Interim Content: Readings from my Dissertation

I have a lot of things to sort out over the next couple of days. I have a few pre-written posts, but I'm going to hang on to them for the time being. I expect to be off of the proverbial blogging radar for a while as I try to regain some post-dissertation equilibrium. In the mean time, I thought some of you (and maybe some random blog visitors) might find some interest in some of the sources that I used in my dissertation. Here are half of the sources I used, with some of the more important ones highlighted in bold. I used a lot of sources to demonstrate various things, as I tend to do with anything I write; and I managed to cram a lot of content into the damned thing. It was a great capstone project that allowed me to demonstrate that I'd mastered the topics discussed over the preceding months. As far as this list goes, there are a number of podcasts in there as well, so if you're curious about topics relating to what I've been studying, be sure to add a couple of them to your playlist.

• al Zawahiri, Ayman: Letter from al Zawahiri to al Zarqawi
• Albaugh, Kurt: Six Frigates and the Future of Gunboat Diplomacy
• Amos, General James F., USMC: Crisis Response and Expeditionary Operations: The Future of the United States Marine Corps: Critical Questions for a Period of Transition
• Axe, David: Navy’s Newest Assault Ship Moonlights as Pint-Sized Aircraft Carrier
• Boyd, Colonel John R., USAF: Destruction and Creation
• Brown, Ronald J.: U. S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With Marine Forces Afloat in Desert Shield and Desert Storm
• Carter, Lieutenant General Nicholas P.: British Army 2020: Ground Forces and Future National Security
• Casem, Sergeant Giancarlo, USA: NTC adapts to changing threat, looks to challenge rotational units with hybrid warfare
• Cheney, Major Stephen A., USMC: The Insurgency in Oman 1962-1976
• Connable, Major Ben: All Our Eggs in a Broken Basket: How the Human Terrain System is Undermining Sustainable Military Cultural Competence: Military Review Magazine
• Exum, Andrew: On the Defense Strategic Guidance
• Exum, Andrew: The Counterinsurgency Reading List
• Galula, David: Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958
• Galula, David: Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
• Grau, Lester W.: The Bear went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
• Greenert, Admiral Jonathan W., USN: The Navy's Approach to the Department of Defense's Savings and Efficiencies Initiative
• Guevara, Ernesto: Guerrilla Warfare
• Gulliver (pseudonym): Finding the hidden strategy in yet another non-strategic "strategy
• Hammes, T.X.: Sorry, AirSea Battle Is No Strategy
• Hoffman, Bruce: British Air Power in Peripheral Conflict 1919-1976
• Hoffman, Frank G.: Hybrid vs. compound war: The Janus choice: Defining today’s multifaceted conflict
• Hostage, General G. Michael III, USAF: Maintaining Dominant Combat Airpower in Fiscal Austerity
• Houghton, General Sir Nicholas: The UK Strategic Defence and Security Review
• Jackson, Whitney: Analysis: U.S. needs for language critical, Part 1
• Johnson, David E.: Military Capabilities for Hybrid War: Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza
• Kechichian, Joseph A.: Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy
• Kim, Jason: Cultural Awareness and Language Proficiency: Critical for Regionally Aligned Forces
• Krulak, Charles C.: The Strategic Corporal: Leadership in the Three Block War
• Lacey, Jim: Budgets and Strategy: A review of the 20th century’s wars shows how dangerous military unpreparedness is
• Lasica, Daniel T.: Strategic Implications of Hybrid War: A Theory of Victory
• Lovelace, Douglas C. Jr., and Metz, Steven: Don't Give Up on Ground Troops: With budget cuts looming, the Pentagon should focus on adaptability—not just technolgy
• Mao Tse-tung: FMFRP 12-18 Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare
• Martin, Sir Laurence: The Two-Edged Sword, Lecture 4: Conflicts of the Third World
• Mattis, General James N., USMC: Assessment of Effects Based Operations
• Meagher, Major John B., USMC: The Jebel Akhdar War Oman 1954-1959
• Miniter, Richard: Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America Is Winning the War on Terror
• Monick, S.: Victory in Hades: The Forgotten Wars of Oman 1957-1959 and 1970-1976, Part 1
• Monick, S.: Victory in Hades: The Forgotten Wars of Oman 1957-1959 and 1970-1976, Part 2A: The Dhofar Campaign 1970-1976
• Monick, S.: Victory in Hades: The Forgotten Wars of Oman 1957-1959 and 1970-1976, Part 2B: The Dhofar Campaign 1970-1976
• Moyar, Mark: The Third Way of COIN: Defeating the Taliban in Sangin
• ‘Floating base’ deploys to Gulf: US Navy
• 2008 National Defense Strategy
• 2010 National Security Strategy
• 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review
• 2011 National Military Strategy
• Active Engagement, Modern Defence: Strategic Concept For the Defence and Security of The Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• British Army Field Manual, Volume 1 Part 10, Countering Insurgency
• Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare
• FM 3-07 Stability Operations
• FM 3-22 Army Support to Security Cooperation
• FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5 Counterinsurgency
• FM 90-3/FMFM 7-27 Desert Operations
• FMFRP 0-53 Afoot in the Desert
• FMFRP 12-25 The Guerrilla and How to Fight Him
• Libya: UK Apache helicopters used in Nato attacks
• MCCP 1 Operational Maneuver from the Sea
• MCDP 1 Warfighting
• MCDP 1-1 Strategy
• NAVMC 2890 Small Wars Manual
• Reading List
• Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review
• Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense
• Neoptolemus (psuedonym): Defense in an Age of Austerity: 2022
• Odierno, General Raymond T., USA: The Future of the United States Army: Critical Questions for a Period of Transition
• Ottens, Nick: Amphibs vs Carriers: Which Has the Future?
• Outzen, Colonel Richard: Language, Culture, and Army Culture: Failing Transformation
• Peters, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph, USA: The New Strategic Trinity
• Rid, Dr. Thomas (host): Counterinsurgency and War Studies
• Roach, Morgan Lorraine (hostess): Crisis in the Sahel: Bitter Fruit of the "Arab Spring
• Russell, Richard L.: We Shall Return: Don't be too sure there won't be another U.S. war in the Middle East
• Scaife, Robert B.: The Regularity of Irregular Warfare
• Spring, Baker: The FY 2012 Defense Budget Proposal: Looking for Cuts in All the Wrong Places
• Stansfield, Gareth and Kelly, Saul: A Return to East of Suez? UK Military Deployment to the Gulf
• von Clausewitz, Carl: On War

Enjoy. I'll be back when I'm ready to be back. I'm going to try - try - to take a brief vacation and actually relax... In a few days.