I have been reading everything I can about the Korean War and have this in my Amazon cart for 10/2. From the Amazon Description: On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by…
Category: Book Suggestions
Military History: How The Ghost of Tradition Inspired Ancient Military Might
Podcast #231: How the Ghosts of Tradition Inspired Ancient Military Might (click on the link above to be re-directed to source page and podcast) I have this very book in my “To Read” List so when I saw the author on this podcast I jumped. It is just under an hour, but well worth…
10 Obscure “Must Read” Military History Books
The British Way in Counter-insurgency, 1945-1967 by David French Westmoreland’s War by Gregg Daddis The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam by Andrew Bacevich Quartered Safe Out Here by George Macdonald Fraser The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan The Counterinsurgency Era by Douglas Blaufarb Modern Warfare: A Study of Men, Weapons…
Strategic Outpost Summer Reading List
Out of all the listings below, I would highly recommend War Stories From the Future…some really good reading there. Also If you have not read it already, do yourself a favor and read Ghost Fleet by August Cole and PJ Singer ASAP…arguably one of the best books I have read this year so far. -SF…
History of Guerilla Warfare Book Suggestion
I came across this book, Secret Commandos, Behind Enemy Lines With the Elite Warriors of SOG a while back after I read Plaster’s Ultimate Sniper book. A friend had told me Plaster had another book about his days in MAC-V-SOG and it was really good. Intrigued, I ordered it from Amazon. I think I burned…
Espionage Books Worth A Damn: The New Spymasters
The New Spymasters: inside espionage from the Cold War to global terror, by Stephen Grey Despite the continuing value of intelligence methods like telecommunication interception and satellite imagery, when operating against a shadowy terrorist group—especially one hiding within a civilian population—one of the best sources an intelligence organisation can have is a trusted insider who’s…
Military History Book’s Worth A Damn: Pumpkinflowers
Matti Friedman, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story (Algonquin Books, 2016). Iraq veterans finally have their book; a manuscript that really deals with the whole of the Iraq experience. After over a decade at war in Iraq, we now have the best first-person account, not only of fighting against the insurgency, but also what it felt like to come…
Curio and Relic Firearms Book Review: M91/30 Rifles & M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945
The full title is actually (deep breath) M91/30 Rifles and M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945: Accessories and Devices – History of Production, Development, and Maintenance, by Alexander Yuschenko and translated into English by Ryan Elliot. I saw this book mentioned a few weeks ago on a firearms discussion board, and figured I ought to get a copy,…
Book Review: Playing to the Edge, American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
by Michael V. Hayden Penguin, 448 pp When Michael Hayden was a young air force officer in the 1980s, the military stationed him as an intelligence attaché in Bulgaria. There, the man who would rise to the top of the American intelligence community in the post–September 11 era lived under constant surveillance: he and his…
Historical Fiction Book of The Month: The Revenant
Picador Publishing, 272pp I have been interested in the history of Mountain Men, the Old West and the American Indian since I was a kid. I remember watching movies such as the original Man in the Wilderness (Based on the life of Hugh Glass), The Mountain Men, Jeremiah Johnson and Death Hunt with my dad and…