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Books about geopolitics

These are books that I found valuable and have written about.  These are not really reviews, but enough to perhaps catch your interest.  They also include links to reviews.

  1. A must-read book for any American interested in geopolitics:  Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner.
  2. The Constitution: wonderful, if we can keep it:  If We Can Keep It by Chet Richards.
  3. Valuable new insights about the culture of war… a preview – The Culture of War by Martin Van Creveld (a preview)
  4. A history book to help us better understand our rapidly changing world —  The Culture of War by Martin Van Creveld
  5. Diagnosing the Eagle, Chapter II — book recommendations for 2008 – Three great books, each telling much about 21st America.
  6. Diagnosing the Eagle, Chapter III — reclaiming the Constitution – about Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom.
  7. Diagnosing the eagle, chapter IV - Alienation – about The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch.
  8. Lest we forget, “Black Hawk Down”
  9. Least we forget: lessons for us from the Battle of Ia Drang – about We Were Soldiers Once… and Young.
  10. The Changing Face of War:  Lessons of Combat, From the Marne to Iraq, by Martin van Creveld — one of the major books about 4GW.
  11. New Books, with insights about our changing world
  12. Gift ideas – Books to get or give
  13. My movie recommendation for 2010: Vitual JFK (the book is also great)
  14. “Generals read Ender’s Game” and see their vision of the future Marine Corps,
  15. The little-known dark side of Ender’s Game
  16. America’s Defense Meltdown
  17. The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It
  18. Why Americans should love Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – we live there
  19. Martin van Creveld explains the essence of Airpower Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  20. Bing West tells us about Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan
  21. A Recipe for Change – a review of “Warfighting and Disruptive Technologies: Disguising Innovation”
  22. “What Goes Around Comes Around”, a review by Thomas X. Hammes of Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula (1964)
  23. The Last Valley – Dien Bien Phu, the battle the doomed the French Empire and led American into Vietnam (2004), 3 March 2012
  24. Invasion 1940: Did the Battle of Britain Alone Stop Hitler? (2005), 4 March 2012
  25. “COIN of the Realm” – reviewing one of the books driving our strategy in the Long War, 18 March 2012
  26. The Robot Revolution arrives, and the world changes, 18 April 2012 — About Race Against the Marchine by Brynjolfsson and Mcafee

Here is a list of information sources and books I have found useful:  You might find these info sources useful — I do!

Articles about the works of Thomas Barnett

  1. The Myth of Grand Strategy, 31 January 2006
  2. America’s Most Dangerous Enemy, 1 March 2006

Here are archives of online articles by some major writers about 4GW: