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Can I get some light/medium-light roast reads on militaristic thinking?

So far I've read Enders Game and Art of War, working on 5 Rings and I have The Prince. Anything Roman/Greek would tickle my penis, thxbb

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>>10601904
whatever

>> No.10601979

History of the Peleponnesian war - Thucydides
The conquest of Gaul - Julius Cesar
Livy - History of rome

And of course Clausewitz - On war, which is in my estimation the finest book about warfare and strategy. Martin van Creveld also has a great introductory book on the matter A History of Strategy

>> No.10602357

>>10601979
these are good

>>10601904
also check out Lendon's Soldiers and Ghosts. if you enjoy that, read his Empire of Honour. it's about how ancient Romans used public and private flattery as currency and how they coerced each other into war or heroic sacrifice with the equivalent of 'no-balls' .

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>>10602357
Bump

>> No.10604833

>>10601904
Clausewitz

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>>10601979
>History of the Peleponnesian war - Thucydides

After you have read this go read The Wars of Justinian (Prokopios)

>> No.10605288

>>10601904
On War - Clausewitz