/lit/ - Literature

Fry the Brain.
If someone is trying to kill me, I should be far away, and with a few buildings between us.

>also JFK was shot by 5 snipers and Oswald was just a fall guy

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>>15972417
>favorite book
Fry The Brain
>favorite writer
David Kilcullen or Ragnar Benson
>current book
SHTF Intelligence: An Intelligence Analyst’s Guide to Community Security by Sam Culper and The Going Home series by A. American
>favorite movie currently
The Naked Gun series
>age you lost your virginity
19

>>15960810
Fry The Brain. I have a little bit of actual training in small unit tactics from getting training to become a better shooter in the unlikely and unfortunate scenario that I'd have to use a firearm. And so for a while I thought the end all be all was the high speed low drag oper8r type stuff. But then I read Fry The Brain. And in reality, to be the most effective with your gun, you would want to be the opposite. Which is the sniper. So my ideas were turned on their head in the same manner that guerrilla warfare turned military thought on it's head. And I just found that endlessly fascinating.
Also, the book goes through and using historical events (like the IRA sniping campaign and the siege of Sarajevo) to analyze sniping and guerrilla warfare. And the author adds in quite a bit of applicable information, rather than just theory.

>>15960823
Nope. All my life I hated reading, it is very hard for me because of my (mild) epilepsy and adhd. But last summer I quit my job and realized I needed something to do. Long story short, I started reading military and history books. Guerrilla warfare caught my attention because the way it flips military strategy on it's head is absolutely fascinating. Plus the way that it ties into politics, sociology, and philosophy shows the way warfare has expanded and become so much more than what it used to be, specifically how the ability to use violence has been expanded to smaller and smaller groups.
I just finished my history classes for my BA and finished the semester writing a (short) research paper on the CCP's influence on guerrilla warefare for my US-China Relations class, while in lock down cause of the wu flu. So that was interesting.

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>>14024748
Sorry, I forgot
>And btw what would you say the mass emphasis on guerrilla warfare comes from?
It's just extremely interesting to me. It's what got me into reading cause I found a topic that would hold my attention. Where before I could never sit still long enough to finish a book. I'm planning on doing my Master's work on it next year.
>do you know of any textbook of tactics
Yea, I've posted a few already, I'll mass quote them when I've posted more.

>>14024821
>but would you care to name those 10 books?
Oooo, that's a toughy.
Those 4, Fry The Brain (this has a lot of "practice" in it, but the whole book is on the strategy of sniping and guerrilla warfare), Over the Mountain and The Other Side of the Mountain (I might be over emphasising these but they are GREAT books and their story is so interesting, as in both the story of the books and in the books), Any book by David Killcullen, Maneuver Warfare Handook/4th Generation Warfare Handbook (same author, essentially writes a great book on conventional warfare in the height of the Cold War then updates it to be about unconventional war), Infantry Attacks, and War of the Flea.
Now, I'm not any sort of expert, mind you. So take that as MY top ten on strategy. And I would have a different answer had your question been "mindset" or "tactics".

>>13739919
So far Fry The Brain has had the biggest impact on me.
I've taken some classes that focused on high speed low drag stuff like bounding and peeling and small unit tactics, but Fry The Brain really reminded me how important marksmanship is and how devastating a "sniper" can be, especially in an urban environment.
Combine that with The Precision Rifle B.I.B.L.E. by Nicholas Irving and that is probably the path to being the most efficient warfighter a single person can be.
And that combined with the fact that most countries in the west have SOME legal way of getting a hold of a bolt action rifle, which arguably a superior tool (however the book does discuss that other firearms, even pistols can most certainly be used), and that hunting is not only a normal pastime but an extremely good way to familiarize yourself with certain aspects of "sniping", you don't have to worry about a lot of legality if you want to practice or train.

Again, I'm glad I'm somewhat familiar with room clearing and small unit tactics, but the idea of a single individual being as effective as they possible could be is found in the role of the sniper, and Fry The Brain and The Precision Rifle B.I.B.L.E. are what I would recommend.