Reading for Afghanistan: 101st Airborne recommendations
Smart brigade leaders in the 101st Airborne Division who compiled their company commanders’ lessons learned also surveyed those captains about what reading they found helpful. Strikingly, the infantry guys emphasized “soft power” and cultural studies, while others went more with the Naylor and Bowden action stuff: Lester Grau, The Bear Went Over the Mountain and ...
Smart brigade leaders in the 101st Airborne Division who compiled their company commanders' lessons learned also surveyed those captains about what reading they found helpful. Strikingly, the infantry guys emphasized "soft power" and cultural studies, while others went more with the Naylor and Bowden action stuff:
Lester Grau, The Bear Went Over the Mountain and The Other Side of the Mountain (multiple votes for each)
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (two votes)
Smart brigade leaders in the 101st Airborne Division who compiled their company commanders’ lessons learned also surveyed those captains about what reading they found helpful. Strikingly, the infantry guys emphasized “soft power” and cultural studies, while others went more with the Naylor and Bowden action stuff:
Lester Grau, The Bear Went Over the Mountain and The Other Side of the Mountain (multiple votes for each)
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (two votes)
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Sean Naylor, Not a Good Day to Die (two votes)
Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue
Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea
Nate Self, Two Wars
Steven Tanner, Afghanistan
Dave Grossman, On Killing
Ergun Caner and Emir Fethi Caner, Unveiling Islam
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink
And two from an artillery battery commander who didn’t interact with Afghans:
Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
Mark Bowden,
Black Hawk Down
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