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I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullv

I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38IDMDZ/ref=cm_sw_r_de_lm http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38... 1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz 2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey 3. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone 4. The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough 5. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle by Robert Leonhard 6. Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by B. H. Liddell Hart 7. The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli 8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto 9. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 10. The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu 11. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 12. Evolutionary Game Theory by Jörgen W. Weibull 13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung 14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides 15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus 16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon 17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch 18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch 19. Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Titus Livy 20. The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) by Titus Livius Livy

lani 18y ago
hey.quite a bit of this is online at sonshi.com, in the library section ( or used to be..haven't been there for some time now )
mmmurf 18y ago
+1 for #6. It's a great read. It would be fun to teach a high school history class around it.
mnemonicsloth 18y ago
Commentary on The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
newt0311 18y ago
To those, I would add this: MODERN WARFARE A French View of Counterinsurgency by Roger Trinquier
- uuilly 18y ago
  Along these lines get "The Battle of Algiers" on netflix. When Iraq started going badly they actually had a huge screening in the pentagon.
  - newt0311 18y ago
    Too bad that the tactics that served the French so well in Algiers can not be applied in Iraq.
    - davidhelgason 18y ago
      They "served" the French for a while, as they might serve the US in Iraq... for a while that is. But remember that just when the French thought they'd suppressed Algerian resistance, it erupted violently and the result was a long and extremely bloody civil war.
yters 18y ago
Have you read all of these?

lani 18y ago

hey.quite a bit of this is online at sonshi.com, in the library section ( or used to be..haven't been there for some time now )

mmmurf 18y ago

+1 for #6. It's a great read. It would be fun to teach a high school history class around it.

mnemonicsloth 18y ago

Commentary on The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar

newt0311 18y ago

To those, I would add this: MODERN WARFARE A French View of Counterinsurgency by Roger Trinquier

uuilly 18y ago
Along these lines get "The Battle of Algiers" on netflix. When Iraq started going badly they actually had a huge screening in the pentagon.
- newt0311 18y ago
  Too bad that the tactics that served the French so well in Algiers can not be applied in Iraq.
  - davidhelgason 18y ago
    They "served" the French for a while, as they might serve the US in Iraq... for a while that is. But remember that just when the French thought they'd suppressed Algerian resistance, it erupted violently and the result was a long and extremely bloody civil war.

yters 18y ago

Have you read all of these?