War

[Anonymous No.15521786]

Best books -- philosophies, theories, literary criticism, in particular -- on war?

Don't say Art of War

Also, if you know of any really excellent histories of the gun or other technologies of war, do say
Pic is The Roll Call (1874) by Elizabeth Thompson

[Anonymous No.15521893]

>>15521786
Unironically rapture’s reading list on war/tactics/theory of combat is like 10 pages of citations. Most comprehensive one I’ve ever seen,
He used to have it posted on his site along with others but he’s taken them down
If you email him with a .edu email from a good, school, though, he should just send it to you:

Pykewater.com

[Anonymous No.15521896]

>>15521786
"War is the father of all and king of all" - Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.15521927]

The black one not visible due to flash is The Transformation of War by Creveld. Thin red one is De Re Militari. Blocked by flash is Krentz and Wheeler.

Livy also has a few good texts that I have in the shelf above. He wrote on the wars of Rome and the rest of Italy, and Rome vs Carthage. Then there’s also Tacitus, Suetonius, and Josephus who wrote on the Jewish Wars of the Roman Empire.

The Bible is also a good start point for understanding war. Not only as a why, but a how and understanding the political science or psychology of war. But then we start to get into another category.

Good luck.

[Anonymous No.15522338]

>>15521893
I gave him a couple of recs and now he hid the war reading list. Mean.

[Anonymous No.15522724]

>please spoonfeed me on an activity I will never have the balls for to participate in

[Anonymous No.15522736]

>>15522724
Idiot