{"id":2408,"date":"2007-10-14T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2007-10-14T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T15:10:00","slug":"2408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Top Billing!<\/span> <\/strong>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/story\/ar\/_a\/band-of-brothers-kinship-endures\/20071013102109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001\">&#8216;Band of Brothers&#8217; Kinship Endures<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/band-of-brothers.nl\/images-artikel\/ent_ent_vandewal_2.jpg\" \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Easy Company&#8217;s new authors, William &#8220;Wild Bill &#8221; Guarnere and Edward &#8220;Babe&#8221; Heffron.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having been the focus of several best selling military histories, including <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Band-Brothers-Regiment-Airborne-Normandy\/dp\/074322454X\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-7656946-8399259?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1192375829&amp;sr=1-1\">Band of Brothers<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and an acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0185906\/\">HBO miniseries <\/a>of the same name, two veterans of the celebrated &#8220;Easy Company&#8221; have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothersinbattlethebook.com\/\"> told their own story <\/a>in a joint memoir <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere\/dp\/0425217280\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-8131439-9954440?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1180235744&amp;sr=8-1\">Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainrunner.us\/\">Matt Armstrong<\/a><\/strong> -in<strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmagazine.com\/\">GOOD Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmagazine.com\/\"> <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodmagazine.com\/section\/Provocations\/america_should_hire_al-qaedas_pr_agent\">America Should Hire al-Qaeda\u2019s PR Agent<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>A short but pungent critique about fortress embassies and IO incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swedemeat.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Swedish Meatballs Confidential<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211; &#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/swedemeat.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/you-cant-polish-turd.html\">You Can&#8217;t Polish a Turd<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;that&#8217;s quite an icebreaker of a post heading.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pundita.blogspot.com\/\">Pundita<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pundita.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/strategic-communication-how-to-get-your.html\">Strategic Communication: how to get your message across when the enemy&#8217;s agitprop is better than yours<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Pundita takes a break from her excellent, in-depth, coverage of Burma to comment at length on one of my prior IO posts, taking the counterintuitive path in her conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/\">Kings of War<\/a><\/strong> -&#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Smart army but what is it good for?\" href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/05\/smart-army-but-what-is-it-good-for\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Smart army but what is it good for?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Critique of the Kilcullen\/Nagl COIN transformation from the Brit perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William McCallister<\/strong> at<a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/\"> <strong>SWJ Blog<\/strong> <\/a>-&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/mac-coin-and-irregular-warfare\/\">Pamphlet: COIN and Irregular Warfare in a Tribal Society <\/a>&#8220;( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallwarsjournal.com\/documents\/coinandiwinatribalsociety.pdf\">read the pamphlet here <\/a>-PDF)<\/p>\n<p>More of a journal article (72 pages) than a pamphlet, McCallister gives a substantive overview and analysis of working with tribesmen.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READINGTop Billing! &#8221; &#8216;Band of Brothers&#8217; Kinship Endures&#8220; Easy Company&#8217;s new authors, William &#8220;Wild Bill &#8221; Guarnere and Edward &#8220;Babe&#8221; Heffron. 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