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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Al-Qaeda’s planes operation seems to have been guided by a larger strategy: provoke the United States, draw it into a war in the Middle East, force infidel governments there into crisis (they would have to either accommodate the unpopular occupiers or fight them), and then defeat the United States on the ground, just as the mujahidin had defeated t

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire

both cases, psychology proved critical. Napoleon’s delusion was to believe in military strategy and underestimate the role of morale; his generals failed to appreciate that Russian citizens battling for their lives on their home soil had far greater incentive to fight than did a poilu from Paris yearning for the Champs Elysées. The LTCM strategists

Eugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market

It was not simply the imperial presidency, a notion that went back to the 1960s. It was the reality of contemporary war.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

Properly organized and led, ordinary men could defeat skilled warriors who fought as individuals or as small bands. The classic example of design in battle strategy, one that is still studied today, is Hannibal’s victory over the Roman army at Cannae in 216 B.C.

Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters

"When I was a brand-new lieutenant, I asked my father, “How would I know if somebody that I worked for or worked for me was going to be a good commander in combat? ... How would you tell in peacetime?” He says, “You won’t. You won’t know because people have capabilities or coping mechanisms that in peacetime look fine, that doesn’t play well in war... See more

Brain Food: Tentative Uncertainty

If you are uncomfortable with an operation that precisely targeted a group of jihadists who aspire to commit an actual genocide, just what sort of self-defense on Israel’s part would you support?

Sam Harris • Sometimes, Violence Really Is the Answer

War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (Conflict Classics)

Emile Simpson

And the attack must always be fair. Fairness is the tiny voice that thunders from behind every argument.