{"id":4201,"date":"2014-09-15T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2014-09-15T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:00:28","slug":"books-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/books-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/1-million.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4226\" src=\"http:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/1-million.jpg\" alt=\"1 million\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><a style=\"color:#ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Million-Steps-Marine-Platoon\/dp\/1400068746\/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=0V94Y7TGA6VYKBAVQZDZ\">One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 (Bing West)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a fan of West ever since I Read No True Glory. The guy gives it to you straight with no bullshit or fluff, if you want to know about War with a Marine Platoon, read this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Level-Zero-Heroes-Operations-Afghanistan\/dp\/1250030404\/ref=zg_bsnr_5011_10\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Level Zero Heroes: The Story of U.S. Marine Special Operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 (Michael Golembesky)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have always felt USMC FORECON has never got the credit and respect they deserve for the role they have played in the wars in A-Stan and Iraq..nice to see some Love coming their way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><a style=\"color:#ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gray-Work-LP-Confessions-Paramilitary\/dp\/0062326473\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=\">Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 (Jamie Smith)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who thought true espionage field-craft only got to be practiced by those &#8220;official&#8221; alphabet agencies, think again&#8230;.Get ready to jump down the rabbit hole with his one, because it is a ride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><a style=\"color:#ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1455582271\/ref=gno_cart_title_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER\">1<strong>3 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened at Benghazi<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span> <strong>(Mitchell Zuckoff and Annex Security Team)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did a post on this subject as it is near and dear to my heart&#8230;.Simply put, If you consider yourself an American Patriot, read this book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><a style=\"color:#ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Command-Authority-Jack-Ryan-Clancy\/dp\/0399160477\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1410735352&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=command+authority\"><strong>Command Authority<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><strong>(Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am what you call a Clancy &#8220;Purist&#8221;&#8230;.To me, nothing comes close to the old school, Military-Tech-Action genre that Clancy virtually created in the early eighties. Therefore, it has always been hard for me to accept any of his &#8220;newer&#8221; stuff, but this one blew me away! Talk about a book &#8220;torn right from the headlines&#8221; this is it!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War\u00a0 (Bing West) I am a fan of West ever since I Read No True Glory. The guy gives it to you straight with no bullshit or fluff, if you want to know about War with a Marine Platoon, read this. &nbsp; Level Zero Heroes: The Story&#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],"tags":[1099,1108,1109,1110,1111],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201"}],"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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}