Is military history literature's comfiest and most hidden treasure?
So hidden nobody wants to reply to this thread
SGM Eric Haney wrote a book about his time in a counter-terror unit that while being alternating flavors of hilarious and sad, remains through and through 'comfy'.
the thin red line
naked and the dead
are all I have read. the naked and the dead sucked harddd
Viper Pilot by Dan Hampton is great. The guy was a F-16 Wild Weasel pilot (WWs are the airplanes tasked with destroying enemy air defenses) in Desert Storm and OIF, and was also a combat training instructor. So probably one of the top F-16 pilots in the US military before he retired.
plebs pls
>>7854211
>>7854588
It doesn't really matter if it's outdated or not, the book was and is hugely influential.
Nobody here is actually going to war, so it doesn't matter in the slightest how applicable any of the information in the literature is.
shoot yaself you dumb weeb
>>7853836
I don't understand the question,
But the book was miles better than the film.
I am glad I read the book, because if the film came out before I read this, I would have skipped it.
And that explains a lot about the American mindset, the movie was pretty propaganda.
Millions more Americans will watch the movie who won't read the book, which had at least 20% less 'AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!' and 20% more about the Somalian experience.
>>7854588
you're supposed to start with it, along with art of war and other such classics, it's basically the greeks of military literature
after you move onto boyd and other more modern writers
http://www.slideshare.net/noobgank/patterns-of-conflict
I mean you want to understand war right? Not get some pseudo.entertaining narrative of it
>>7854211
>He reads the Michael Howard translation
What is modean war?
>>7856028
>Er sieht auf andere herab wenn sie den "falschen" Übersetzer lesen, obwohl er selbst kein Deutsch kann
>>7853836
That's a funny way to spell; We Were Soliders Once...And Young
>>7853836
Yeah, and it also shows you how much damage has been done to Western lit by academia.
>>7854671
Speak for yourself.
While On War is definitely influential its basically Westphalian view of states is outdated. The DoD ties itself in knots trying to apply Clausewitz's concept of a center of gravity, in particular, to modern warfare.
>>7856028
As opposed to what? That's the version on the syllabus for JPME courses, which were put together by the NDU.
>>7857181
DoD is strugglig to apply pre-Iraq literature to its doctrine in an age where Global terrorism is the number one threat and states are moving away from convential warfare towards hybrid
For my student teaching I taught a cold war narratives class and everyone liked it so I'd say yeah from personal experience
yeah one of the best selling books of the last 20 years is a pretty hidden treasure
