A COIN reading list
This one is fresh from the library of the U.S. Army War College. The list struck me as a bit haphazard –for example, why my article from Army magazine, but not the book from which that article was excerpted? — but overall my attitude is, the more of these lists, the better. austinevan/Flickr
This one is fresh from the library of the U.S. Army War College. The list struck me as a bit haphazard –for example, why my article from Army magazine, but not the book from which that article was excerpted? — but overall my attitude is, the more of these lists, the better.
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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