1. On May 07 2017 Tom Copeland (USCG) read Deception in War: The Art of the Bluff, the Value of Deceit, and the Most Thrilling Episodes of Cunning in Military History, from the Trojan Horse to the Gulf War by Jon Latimer and commented:

    There was an interesting bit in here about how the point of deception is to make your enemy do something, not think something. That is, you want the enemy to leave a point unguarded, or to move troops somewhere, or something. So the operational commander needs to tell the deception group what he wants the enemy to do, and the deception lead needs to figure out what to make the enemy think so that they'll do that.

  2. On May 06 2017 kcholbert (USAF) read The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
  3. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
  4. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
  5. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen
  6. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John A. Nagl and commented:

    2006

  7. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula
  8. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
  9. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  10. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Killer Angels: A Novel by Michael Shaara and commented:

    1994

  11. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War by Stephen Crane and commented:

    1992

  12. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  13. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army by Greg Jaffe
  14. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read The Mask of Command by John Keegan
  15. On May 05 2017 dugnforthunt (USN) read Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton - Cia's Master Spy Hunter by Tom Mangold