(Part 2) Top products from r/CombatFootage
We found 24 product mentions on r/CombatFootage. We ranked the 265 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
Horse Soldiers The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U S Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
22. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 2
Bantam Books
24. Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford Univ Pr
25. Sea Harrier over the Falklands (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
NewMint ConditionDispatch same day for order received before 12 noonGuaranteed packagingNo quibbles returns
27. Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad; New Updated Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
28. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
29. Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
30. Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It (Chicago Series on International and Dome)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
31. Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe
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Number of reviews: 1
Oxford Univ Pr
32. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
33. Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Classics
34. Modern Classics Story of a Secret State: My Report To The World (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Number of reviews: 1
35. The Junior Officers' Reading Club
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Number of reviews: 1
PENGUIN GROUP
38. How to Lose WWII: Bad Mistakes of the Good War (How to Lose Series)
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Number of reviews: 1
One major point that people should know about Pakistan is that they are culturally, religiously, historically and linguistically tied to India and to an extent, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (the latter tie being stronger than the former).
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were once a single entity under the British Raj. Most Indian nationalists at that time, and some (though a smaller component) of Greater India nationalists see these three countries as one entity.
There are many reasons as to why India and Pakistan split, some of them are very legitimate concerns, whereas there are some issues that were very clearly motivated by personal interests of several leaders.
There is more to the split between India and Pakistan aside from the Republican split from the British Raj, there are other factors playing into the division of India into India and Pakistan, such as those that pertain to the treatment of the many Princely States.
Here are some solid recommendations as far as reading is concerned on this particular part of the world:
Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah and the Battle for Pakistan by Qutubuddin Aziz & Katherine Wang
Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
A Concise History of Modern India
by Barbara D. Metcalf & Thomas R. Metcalf
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
by Yasmin Khan
Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum by Stephen Cohen
https://www.amazon.com/Crusades-Authoritative-History-Holy-Land/dp/0060787295
There's so much information to convey so this book is very broad strokes. But it does a great job of covering both the Christian and Muslim worlds equally. I love it.
Well if we're recommending books on Tactics, in addition to the above mentioned books here are two more that I've read which are quite good:
Infantry in Battle - this is a .pdf version.
Stormtrooper Tactics
There is a thread where someone asked for a list of good books and there were a ton of responses.
Penguin recently released this edition which I had pre-ordered
Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108255/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_l9a7xbQ4251BF
The art is gorgeous
Horse Soldiers, fantastic book about the first ODA's in Afghanistan.
And LSTs (landing ship, tanks)! https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Neptune-Landings-Allied-Invasion/dp/0190462531
Short version, LSTs were the largest beach capable vessels and were seaworthy so were used to transport the bulk of allied supplies after D-day, their number was the limiting factor in operations until a deepwater port was opened over a month later.
I recently read Story of A Secret State by Jan Karski - an absolute blinder and a must read if you're interested in the subject area and haven't already come across it.
In fact, it's a must read.
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West.
Amazon Link
Gotta be Patrick Bishops's 3 PARA (amazon UK, amazon US) or The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey (amazon UK, amazon US)
3 PARA is a British journalist's account of the 2006 tour of Afghan, focussing on the operations of the 3 PARA battle group, while The JORC is a semi-biographical account of the early career of Patrick Hennessey, detailing his time in training at Sandhurst and Brecon, going on to multiple tours as a Pl Comd with the Gren Guards.
Both well worth a read.
Vietnam: A History, by Stanley Karnow.
It was made into a PBS series in the 1980's, and is in my opinion the best account of the country, their history, and the war.
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-History-Stanley-Karnow/dp/0140265473
For clicky: https://amazon.com/d/B07KK5Y4ZR/
Blood Year - David Kilcullen
If you can get a hold of it, read "Horse Soldiers" which is the story of these guys and their efforts in Northern Afghanistan. It is really gripping and tells the story of how the war on Terror started very well.
http://www.amazon.com/Horse-Soldiers-Extraordinary-Victory-Afghanistan/dp/1416580522
Definitely Generation Kill, to look into the dynamics of modern war. It's a seriously good, impartial, truthful and entertaining account of the first stages of the second Iraq war seen from the eyes of a battalion of first recon marines. Very well written, too.
War Nerd. Gary Brecher is a tongue-in-cheek military amateur analyst. His views on modern and past warfare are very lucid, albeit controversial and leftfield. His writing style is pretty original, kinda like the Hunter Thompson of war pundits. A backlog of his articles is also available online.
Making A Killing. It's the first person account of a British private security contractor in Iraq. I was expecting the worst when I read it, but it's actually very well written, informative and entertaining. Some of the lingo and drills described in the book actually helped me understand a lot of these videos.
Das Boot is my favourite war book, and it's an embedded reporter's account of a year in a german U-boat during the second world war.
How to lose World War II - Bill Fawcett
Roll Me Over: An Infantryman's WW2 by Raymond Gantter. Easily one of the best personal accounts I have read about the war in Europe.
My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd Another personal account but of the war in Bosnia.
If you read this
http://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0143113208
Hitler needed the Russians' resources - he couldn't just sit on the territory he had before the invasion of Russia because in the long run he wouldn't have been able to defend it from the US/UK and Russia.
Actually the whole Nazi thing was flawed from the start - the territory they conquered didn't actually help them. In fact it made their resource problems even worse.
Yes. That is: I recall there were two - fundamentally different - schools of thought within the RN/FAA's SHAR-units as of 1982.
For related discussions, see Ward's Sea Harrier over the Falklands.
Curiously, Morgan didn't even try to discuss this issue in his Hostile Skies.
I haven't read too many books about the subject, but one that I really like is 'Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001', by Steve Coll. It's incredibly illuminating and a fascinating read.
Robert Pape's 'Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It' is also one of my favorites.
"The composition and leadership of the insurgents were changing. As the FREs (Former Regime Elements) weakened, (Col. Brian) Drinkwine received warnings that foreign fighters were infiltrating into the Jolan, including the arch-terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi...On a night raid two Egyptians were arrested in an apartment with slogans supporting bin Laden scrawled in sheep's blood on a wall. Neighbors told a reporter that foreign fighters were threatening people who played Western music, styled their hair, wore revealing clothes, or even sold wood to contractors for the Americans."
"We heard the Islamic fundamentalists were starting to taunt Saddam's guys, saying the old army guys didn't have the balls to take on the Americans...We saw a change in tactics."
"The Iraqis never tired of talking, issuing long litanies of complains, making passionate promises of stability, and stoutly denying the presence of foreign fighters. The Fallujans were good people, fighting to protect their city. If the Americans would stop firing and pull out, all would be well. It was never clear, though, who spoke for the fighters. Those with the power of the guns remained shadowy figures, never mentioned by name."
"During the third week of April...Bremer's experienced deputy...chaired four sessions...to resolve the siege... Every day rusted and broken weapons were turned in as symbols of progress while the violence continued. As for expelling the terrorists, the negotiators denied they existed. Foreign fighters, they said, were a myth and an excuse to punish the city."
"(American LtCol Byrne asked) 'Can we agree that we share the same goals? That we both want the heavy weapons and the foreign fighters removed from the city, do we not?' (Former regime LCol. responded:) 'That is an American story. There are no foreign fighters...we take care of security by ourselves. If you are not here, there is no problem.'"
"(Muhhamad Latif, a colonel in the intelligence branch who had been imprisoned for seven years by Saddam) and the city elders met with Mattis, explaining that the people of Fallujah wanted no help from outsiders...Latif denied there were any foreign fighters in the city"
"Foreign fighters from Syria and Saudi Arabia trickled into the city. The insurgents organized a ruling council, called the Mujahadeen Shura, which moved into a mosque in the center of the city and issued written passes for Arab journalists to visit the 'liberated' city...The reign of the Taliban had descended on Fallujah."
"Neither the American nor the Arab press called particular attention to the proliferation of terrorist safe houses in Fallujah, while the city elders vehemently denied Zarqawi existed."
"'For the sake of your city,' Mattis said, 'you must tell Zarqawi and the Syrians to leave. They are killing your innocent fellow countrymen.... Get them out.'" (Chief negotiator Imam Abdullah Janabi replies) 'Someone gives you bad information... there are no foreigners here. You bomb innocent people. We only protect our homes when you come to destroy.'"
-- No True Glory - A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah