What would /k/ recommend as a must-read regarding military tactics?

Read strategy. It's far more interesting and you'll get a real appreciation of what's at hand.

Reading about tactics without the structure of training is pointless, it's like reading instruction manuals without having the object in front of you.

I'm not sure about this one, but I did read a good chunk of 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene. It was a decent read.

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>>34784855
Sorry, came just here to take a look at the blondie.

The art of war, FM 7-8, any military nonfiction

>>34784855
sun tzu its a quick read,

read as much mil history as possible, especially from the losers perspective.

ceaser's letters are boring i've heard, but contain very good information.

basically look up any general after Thucydides whose works survived and it wont be a complete waste of time.

I liked Militant Tricks by Poole. He has done a few great books on asymmetric warfare tactics (more specifically, how to avoid the enemy using them on you)

>>34784855

On War by Clausewitz

>>34784855

As in "muh survival tactics"? Light infantry tactics. Ranger handbooks. Sniper & counter-sniper. Fieldcraft, Engineering. Check the FMs.

Disregard what >>34784865 said. There exists a reading list for the Australian Army on military strategy, it contains a good historical view on war and strategies. There's also academic papers collected into books that serve for the education of US officers and deal with all kinds of related incidents, such as urban warfare, etc.

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>>34785012
>ceaser's letters are boring i've heard, but contain very good information.
muh grain

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>>34784855
Have at it: http://stevespages.com/page7c.htm

>>34784855

Ender's Game

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>>34784855
how do i get a grill like this

>>34784927

tbqh this too

>>34787954

Once you can afford boats like the one she is standing in, such girls will come to you.

>>34788353
Negative, you just have to have confidence

>>34787913
Decent book, movie overemphasized the cuck aspect, and both could have done without the moralistic ending

>>34785545
Decent, but Machavelli was better

I recommend the Hagakure. After that you don't need to read anything else, but Infantry Attacks is a nice read.

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>>34784855
>>34784927
>>34787954
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>>34788353

I'm only in this thread for QTs

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>>34787954
Buy her fake tits and she'll fuck you just once, and fake an orgasm

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>>34784855

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>>34785545
Came here to post this.

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Ranger Handbook is a good overview see the Army FMs for detailed info

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>>34784855
It's not "how to tactics", but it's a relevant curated list.
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/105/105-1-1/index_2014.html

And a non-curated list full of incredibly useful works from the same source:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/105/105-1-1/index_2014.html

>>34787954
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2 work to better your self and your community
3 beware of golddiggers
4 lower your standards slightly and get a women worth your time that isn't just an instagram model
5 love her and cherish her always.

I cant suggest other than Art Of War.
But I can give some advice on medicine. Just remember MARCH
Deal with injuries with this accronym
Massive Bleeding
Airway
Respritory
Circulation
Head trauma

>>34790757
6 $25

Strategy / BH Liddell Hart
Influence of Sea Power / Mahan
Art of War / Sun Tzu
On War / Clausewitz
Infantry Attacks / Rommel
Devil of a Whipping / Babits

Last one is really, really good. If you want to see an individual engagement broken down one piece at a time, Babits does it beautifully. Also Cowpens is a ridiculous American victory so it's fun to read about.

I remember The Road to Guilford Courthouse being good as a campaign analysis, but its been forever since I read it (college). The Revolutionary War's southern theater is neat for the intersection of strategy and tactics in general.

Basically anything in-depth on Napoleon. Little fucker was amazing.

Not unit tactics or grand strategy per se but I just finished Sniping in France by Hesketh-Prichard and it's a wonderful little book. He skips nuts and bolts stuff occasionally (I wish he'd laid out lesson plans at First Army's school, etc) but he sets out to describe how he reversed a capability overmatch from an administrative perspective and accomplishes that without any ego at all, plus he is super easy to read on top of it. You'd never know he was an elite cricketer who just happened to also singlehandedly set the tempo for Allied sniper instruction during WWI. Killer read and fairly short.

>>34787954
just b urself :)

>>34787954
Be black.

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>>34790011
i knew someone would come here to post this shitty book by the most overrated General of WWII

>Manstein Masterrace, faggot

>>34793860
>Women who look like that
>Fucking niggers

Maybe if they're in the NBA/NFL

>Ender's Game
Typical YA shit

>Art of War
Is there anything in there that isn't obvious when it's not dressed up in spooky language? Take the enemy by surprise. Attack him when he's tired and you're not. Know the capabilities of your own forces, as well as the enemy's. Fight if you're certain you're gonna win. Don't fight if you don't have to. Etc.

>>34788444
>ender's game

I was getting at the fact that EG is on the mandated reading list for the USMC.

And when you think about it, it's a manual on how to mindfuck people into being good officers.

>>34794009
>>Ender's Game
>Typical YA shit

wew, lad. So edgy. Ender's game is a book about creating the perfect officer, it has nothing to do with the YA bullshit that is prominent of late. Even with the movie and people calling it Harry Potter in space. Yeah, it's "Harry Potter and the Strategic Genocide". Let's sum up:
>main character was bred for just the right amount of intelligence, and aggression
>his ticket to the school was stomping a kid's brains out to put the fear of god into his buddies and not have to deal with future challenges
>the plot is about having him come up with his own solutions, and never once rely on someone higher up to bail him out.
>the bugs (aka commies/mudslimes/etc) are physically incapable of communicating with the civilised world, so the solution is to kill them all, to prevent any future wars
>the kid is tricked into thinking it's all a game, so his decisions are not weighed down by concience, just pure win-lose calculation.

Yep, YA shit as usual. (asside from all the naked 6 year olds, and hillarious jabs at Jews, and the Warsaw Pact/Soviet Union).

I think not.

>>34784927
Her top piece is too short/small for her frame.
The bitch is retarded.

>>34794009

Why didn't you just read these books before commenting about them?

Roger Trinquier's book on modern warfare, and JFC Fuller's Conduct of War (among others) spring to mind. Both should be available online, either libgen or archive.org

>>34794593
Excessive violence, cynicism and overall edginess are not alien thing to YA. You just not accustomed with dark part of its scene. Like Hunger Games or Mortal Engines.

>>34794626
It's almost as if she doesn't plan on leaving the top on or something.

Tempted to sage this thread because not being able to fuck that 20/10 blondo is literally giving me depression everytime I see her beautiful Aryan face. And I have a GF.

>>34794626
>>34796708
>*Giggles* Tut mir leid! Mein Badeanzug passt nicht ... was machen wir? *giggle*

>>34796742
Kann man nichts machen, ab damit.

>>34784927
She must be poor. Couldn't buy a top that fits.