Reddit reviews Guide to Effective Military Writing

"Professional military writing" there are whole books on it. Basically short, to the point, and easy to read. The exact opposite of what they teach in college English classes.

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/writing/Writing_Style_Guide.pdf

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/p600_67.pdf

http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r25_50.pdf

http://www.armywriter.com/army-writing-references.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Effective-Military-Writing-3rd/dp/0811727793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452548082&sr=8-1&keywords=military+writing

A couple good recommendations I have (aside from Tom Clancy stuff which I read for recreation) are going to be

Guide to effective military writing

and

AF Officer's guide (Incredibly useful even as enlisted)

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I'm currently reading Ghost in the Wires, it's pretty neat. It's about this guy who hacked the FBI and then hacked their hack on him... pretty fun stuff. Talks a lot about the social engineering side of security.

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