to Tikrit, Saddams home town, Maddox found no system for screening detainees to identify priority targets. That began to change with one of Saddams bodyguards, Maddoxs first serious interrogation and the first step to Saddams capture. With freelance writer Seay (coauthor, Hello Charlie) providing the polish, Maddox takes readers through an intense multilevel series of question-and-answer games that led slowly, with many false starts and sidetracks, to Saddams hideout. Maddox makes no secret of his mistakes: losing his temper, failing to control interrogations, seeking information rather than cultivating insight. We weren't in the United States and my job wasn't to hand down justice, he writes. His account is a welcome corrective to lurid accounts of interrogation techniques, frequently secondhand. The capture of Saddam Hussein, like all good intelligence work, was 5% insight and 95% patience. Brutality, Maddox makes clear, was not merely counterproductive but unnecessary. 8 pages of color photos. (Dec. 13)
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12-15-2008, 02:49
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The Mission, The Men, And Me
Finished
Never Surrender by LTG William "Jerry" Boykin (ret)
Currently
The Mission, The Men, And Me by Peter Blaber
Next
Kill Bin Ladin by "Dalton Fury"
How To Break A Terrorist by Matthew Alexander
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12-15-2008, 11:19
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To anyone that has read the Rober Baer books on the CIA....
I recently finished "The CIA at War" by Ronald Kessler, which has a short segment about RB's behavior. I have read all of RB's works, enjoyed them all, but forgot my grain of salt and took them all as fact.
Kessler really puts emphasis on exactly how difficult of a job the CIA has, and how their successes are measured against their shortcomings. I found it an excellent rebuttal to much of Baer's work.
I'm reading currently "The Craft of Intelligence" by Dulles, and have found it very interesting. As it is published in 1963, a lot of the information is now outdated, but it is very neat to see how many things he correctly predicted about the future of intel.
At one point in the book, he talks about a "machine" that can sort through applicants looking for someone who is fluent in Swahili and French, over 35yo, not married, and under 5' 8''. It only took 40 seconds for his machine to complete the search! Blazing speed!
Also, intelligence operations from the Bible, middle ages, and early American history are discussed, providing excellent lines between how much and how little intelligence has changed. Although much of the book is spent talking about how to counter the Soviet threat, the lessons are easily applied to today's conflicts.
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12-23-2008, 17:21
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Finished
Never Surrender by LTG William "Jerry" Boykin (ret), got it signed
Gates Of Fire, also finished really enjoyed it
Reflections of a Warrior, By MoH CSM Frank Miller, another good read
Started
Two Wars, Nate Self US Army Ranger
Black hawk Down, Mark Bowen
On Killing, Lt Col Dav Grossman, I heard good things about this one
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12-23-2008, 17:27
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I Know.....I Know
Kill Bin Ladin by
Dalton Fury
The Mission, The Men, And Me
Pete Blaber
Finished On Killing by Grossman and read the article that was posted not long ago http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ad.php?t=20849
Have to agree with TR, really close to the same.
I've a copy of On Combat that I'm starting next week.
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12-23-2008, 18:17
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I've a copy of On Combat that I'm starting next week
I was thinking of picking it up, post your thoughts on it when you finish
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12-24-2008, 17:36
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Rereading The Ugly American after some 38 years. I'd forgotten what a good book it really is...especially for QPs.
Guy--you should read it; you'll identify many of the book's ' characters' among those with whom you currently have to mingle. 
Richard's $.02
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