My War-ish Reading List

Inspired by others, here is my War-ish reading list:

Two Classics:

– The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

– The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

General Purpose-ish

– The American Threat: National Security and Foreign Policy By James L Payne

– The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce D. Berkowitz

– How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War – from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror by Bevin Alexander

– Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb

– The Pentagon’s New Map Thomas P.M. Barnett

– Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer

Maneuver Warfare / 3GW

– Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (A short intro to Maneuver Warfare – aka 3GW – thinking embedded in a fun to read Science Fiction novel)

4GW

– War Nerd by Gary Brecher (This is a  book mostly about 4GW by an insightful asshole)

– The Principles of War for the Information Age by Robert Leonhard

– Utility of Force by Rupert Smith

– The Sling and the Stone by  Thomas X. Hammes

Moving toward some 5GW thinking…

– Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui ( Forget the dumb criticism that this is anti-US book. This book broadens ones mind as to what conflict can be, is leads in to a key idea of 4GW and 5GW, that is the  Weaponization of things not thought to be Weapons)

– An Army of Davids by Glenn Reynolds (The emergence of Strategic Citizens)

– The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Brafman and Beckstrom

– Strategic Denial and Deception: The Twenty-First Century Challenge edited by Roy Godson and James Wirtz

– World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World by Christopher Andrew

– The Grand Jihad by Andrew McCarthy

Other/Related

– The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

– Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence by Roy Godson

– The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism by Hernando De Soto

– The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny