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  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the... (more)
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  Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (t)

  by Doug Stanton

  From the New York Times -bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across... (more)
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  The Gamble

  General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  Fiasco , Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq— The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as... (more)
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  Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

  by John A. Nagl

  Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife , Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in Iraq—considers the now-crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially unprepared. Through the use of archival sources and... (more)
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  Tree of Smoke: A Novel

  by Denis Johnson

  Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in... (more)
• My War with the Cia: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom SihanoukNorodom; Burchett, Wilfred Sihanouk

  

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  My War with the Cia: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk

  by Norodom; Burchett, Wilfred Sihanouk

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  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

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  The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

  by Frank Rich

  New York Times columnist Frank Rich examines the trail of fictions manufactured by the Bush administration from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, exposing the most brilliant spin campaign ever waged. When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not... (more)
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  The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies)

  by Brian McAllister Linn

  1999 began the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history. The war thrust the U.S. into the center of Pacific and Asian politics, with important and sometimes tragic consequences. It kept the Filipinos under colonial overlordship for another five decades and subjected them to American political, cultural, and economic domination. In the... (more)
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  The Village

  by Francis J. West

  In Black Hawk Down, the fight went on for a day. In We Were Soldiers Once & Young, the fighting lasted three days. In The Village, one Marine squad fought for 495 days -- half of them died. Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans volunteered to live among six thousand Vietnamese, training farmers to defend their village. Such "Combined Action Platoons"... (more)