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What is scary to me is that Michael Scheuer[0] is not mentioned at all [1], judging from my first obvious search for his groundbreaking Imperial Hubris. Now, I
by 616c 12y ago
What is scary to me is that Michael Scheuer[0] is not mentioned at all [1], judging from my first obvious search for his groundbreaking Imperial Hubris.
Now, I know he does not count as military professional, but as a 20+ year counter-terrorism and counter-intel officer who lays out clearly our policy is fucking us and how we will inevitably lose the so-called GWoT.
He wrote it anonymously, at the time. So if you like Snowden, you will love him. I would hope a reading list about the most important combat operation of the 21st century for USG armed forces would read harsh criticism in an attempt to win something so important.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer
[1] http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=hubris http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=...
- uberuberuber 12y agoThere are many great interviews by Scott Horton with Scheuer. http://scotthorton.org/tag/michael-scheuer/ http://scotthorton.org/tag/michael-scheuer/
- 616c 12y agoCool. I will check those out. I still want to underline, how can this OP website not mention anything with him. (Unforunately, he ended up working at Georgetown, and I could not stand him after that, haha.)
- tcopeland 12y agoThe site only contains various military reading lists, so apparently Scheur's book hasn't been represented on any of those - at least not the ones that I've managed to collect, that is. But the "Defense Academy of the UK" list has a book by David Owen (The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair & the Intoxication of Power) that sounds like it's in the same ballpark.
- arethuza 12y agoWhat do you think of the books by Robert Baer e.g. "See No Evil" and "Sleeping with the Devil"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baer