Any recommendations for books about warfare?
>>8270494
Paradoxes of Defence by George Silver is a fun read
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/paradoxes.html
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>>8270494
>>8270494
Basics/Start here:
1)Sun Tzu - The Art of War
1b)Zhuge Liang's and Liu Ji - Commentaries on the Art of War
2)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War
3)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
4)Jomini - The Art of War
5)Clausewitz - On War
6)Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
Urban/Guerilla Warfare:
7)Che - Guerrilla Warfare
8)Mao - On Guerrilla Warfare
8b)Mao - Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan
9)David Kilcullen - Counterinsurgency
9b)David Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
10)IRA Green Book
10b)Patrick Pearse - Fianna Handbook
11)Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War
12)Max Boot - Invisible Armies
13)US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
14)Carlos Marighella - Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla
Scientific Approach/Analysis:
15)William Spaniel - Game Theory 101: The Rationality of War
15b)William Spaniel - Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook
16)Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
17)Lawrence Freedman - Strategy
18)Ed. Thomas J. Cutler - The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Strategy
19)Thesis: Military Intelligence in the New Zealand Land Wars, 1845-1864. - Clifford Roy Simons
Ancient Wars:
20)Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic War
21)Maurice - Strategikon (recommended twice)
22)Kautilya - Arthashastra (also largely economics)
23)Tucidides - The History of the Peloponnesian war (recommended thrice)
24)Xenophon - Cyropaedia
24b)Anabasis
25)Renatus - De Re Militari
26)Arrian - Campaigns of Alexander (recommended twice)
27)Asser - Life of King Alfred.
28)The Roots of Strategy series.
29)Ross Cowan - Roman Battle Tactics 109BC-313AD
30)Vita Karoli Magni
Modern Warfare (WW2 onwards):
31)Rommel - Infantry Attacks
32)Jünger - Storm of Steel
32b)Jünger - On Pain
33)Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes - Red Star Over The Pacific
34)David Evans & Mark Peattie - Kaigun
N/A:
35)Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership.
36)Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawerence
37)Learning to eat soup with a knife - John Nagl
>>8270494
Are there people who look at that picture and think to themselves, "whoa, that looks really cool"?
>>8270607
Wow, thank you very much.
>>8270494
Similar to "On War" is Antoine-Henri Jomini's "Art of War." Jomini was a successful Swiss officer under Napoleon and saw himself as a "rival" to Clausewitz. His work dominated American military thinking before the Civil War, mainly because one of the professors at West Point had translated it and then adopted it into his own "Elements of Military Art and Science." However nowadays Jomini is relatively only of interest to Napoleonic-ACW historians because his thinking wasn't adaptable to non-Napoleonic meatgrinders.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13549
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/civilwar/articles/militarytheory.aspx
and Gen. Halleck's book.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16170
War is a Racket by Smedley Butler.
