What are good sources for military history and theory?
I'm ask both due to curiosity and from a practical need (I have a project that must be coherent with facts, as opposed to the usual "fuck history, this looks cool" approach).
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>>1374233
Asking*
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>>1374233
Read Jeremy Black
>>1374254
Probably better to start with The Face of Battle by John Keegan, but after Keegan, read Black
>>1374233
/his/
>>1374256
Keegan is fucking awful. I tried to read his On War but stopped when he started going on about how the samurai were the greatest warriors and the katana could slice steel beams in hafu.
>>1374336
The Face of Battle is a fine book, but yeah Keegan gets carried away sometimes.
Is "On War" by Clausewitz any good?
>>1374376
It's not a history book.
>>1374233
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>>1374330
>Military history
>Not history
>>1374233
>>1374376
Go for Clausewitz' On War. Pretty dry read with all the verbose words, but if you're looking not for the stuff such as battles and weapons and generals and all that "cool" shit, but instead stuff like how politics and war come hand in hand, how invasions and occupations should work, the aim of war and exertion for it, etc. The only downside is that it is pretty hard to read, there's so much words that could have been summed up in a few, and some are completely unnecessary. Maybe it's just my case.
Thucydides - The Peloponessian War
Julius Caesar - The Gallic War
Polybius - The Histories
>>1374254
>>1374254
>Jeremy "let me tell you all about the Chinese military revolution and Eurocentric military history" black
>>1374256
john keegan is good but pretty dated
>>1374376
carl von Clausewitz for modern military theory and strategy
I would recommend:
Hew Strachan "European armies and the conduct of war"
and
Michael Howard "war in European history
