War, soldiering, or tactics.

>>8268435
Groundbreaking tactic: kill the fuckers who are trying to kill you.

clausewitz

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>>8268957
unfunny faggots should go back from whence they came.

>>8268435
I started a thread on this exact topic a few months ago. This was the list that we got to in the end:

Basics/Start here:
1)Sun Tzu - The Art of War
1b)Zhuge Liang's and Liu Ji - Commentaries on the Art of War
2)Thomas Cleary - The Book of Leadership, and Strategy
3)Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
4)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War
5)Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
6)Jomini - The Art of War
7)Clausewitz - On War

Urban/Guerilla Warfare:
1)Max Boot - Invisible Armies
2)Carlos Marighella - Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla
3)IRA Green Book
3b)Patrick Pearse - Fianna Handbook
4)Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War
5)Che - Guerrilla Warfare
6)Mao - On Guerrilla Warfare
6b)Mao - Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan
7)Edward Luttwak - Coup d'Etat, A Practical Guide
8)David Kilcullen - Counterinsurgency
8b)David Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
9)US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
10)Noriyuki Katagiri - Adapting to Win: How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War

Scientific Approach/Analysis:
1)Lawrence Freedman - Strategy
2)William Spaniel - Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook
2b)William Spaniel - Game Theory 101: The Rationality of War
3)Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd
4)Thesis: Military Intelligence in the New Zealand Land Wars, 1845-1864. - Clifford Roy Simons
5)Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy
6)John Boyd - The Mind of War

Ancient Wars:
1)The Roots of Strategy series.
2)Kautilya - Arthashastra (also largely economics)
3)Xenophon - Cyropaedia
3b)Anabasis
4)Histories - Herodotus
5)Tucidides - The History of the Peloponnesian war (recommended thrice)
6)Arrian - Campaigns of Alexander (recommended twice)
7)Renatus - De Re Militari
8)Ross Cowan - Roman Battle Tactics 109BC-313AD
9)Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic War
10)Maurice - Strategikon (recommended twice)
11)Vita Karoli Magni
12)Asser - Life of King Alfred.

Modern Warfare (WW1 onwards):
1)Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawerence
2)Rommel - Infantry Attacks
3)Jünger - Storm of Steel
3b)Jünger - On Pain
4)US Marines - Small Wars Manual
5)Adrian O'Sullivan - Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran)

Naval Warfare:
1)Alfred Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
2)Ed. Thomas J. Cutler - The U.S. Naval Institute on Naval Strategy
3)Corbett's Principles of Maritime Strategy
4)Sam Tangredi - Anti-access Warfare
5)David Evans & Mark Peattie - Kaigun
5b)Mark R Peattie - Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power
6)Steven Ballard - Japanese Army operations in the South Pacific Area: New Britain, and Papua Campaigns, 1942-43
7)Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes - Red Star Over The Pacific

(1/2)

>>8269527
(2/2)

Explosives:
1)The A Files: An Illustrated Handbook on the Art and Science of Things that Go Boom
2)Ragnar Benson - Ragnar's Guide To Home And Recreational Use Of High Explosives
3)J. Akhavan - The Chemistry of Explosives

N/A:
1)Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership.
2)Learning to eat soup with a knife - John Nagl
3)Edward Bernays - Propaganda
4)Robert Greene - 48 Laws of Power

Recommended Authors (no book specified):
1)Martin Van Creveld

/k/ recommended:
1)On Thermonuclear War – Herman Kahn
2)Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age – Francis Gavin
3)Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy – Charles L. Glaser
4)On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century – Jeffrey Larsen
5)The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy – David Hoffman
6)Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser

Non-Book Resources:
1)Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Podcast
2)http://www.theartofbattle.com/tactics-tutorial/

Also, here's a link to the original thread, if you give a shit:
http://imgur.com/9eXt5gH

>>8269527
>6)Mao - On Guerrilla Warfare
can't say that i'm too much into military books but this one was pretty interesting.

>>8269533
PPW is a good military strategy, but it really only works in predominately Agrarian societies. Virtually all of the world is urbanising/industrialising now, and fairly rapidly. There's much to be learned from Mao, but most of his work on war strategy is quickly being rendered irrelevant.

http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/105/105-1-1/index.html

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>>8268435
relevant quote from nappy

>>8269527
>>8269530
This is impressive, thank you. We should make this into some kind of chart if it isn't one already.