In Burn In, Singer and Cole take readers on a journey at an unknown date in the future, in which an FBI agent searches for a high-tech terrorist in Washington, D.C. īurn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. As Bacevich details in this definitive history, the mission creep of our Vietnam experience has been played out again and again over the past 30 years, with disastrous results. What caused this shift?” the book jacket asks. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. “From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Published in 2016 by Andrew Bacevich, a historian and retired Army officer who served in Vietnam, the book unravels the long and winding history of how America got so entangled in the Middle East and shows that we’ve been fighting one long war since the 1980s - with errors in judgment from political leaders on both sides of the aisle to blame. I picked up America’s War for the Greater Middle East earlier this year and couldn’t put it down. Īmerica’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. It gives you the perspective of German and Soviet soldiers during the most apocalyptic battle of the 20th century. Stalingrad takes readers all the way from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union to the collapse of the 6th Army at Stalingrad in February 1943. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor It’s a big lift of a read, but even if you just read chapter two (like I did), you’ll come away thinking about war in new and refreshing ways. Why do we even fight wars? Wouldn’t a massive tennis tournament be a nicer way for nations to settle their differences? This is one of the many questions Harvard professor Elaine Scarry attempts to answer, along with why nuclear war is akin to torture, why the language surrounding war is sterilized in public discourse, and why both war and torture unmake human worlds by destroying access to language. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry My only suggestion is to not read it in public - if you’re anything like me, you’ll be consistently left in tears. Graff expertly explains the timeline of that day through the re-telling of those who lived it, including the loved ones of those who were lost, the persistently brave first responders who were on the ground in New York, and the service members working in the Pentagon. If you haven’t gotten this must-read account of the September 11th attacks, you need to put The Only Plane In the Sky at the top of your Christmas list. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff It’s a harrowing tale, but one worth reading before enjoying the acclaimed Netflix series. Now a gritty and grim animated World War II miniseries from Netflix, The Liberator follows the 157th Infantry Battalion of the 45th Division from the beaches of Sicily to the mountains of Italy and the Battle of Anzio, then on to France and later still to Bavaria for some of the bloodiest urban battles of the conflict before culminating in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The full-color comic is basically ‘Conan the Barbarian’ in MARPAT. Written by ‘Terminal Lance’ creator Maximilian Uriarte, this full-length graphic novel follows a Marine infantry squad on a bloody odyssey through the mountain reaches of northern Afghanistan. As Klay’s prophetic novel shows, the machinery of technology, drones, and targeted killings that was built on the Middle East battlefield will continue to grow in far-flung lands that rarely garner headlines. It took Klay six years to research and write the book, which follows four characters in Colombia who come together in the shadow of our post-9/11 wars. I loved Phil Klay’s first book, Redeployment (which won the National Book Award), so Missionaries was high on my list of must-reads when it came out in October. Have a recommendation of your own? Send an email to and we’ll include it in a future story. Here’s a brief list of some of the best books we read here at Task & Purpose in the last year. Luckily, there were a few bright spots: namely, some of the excellent works of military history and analysis, fiction and non-fiction, novels and graphic novels that we’ve absorbed over the last year. Between the political unrest and novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it’s difficult to look back on the year and find something, anything, that was a potential bright spot in an otherwise turbulent trip around the sun. Old taweez book pdf.Let’s be real: 2020 has been a nightmare.
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