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>>34737576
Death in the Long Grass. The tell all of a professional hunter in Africa and all the crazy shit he did.

>>34737576
Look up Max Boot he has three really good books

shaw's "fighter combat: tactics and maneuvering", i read it purely to play warthunder better because it's a very dry book, but it has some amusing quotes too:

>The Yo-Yo is very difficult to explain. It was first perfected by the well known Chinese fighter pilot Yo-Yo Noritake. He also found it difficult to explain, being quite devoid of English.
>Squadron Leader K. G. Holland, RAF Fighter Pilot

Is Infantry Tactics worth reading? I'm not a Wehraboo, but it gets brought up alot.

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Homage to Catalonia: by George Orwell

Good book about the Spanish civil war from the perspective of both an international brigadier and an anarchist. Goes into good detail about how the various republican factions fucked each other over, as well as the character of the republican side throughout the war. Well done battle scenes as well, all taken from orwells experiences during the war.

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>>34737576
>US Army Ranger Handbook
Lot of good-to-know basic strategies and with some army protocols and roles.

>Infanterie Greift An (Infantry Attacks)
Written by Rommel, pretty good. Basically war strategies and tactics of infantry. Lot of it involves what Germans did best then, flanking.

>On War
By Carl von Clausewitz, discusses a huge variety of topics on and in war. Comes from the Napoleonic Era, so it has become a bit dated.

>Strength Training Anatomy
Name says it all.

>>34737675
Given how Rommel wasn't batshit insane n stupid like Hilter and well respected even by his enemies, not many would look down on you for reading it. It's worth a read.

>>34737991
>Infanterie Greift An (Infantry Attacks)
>Written by Rommel, pretty good. Basically war strategies and tactics of infantry. Lot of it involves what Germans did best then, flanking.

would you recommend it to an aspiring 2nd LT or should I stick to the ranger handbook for my bible?

I read Starship Troopers, 10/10 would recommend

>>34738029
This. Basically what it takes to be a marine, Star wars edition.

>>34738029
My only problem with it is that it finished
>you'll never remove bugs on alien planets with your top-tier dad to avenge the death of your mother

What is the best book you can get on practical, detailing hand-to-hand fighting?

I know you really can't learn from a book, but let's say you had a school teaching based on a given book's methodology, what book would be best?

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Something somewhat interesting.
My dad is offloading his old books and I found this.

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>>34739360
Let's take a look inside. Those dates are familiar...

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>>34739375
...

Eric Schlosser's Command and Control is bretty gud.

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>>34739390
A tactical survey of the German blitzkrieg stratagem from the perspective of a Czech, first published in 1942...

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>>34739422
And checked out frequently during the lead up to US direct action in Europe...

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>>34739443
Neat

With Napoleon's Guard in Russia: The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812, greatly interesting reading.

>>34738017
You should be well read on a variety of subjects as an officer and a gentleman.

>>34738703
The Gracie bjj books are illustrated extremely well, particularly Helio's submissions book.

The book by Renzo and John Danaher has a good amount of stand up stuff.

I refer you to these specifically because they are very well illustrated. Care was obviously given to staging the models so the details of technique are in full view. This is essential in books where the object is to learn some physical discipline.

I know
>navy seal writer

But I really enjoyed extreme ownership

Achtung Panzer, Knight's Cross

t. Not a wehraboo

>>34738017
Reading the classics is a way of developing a better understanding of modern convention. While TTPs and technology may be different today, the lessons learned by those of previous generations are valid, even if only to inform you on what not to do. At the very least it will broaden your knowledge of history, and the difficulties of developing effective strategy.

Quartered Safe Out Here: little-discussed theatre of ww2, highly bitchin group of people too

Victoria by William Lind is a tour-de-force, combining witty, subtle social commentary as well as butchering technocratic military sacred cows.

>>34739443
that's neat.

Bit more on the prepper and maybe /out/ side of things, but I recently dug out my old man's copies of the Foxfire books, or at least 1-3 and 8.

Apparently the guy that made them diddled a bunch of the students that gathered the material. Go figure.

>>34737576
All Quiet on the Western Front

Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer

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I had saved a pdf and deleted the link wondering if any k/ommandos might know or have read it since I'm trying to find it again.

The title was something along the lines of " Inner/Intra cities fighting in the 21centy" or something along those lines.
I'll drop some book collages in the meantime.

>The Right Kind of War by John McCormick
WWII pseudoautobiography about the authors experience with the Marine Corps Raiders

>Anything by Sebastian Junger

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>>34738017
Infantry attacks is good to just give you an accurate perspective of an infantry officer. In terms of teaching you infantry tactics, most of the stuff in it is obsolete, but it's a good start. Highly recommenced reading it.

It's different from other books by infantry commanders because he doesn't keep harping on about 'muh horrors of war'

I really enjoyed Rob K Browns I am Soldier of Fortune. Basically just his memoir of crazy military and paramilitary hijinks, but he claims a lot of pretty bold achievements. Outting a kgb operative in bangcock, harassing a soviet outpost with mujahideen, various spook friends he met in vietnam. Does anyone know if RKB is full of shit?
Otherwise a pretty fun read.

>>34739948
That's hot garbage anon.

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>>34737576
>pic related
Pretty good book, I enjoyed it.

>>34737614
kys faggot

>>34742556

I'm sure he's joking, there were some hilarious Victoria threads on here a little while ago

>light rail enthusiast

>>34738349
>>34738029
Reading pic related at present. It took me about five pages of tripping over the words before I realized the narrator was a slav and adopted the proper accent. It went smoothly then. Recommend me more Heinlein

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>>34743450
>tfw managed to forget pic like the phoneposting faggot I am

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>>34742324
Not sure of the title but David Kilcullen has had a lot to say on this in the last few years

you're not /k/ if you haven't read unintended consequences

American sniper

>>34743328
Why?

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>>34743450
>Recommend me more Heinlein

I can only recommend his work. The book you're reading now is one of his best.
Start with Douglas Adams, then go to Heinlein, transition to Haldeman and/or Scalzi & go back for Philip K. Dick.

>>34737991
God April Fool's was magical.

/pol/ and /mlp/, /fitlit/, /cock/... Forgot to check in on what the fuck World of Tanks did this year though, so missed out on that (moonball was the shit the year before)

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>>34744009
I'll check these papers out. This was a 300-400 page book in pdf. Thank you.

>>34744478
You forgot Vonnegut. Despite being in the assigned reading category, his books read EXACTLY like Adams'. It's basically just more hitchhikers, particularly Sirens of Titan. Anyone looking for more Adams should look there. Otherwise he's still a pretty fun read for the same reasons Adams is.

You managed to guess my recent sci-fi marathon progression pretty well though:
Hitchhikers, 20,000 leagues, Sirens of Titan, MiaHM. Throw the more /k/ Horse Soldiers in there because assigned for aviation security class.

All in all it's been pretty great, but I'm afraid 20,000 is a bit of a meme. I suppose it's responsible for the genre, and I like a lot of Verne's ideas and aesthetic, but the book is inescapably bland and gives the impression that it was written to be episodic. It reads almost like some kind of water Firefly, without all the intrigue and interesting, likable characters.
Horse Soldiers is a decent America fuck yeah probably exaggerated biography. For being long as fuck it's never really dry, but the writing sometimes seems a little sub-professional. Some of that may have been affectation on the part of the narrator; I audio booked that one. Also one
>clips
At the very end. 7/10 in all.

>>34745428
>You forgot Vonnegut.

People hyped me up about Vonnegut so much that I was let down when I finally read his stuff (started with Slapstick (or lonesome no more)).

>Slaughterhouse Five
It's a classic, also gives you perspective criticizing the allied bombing campaigns from an American POW along with other stories.

>Zero Footprint
Even though I'll never be sure how much if it is fact and fiction. Memoirs of an ex-SBS PMC doing operator shit with his friends.

>Red Platoon
COP Keating retold through the eyes of a MoH recipient. Shows how piss poor patrol base locations and leaving your rifle laying around have consequences, along with how ballsy some people are under fire.

>My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Underachieving skate punk decides to join the army after going dead end job to dead end job. Combat, controversy, and a memoir ensue. It's like Jarhead, only with more action and the author is hilarious as opposed to miserable.

Speaking of, has anyone read Baghdad Express? Sounds good, would appreciate opinions before I buy it.

Really enjoyed One Soldier's War. Really good book on the Chechen wars from a guy who fought in both. Some of the things that went down in Chechnya are just too fucked up for words.

>paying local kids a crate of flares for some weed

>>34745494
If you like Hitchhikers, read Sirens. Other than that I haven't read all that much Vonnegut. My next from him is going to be Galapagos

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>>34745641

guess they were well "lit"

>>34742381
when the flag is not
> BLACK
> WHITE
> RED

>>34737829
Fantastic book that. Orwell was really fucking interesting in general. Would reccomend Down and Out in Paris and London as well. From when he lived as a tramp.

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How does K clean their tea sets?

Bush War in Rhodesia by Dennis Croukamp.

Did a stint in the RLI, and a bunch of crazy shit in the Sealous Scouts. Tons of neat photos from the operations that he writes about. Pretty good companion book to Reid-Daly's memoirs about the scouts, which is a good read as well.

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>>34747345
Diesel bath, then drip dry

>>34743468
great book i'm halfway through it now. i had the exact same problem.