{"id":4459,"date":"2011-11-07T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2011-11-07T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T03:29:33","slug":"currently-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"Currently Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the pages of a few books. Here&#8217;s what I am reading right now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1586489216.jpg\" height=\"244\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.tower.com\/images\/mm111486676\/a-terrorists-call-global-jihad-deciphering-abu-musab-jim-lacey-paperback-cover-art.jpg\" height=\"231\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" src=\"http:\/\/images.betterworldbooks.com\/023\/Storming-the-World-Stage-Tankel-Stephen-9780231701525.jpg\" height=\"244\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.tower.com\/images\/mm107128489\/another-bloody-century-future-warfare-colin-s-gray-hardcover-cover-art.jpg\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a jQuery1320635320939=\"136\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Five-Percent-Solutions-Seemingly-Impossible\/dp\/1586489216\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1320635356&amp;sr=1-1\"><strong>The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Peter Coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intriguing\u00a0book about the nature of intractable conflicts (ex. Israeli-Palestinians), including the mathematical patterns and complexity\u00a0behind the attractors and how to break the deadly cycle. A courtesy review copy from the publisher, I am about 1\/3 finished and will review soon, perhaps this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Terrorists-Call-Global-Jihad-Deciphering\/dp\/1591144620\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1320635630&amp;sr=1-1\"><strong>A Terrorist&#8217;s Call to Global Jihad: Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri&#8217;s Islamic Jihad Manifesto<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Jim Lacey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I read <strong>Architect of Global Jihad<\/strong>, the bio of Syrian Islamist theorist and terrorist,<strong> Abu Musab al-Suri<\/strong>. Here Jim Lacey interprets a digest taken from al-Suri&#8217;s monumental\u00a01600 page magnum opus, <strong>Islamic Call for Global Jihad<\/strong>. The dry, autodidactic,\u00a0tone of al-Suri comes through in Lacey&#8217;s text.<\/p>\n<p><a jQuery1320636150705=\"83\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Storming-World-Stage-Lashkar---Taiba\/dp\/0231701527\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1320636186&amp;sr=1-1\"><strong>Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Columbia\/Hurst)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by <strong>\u00a0Stephen Tankel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A courtesy review copy from the author, I finished this book about the Pakistani infamous\u00a0Ahl-e-Hadith terrorist group and ISI proxy, Lashkar-e-Taiba recently. I would have reviewed here already except that my review is being published in an overseas magazine and it has not yet been released. An informative book by Carnegie scholar Stephen Tankel\u00a0that traces the evolution of the group that gained worldwide attention by their horrific attack on Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Another-Bloody-Century-Future-Warfare\/dp\/0297846272\">Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare<\/a><\/strong> by <strong>Colin S. Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am 3\/4 finished with this work by eminent strategist Colin Gray who is making a case for the eternal continuity of war, if not the tactical iterations of warfare.\u00a0Valuable for Gray&#8217;s Clausewitzian take on all the avant garde schools of strategy, warfare and futurism that abound. I set it aside for a while because I was burning out on a steady diet of war and strategy books, PDFs, articles and internet threads \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the pages of a few books. Here&#8217;s what I am reading right now: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts\u00a0by\u00a0Peter Coleman An intriguing\u00a0book about the nature of intractable conflicts (ex. Israeli-Palestinians), including the mathematical patterns and complexity\u00a0behind the attractors and how to break the deadly cycle. A courtesy review copy from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,420,133,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-authors","category-book","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}