{"id":18301,"date":"2016-08-10T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=18301"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T12:59:49","slug":"10-obscure-must-read-military-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/10-obscure-must-read-military-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Obscure &#8220;Must Read&#8221; Military History Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18302\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/hellfighters.jpg\" alt=\"hellfighters\" width=\"450\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The British Way in Counter-insurgency, 1945-1967 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by David French<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Westmoreland\u2019s War\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Gregg Daddis<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam <\/strong><\/em>by Andrew Bacevich<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Quartered Safe Out Here <\/strong><\/em>by George Macdonald Fraser<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0The Wizards of Armageddon <\/strong><\/em>by Fred Kaplan<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Counterinsurgency Era<\/strong><\/em> by Douglas Blaufarb<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Modern Warfare: A Study of Men, Weapons and Theories <\/strong><\/em>by Sheldon Bidwell<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Learning to Forget: U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> by David Fitzgerald<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reconsidering the American Way of War <\/strong><\/em>by\u00a0Antulio J. Echevarria<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Art of War in World History\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by\u00a0Gerard Chaliand<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This list was created by<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/history.tamu.edu\/faculty\/linn.shtml\">Brian Linn, <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Professor of History at Texas A&amp;M University and can be found in it&#8217;s complete unabridged form at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/07\/28\/expert-picks-ten-books-on-military-history-that-should-be-better-known-2\/\">Best Defense<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The British Way in Counter-insurgency, 1945-1967 \u00a0by David French Westmoreland\u2019s War\u00a0by Gregg Daddis The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam by Andrew Bacevich Quartered Safe Out Here by George Macdonald Fraser \u00a0The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan The Counterinsurgency Era by Douglas Blaufarb Modern Warfare: A Study of Men, Weapons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[932,1427,4634],"tags":[1955,13259,7348],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}