Category Archives: Annotated (Mostly) Bibliography

Books I’ve read, collected and used professionally and personally.

Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism

2012, by Patrick Sookdheo, et al. This book was recommended to me by a newly promoted Special Forces Captain on Okinawa in February, 2019.  I was impressed by the SF Captain and by this book – and that ain’t easy … Continue reading

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The “Accidental” Guerrilla by David Kilcullen

  Reads like a bought-and-paid-for-Politically-Correct-State Department Phd dissertation. Or Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China or Peter Schran’s Guerrilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region, 1937-1945 in which the authors also drank the PC Kool-Aid.  OK! OK! So … Continue reading

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The Laws Of Human Nature by Robin Greene

In two words:  Balderdash! Poppycock!*   I’m reminded of the adage ‘the Devil will tell you nine truths to make you believe one lie’.  Greene tells you nine lies and one truth (the last chapter – on leadership).  But the reader … Continue reading

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