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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 68,979 ratings — published 1999
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.03 — 141,016 ratings — published 2012
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.03 — 57,932 ratings — published 2012
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 100,890 ratings — published 2006
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,562 ratings — published 2004
Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,483 ratings — published 2011
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,410 ratings — published 2012
Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,029 ratings — published 2016
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.21 — 11,799 ratings — published 2005
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,520 ratings — published 2006
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,214 ratings — published 2011
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,126 ratings — published 2010
Sniper One: The Blistering True Story Of A British Battle Group Under Siege (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,085 ratings — published 2007
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.37 — 46,064 ratings — published 2024
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,475 ratings — published 2015
Seal of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,925 ratings — published 2010
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,008 ratings — published 2013
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,854 ratings — published 2009
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,120 ratings — published 2013
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,547 ratings — published 2004
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,674 ratings — published 2009
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,381 ratings — published 2014
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,474 ratings — published 2016
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.57 — 22,228 ratings — published 2012
Service: A Navy SEAL at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,393 ratings — published 2011
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,694 ratings — published 2006
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,633 ratings — published 2006
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,941 ratings — published 2003
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,783 ratings — published 2010
The Yellow Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,730 ratings — published 2012
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,442 ratings — published 2002
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,626 ratings — published 2009
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,130 ratings — published 2009
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,555 ratings — published 2010
The Good Soldiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,665 ratings — published 2009
In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,940 ratings — published 2003
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,811 ratings — published 2020
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq (General Military)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.77 — 101 ratings — published 2012
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.15 — 344,853 ratings — published 1990
Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.82 — 802 ratings — published 2015
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,979 ratings — published 1991
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,909 ratings — published 2006
Seal of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,044 ratings — published 2012
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,252 ratings — published 2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,525 ratings — published 2013
Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.73 — 48 ratings — published 1986
Counterinsurgency In Modern Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.69 — 108 ratings — published 2004
No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 388 ratings — published 2011
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.99 — 997 ratings — published 2012
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-warfare)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,428 ratings — published 2012
“The faith induced military fervor that served the Muslims so well in the mortal combats of yore became their very bane in the later day techno-military conflicts with the scientific tempered kafirs.”
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“The delibarate placing of the highest intellectual gifs and achievement at the service of the lowest human instincts is a phenomenon with which the twentieth century is acquainted on a scale never previously attained. And whether the instinct be fear (the main defensive one) or revenge possessed (the main offensive ones) makes little difference in the end, so readily do they pass into one another.
It is no recent discovery that brain as well as brawn is esential to the efficient figher. The Trojan Horse is the perennial symbol of that truth, and it is appropriate that Shakespeare put on the lips of Ulysses an encomium on the “still and mental parts” of war. But it remained for war in our time to effect the total mobilization of those still and mental parts. The ideological warfare that precedes and precipitates the physical conflict (cold war as it has significantly come to be called); the propaganda that prepares and unifies public opinion; the conscription, in a dozen spheres, of the nation’s brains; the organization of what is revealingly known as the intelligence service; but most of all the practical absorption of science into the military effort; these things, apart from the knowledge and skill required for actual fighting, permit us to define modern war, once it is begun, as an unreserved dedication of the human intellect to death and destruction.”
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It is no recent discovery that brain as well as brawn is esential to the efficient figher. The Trojan Horse is the perennial symbol of that truth, and it is appropriate that Shakespeare put on the lips of Ulysses an encomium on the “still and mental parts” of war. But it remained for war in our time to effect the total mobilization of those still and mental parts. The ideological warfare that precedes and precipitates the physical conflict (cold war as it has significantly come to be called); the propaganda that prepares and unifies public opinion; the conscription, in a dozen spheres, of the nation’s brains; the organization of what is revealingly known as the intelligence service; but most of all the practical absorption of science into the military effort; these things, apart from the knowledge and skill required for actual fighting, permit us to define modern war, once it is begun, as an unreserved dedication of the human intellect to death and destruction.”
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