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u/Lmaoboobs · 12 pointsr/army

Here what I've picked up
On War by Clausewitz

MCDP 1 Warfighting

FMFRP 12-18 Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare

FMFRP 12-13 Maneuver in War

On Grand Strategy

The Art of War by Baron De Jomini

Just and Unjust Wars (apparently it's on the Commandant's reading list too)

Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare

Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat

Deep Maneuver: Historical Case Studies of Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations (Volume 5)

JP-1 Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States

DoD Law of War Manual

The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns

The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam

Strategy: A History

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

MCTP 3-01C Machine Guns and Machine Gun Gunnery

Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006

The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011

Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State

Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq

The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

This is all I can name off the top of my head right now

u/Acritas · 11 pointsr/WarCollege

There are several classes of formal military documents, regulating standard procedures in Russian Armed Forces:

  • Устав = Ustav, general procedures . When it's about battlefield procedures, the word боевой (combat) is present. Some ustav's are about internal service procedures, they do not have 'combat' word in the title. Those are publicly available as every soldier and CO must know well Ustav of their service branch (and often required to be acquainted with "neighboring service" Ustav - infantry with tanks, pilots with AA etc.).

  • Наставление = Nastavlenie - specific procedures for certain weapons or situations. Very often they are for officers only and thus might be classified. Examples are Actions of motorized riflemen battalion in attack, Actions of motorized riflemen company in defense, Tank battalion in combat etc.

  • Инструкция по применению = Instruction, user manual - technical manuals for weapons or weapon systems. For most advanced and novel systems those are classified.

  • Боевое примение <smth> = Combat usage of <smth> - Summarized experience of actual combat of <smth> - be it T-72 in some theater or tank platoon thru history.

    I gave several examples below. In general - English translations are rare and usually sucks due to translators not being aware well enough about quirks of russian military speak, russian military culture&customs etc.

    One of the best western authors about modern USSR/Russia is Lester Grau - he knows Russian well enough and knew actual soviet officers as well. He translated collection of GenShtab' papers on Afghanistan - [3]

    Sources

  1. (russian) Land Forces SOPs manual, part 3 (platoon, section, tank) = Боевой устав Сухопутных войск, ч3 - взвод, отделение, танк, 2005 That's active SOPs for combined arms of land forces

  2. (russian) Airborne forces (VDV) SOPs manual, part 3 (platoon, section) = Боевой устав ВДВ, ч3 - взвод, отделение USSR-time combat manual for VDV

  3. Lester Grau - The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan, 2007 Latest, enhanced edition
u/captainwacky91 · 2 pointsr/rs2vietnam

For some "light" reading, may I suggest The Bear Went Over the Mountain.