Book Review: The Accidental Guerrilla

The WSJ calls it “a counterinsurgency primer”.

Booklist: A Quick and Dirty Guide to War, and other bedtime stories…

Some books I’ve been meaning to post on – Instapundit (H/T) just reminded me of one of them :

Austin Bay’s and Jim Dunnigan’s A QUICK AND DIRTY GUIDE TO WAR, 4th Edition – The Tools for Understanding the Global War on Terror, Cyber War, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, China, Afghanistan, the Balkans, East Africa, Colombia, Mexico, and Other Hot Spots (piping hot, newly updated)

Also:

Bernard Rougier, Everyday Jihad

Chris Blatchford, The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of “Boxer” Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer

William Queen, Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

M.F.K. Fischer, How to Cook a Wolf

I just threw this last one on, for good measure. To quote John Updike, she was a “poet of the appetites,” writing about her love for food and cuisine during WWII in Europe when times were tough and food was rationed. A useful perspective during our own (less) challenging times.

Enjoy!

New book details Delta Force hunt for bin Laden

Writing under the name, “Dalton Fury,” a Delta Force commander has come out with a book on the hunt for bin Laden entitled, Kill bin Laden: A Delta Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man. In it he reveals how his unit “prepared for, planned, and executed its complicated mission,” one that was ultimately unsuccessful.

Looks to be a promising read.

(via Military.com)