1. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Strategy in the Missile Age by Bernard Brodie
  2. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The U.S. Army and the Korean War: South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu by Roy E. Appleman
  3. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War by Robert Scales
  4. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina by Bernard B. Fall
  5. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
  6. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  7. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 by Edward M. Coffman
  8. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 by Rick Atkinson
  9. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
  10. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
  11. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War by Gerald Linderman
  12. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle by Ardant du Picq
  13. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt and commented:

    Fascinating book, especially the first half.

  14. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read The Killer Angels: A Novel by Michael Shaara
  15. On Feb 21 2017 ralston read Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War by Stephen Crane