02-18-2005, 21:55
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Special Operations, Insurgency & UW Reading List
I'm trying to put various links I've pulled together in one place. This is not too well-organized at this point, but getting them in one place is a start. As a start, all of the links below are from official sources (CGSC's Combined Arms Research Library, the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, National Defense University, U.S. Army Center of Military History, etc.). I will add more as I have time, and feel free to add your own.
General: World War Two: Other conflicts/contingencies: - My Clan Against the World: U.S. and Coalition Forces in Somalia, 1972-1994 - PDF
- Invasion, Intervention, "Intervasion": A Concise History of the U.S. Army in Operation Uphold Democracy
- Not War, But Like War. The American Intervention in Lebanon
- Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978
- Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964 - 1965
- Power Pack: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965 - 1966
- The U.S. Intervention in Lebanon, 1958: A Commander’s Reminiscence
- Scenes From an Unfinished War: Low-Intensity Conflict-Korea, 1966-1969
- Russian-Soviet Unconventional Wars in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan
- The Ute Campaign of 1879: A Study in the Use of the Military Instrument
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02-18-2005, 22:07
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Good gouge AL. Thanks
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02-18-2005, 22:12
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Thank you for starting this. Have you read any of this stuff? If so, what do you recommend? Also interested in the thoughts of others.
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02-18-2005, 22:48
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Thank you for starting this. Have you read any of this stuff? If so, what do you recommend? Also interested in the thoughts of others.
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Most of these are straightforward general histories or case studies.
Col. Trinquier's book ( Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency) has been discussed in another thread. He purported to write a general study, but while not a prisoner of his particular experiences (the FFI, Indochina and Algeria), he was definitely influenced by them.
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02-18-2005, 23:42
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looks promising...
i was going to read the article on Somalia, figured i might be able to provide a bit of perspective as i was the PSYOP detachment commander there from December 1992 into March 1993 (when i got pulled to go back to Saudi)...but alas and alack, i cannot get the PDF file to download...
i was able to access the article on the Ute campaign...that could be very interesting...i believe the Utes were the last major tribe to accept life on the reservation...they resisted until after WW1...'Posey's War' is recognized by many to be the last skirmish of the Indian wars, althought it was basically a bit of rustling gone awry...
i plan on reading as many of these as my LYB will allow...this weekend, i'll be dragged off to Big Pine, California so she can weave baskets with Indians...
i plan on hiking in Death Valley or something...maybe i can print one of these out and take it with me...
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02-18-2005, 23:50
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What the hell is going on here? Is Guy like an SF light bulb? Or maybe I am? LMAO
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There is free alcohol in LA if you can get here. And next week is a particularly good week, I think.
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02-19-2005, 07:36
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02-19-2005, 07:59
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I maintain a directory that might be of use here at the Small Wars Journal - go to the Reference Library.
Every Sunday I post (on the blog) an updated word document suitable for downloading as a desktop reference or e-mailing other researchers / operators. This document contains links to all the material on research and reference pages.
Hope this is of use here.
As an introduction, I am a retired Marine who now works urban ops and Small Wars issues for the Corps at Quantico. I found this site by back tracing a link - have placed Professional Soldiers as a Military Community of Interest link on my site.
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02-19-2005, 10:21
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La????
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LKsteve:
There is free alcohol in LA if you can get here. And next week is a particularly good week, I think.
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mother in law lives in Orange County...toooooo close...i'll be in Big Pine tommorrow...that's more or less in the middle...and i'll be in Vegas the middle of next month for a conference...
next time my wife threatens to go to LA, i might tag along, though...
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02-19-2005, 15:34
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Hope this is of use here.
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Absolutely. Thank you and welcome to the Board.
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02-20-2005, 18:16
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I maintain a directory that might be of use here at the Small Wars Journal - go to the Reference Library.
Every Sunday I post (on the blog) an updated word document suitable for downloading as a desktop reference or e-mailing other researchers / operators. This document contains links to all the material on research and reference pages.
Hope this is of use here.
As an introduction, I am a retired Marine who now works urban ops and Small Wars issues for the Corps at Quantico. I found this site by back tracing a link - have placed Professional Soldiers as a Military Community of Interest link on my site.
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Welcome aboard. Good job.
Thanks for putting our link up as well.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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02-21-2005, 02:28
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Welcome aboard. Good job.
Thanks for putting our link up as well.
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Thanks much and my pleasure linking to this site. From what I have seen so far it is indeed a "professional soldier" community... Of course I say oorah while many here probably say hooah;-)
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02-21-2005, 10:46
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oorah?
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... Of course I say oorah while many here probably say hooah
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speech impediment, huh?
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02-21-2005, 16:22
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speech impediment, huh?
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Touche, good one...
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02-21-2005, 17:33
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the problem with C&GSC articles...
is that they read like something written by a major bored out of his gourd...but never the less, i have read and reread the article about the Ute uprising of 1879...my sysnopsis? the more things change, the more things don't...
the never-ending predicament of the US Army seems summed up in the prologue...
"The study chronicles the Army's role in the struggle between two cultures...it serves to illuminate the problems of utilizing the military instrument in an environment of transitory national policies and competing national and local interests..." when the politicians can't get it right, the Army does make a convenient scapegoat...and if military force isn't the right approach...well, there you go...
not a bad read, but it seemed like Deja Vu all over again...constraining the Army to forts (or was that strategic hamlets), appointing indian agents who knew nothing of the culture (or was that Bob Gosende?) and commentary that post Civil War (or was that Cold War) politics played a clear role in defining the military strategy followed (did i hear someone say 'our enemy is instability' or am i just having bad memories)...
what the article told me is that before the post Vietnam draw down, before the post Cold War draw down, before there were sky marshals and border observation posts in Texas, the Army has had to adapt to missions other than war for political expediency and self-preservation...
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