Recommended reading?

Caesar's "Commentaries on the Gallic War" is good, but you need to read between the lines a bit in some places. The same goes for "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides.

>>31894959
Not really focused on military, but The Prince would be good idea.

>>31894959

Jomini's "Art of War"

Alfred Thayer Mahan's "Influence of Seapower Upon History"

Corbett's "Some Principles On Maritime Strategy"

>>31894959

Rommel's Infantry Attacks

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>>31894959
If you want WW1 reading:
"Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger
"Poilu" by Louis Barthas
"Now It Can Be Told" by Philip Gibbs
"The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman

>>31894959
On Killing and On Combat about psychologically preparing yourself.

>>31895456
2nd this.
Also, not really a book on historic military literature, but Grossman's "On Combat" & "On Killing" are excellent reads.

>>31894959

Strange Defeat.

>>31895456
Machiavelli wrote an 'art of war' as well, but there is alot of military related stuff in The Prince.

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>>31895711
Don't take Grossman too seriously. He's a big SLA Marshall supporter.

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>>31894959

mao wrote a book on guerrilla warfare during the war against the japanese. Fairly short but an interesting read:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_28.htm

>"Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan"

>To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan & to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command & general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company & battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces & rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat: casualties & death, adaptation, & survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency.

I believe that this was part of the do/k/ument torrent at one point. Pretty interesting read.

Recap and link to the pdf on forgotten weapons:
http://www.forgottenweapons.com/book-review-the-bear-went-over-the-mountain/

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https://www.amazon.com/Maurices-Strategikon-Handbook-Byzantine-Military/dp/0812217721

>>31894959

Learning To Eat Soup With a Knife - John Nagl

Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence

The Evolution of a Revolt - T.E. Lawrence

Revolt in the Desert - T.E. Lawrence

The Tanks of August - Collection of essays about the Russo-Georgian War in '08.

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>>31894959

While it may not be as applicable as most of these other suggestions Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering is a very good read.

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A Clockwork Orange