Retiring after 21 years in the US Army, here are books I recommend to the junior soldiers in my field for professional development.
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How everything became war and the military became everything by Rosa Brooks
The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers …
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Black Hawk down by Mark Bowden
5 stars
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market …
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Generation kill by Evan Wright
5 stars
They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes.
Within hours of 9/11, America's …
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Fault Lines by Kevin Michael Kruse
"In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social …
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Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
4 stars
Although Rudyard Kipling is chiefly remembered as the author of such classicsas Kim and The Jungle Book, he was …
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Cordelia's honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
An omnibus reprint containing Shards of Honor and Barrayar.
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
4 stars
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe …
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You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
4 stars
An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same …
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Outlaw platoon by Sean Parnell
4 stars
A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a …
