{"id":4166,"date":"2011-07-15T23:09:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2011-07-15T23:09:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T23:09:36","slug":"now-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4166","title":{"rendered":"Now Reading…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Profession<\/a><\/strong> by Steven Pressfield<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Tequila Junction: 4th Generation Counterinsurgency<\/a><\/strong> by H. John Poole<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve’s<\/strong> novel The Profession<\/strong>\u00a0I have mentioned previously<\/a>, but I confess that I am puzzled by the choice of\u00a0book jacket on Tequila Junction<\/strong>, which looks somewhat like a children’s illustrated guide to COIN in 1980’s El Salvador<\/strong>. H. John Poole is a respected veteran and tactical expert and Tequila Junction<\/strong> carries the warm endorsements of General Anthony Zinni<\/a><\/strong> and William Lind<\/a><\/strong>. Maybe his grandson drew it? Odd.<\/p>\n

In any event, small unit tactics are not\u00a0a subject\u00a0I pretend to know much about, so it will remedy a gap in my knowledge base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Profession by Steven Pressfield\u00a0 Tequila Junction: 4th Generation Counterinsurgency by H. John Poole Steve’s novel The Profession\u00a0I have mentioned previously, but I confess that I am puzzled by the choice of\u00a0book jacket on Tequila Junction, which looks somewhat like a children’s illustrated guide to COIN in 1980’s El Salvador. H. John Poole is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,310,262,420,133,20,126,444,37,311,78,199,210,583,39,340,270,372,66,445,263,131,381,10,605,211,13,375,426,18,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3-gen-gangs","category-4gw","category-authors","category-book","category-coin","category-counterinsurgency","category-fiction","category-futurism","category-gangs","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-islamist","category-latin-america","category-military","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-primary-loyalties","category-reading","category-scenario","category-security","category-society","category-state-failure","category-tactics","category-terrorism","category-theory","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-veterans","category-war","category-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}