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13 years 7 months ago - 13 years 7 months ago #20401 by mrraley
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Not sure where to start this list. But was going to start a list of good books to read.

For those that have been to NTC for rotations, here is a good fiction book that I took a liking to when I was stationed out there...

The Defense of Hill 781. Fictional book on a NTC rotation
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Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's Twenty-One Day Assault on Baghdad (Just because I was there and this is who I was with)
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
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13 years 7 months ago #20678 by mlotziii
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When do you find time to read?

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13 years 7 months ago #20690 by Charlie
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If you have not read "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle please do! It's a SHTF scenario in which pretty much everything goes wrong.

Niven is an SF writer and Pourlelle is an engineer with NASA. The scenario involves a comet strike, and it rains for months destroying crops and transportation, and flooding all lowlands. There is no food but what's in grocery stores, no medicine, and few doctors. Everybody is out for their own survival, and acting in mutually destructive ways.

Regardless of the initiator it is my considered opinion that this is the most likely outcome of a SHTF scenario. Don't get caught on the road!

Charlie

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13 years 7 months ago #20692 by Siscowet
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That was a good book. They did another called "Hammerfall" which was a very realistic Alien Invasion scenario. Very entertaining reads about how humans would respond to SHTF scenarios. :thumbs:

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13 years 7 months ago #20700 by Sharkey
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I'm reading "the life and times of all my friends at AR10t.com". So far it's kickin... :thumbs: :thumbs:

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13 years 7 months ago #20702 by LebbenB
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I really liked Niven and Purnelle's mercenary series from the 80s-90s. It dealt with the exploits of Falkenberg's Legion. Good reads, the lot of them.

David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers" series was also good.

The Executioner #1-39, by Don Pendleton. The rest are written by nameless hacks.

The original James Bond novels, novellas and short stories by Ian Fleming.

Point of Impact, Stephen Hunter. Basis of the movie "Shooter." Hunter really knows guns and shooting.

Non-Fiction:

Attacks, by Irwin Rommel. Although famous as a tanker, Rommel was a grunt officer in WWI. His description of the fighting in the Balkans and some of the TTPs he used there came in handy in Afghanistan.

For a look into the mind of the man that planned the OBL raid, read "Spec Ops" by (then) CMDR Ed McRaven. This book started as his disertation at Navy War College. He looks at nine or ten classic raids and puts them within the framework of his "Relative Superiority" theory of special operations.

"On Killing" by LTC Rex Grossman.

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13 years 7 months ago #20706 by VTIT
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I just read:
American Sniper
Chris Kyle's book

An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson

The Longest Winter
Alex Kershaw

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley

Mostly WWII stuff because that is my interest right now.

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13 years 7 months ago #20709 by mrraley
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mlotziii wrote: When do you find time to read?


;) I usually read in the evenings before going to bed... I helps me wind down and puts me to sleep.

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13 years 7 months ago #20713 by VTIT
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mlotziii wrote: When do you find time to read?



Get up at 5am, go to bed at 9pm, work from 7:30am to 4pm. I don't watch much TV and I have no life :lol: . I am building an electric car with some guys from work. ( mikrosecc.blogspot.com ) but other than that I have guns :thumbs: (snow just leaving) and family (but not necessarily in that order).

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13 years 7 months ago #20718 by Siscowet
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mlotziii wrote: When do you find time to read?

Nice thing about retirement is having time to read and explore what I am curious about. So much of my reading was about work when I was in the workforce, I didnt have much time or energy to do much more. Funny thing though, overtime I have gotten involved in so many other things, it feels like I have a not quite full time job now. But it is things I want to be involved in.

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