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Max Boot • Invisible Armies
Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime (Bridging the Gap)
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War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (Conflict Classics)
European armies had evolved into highly specialized machines to fight each other – but not to fight military forces whose ‘strategic doctrine’ was radically different. This was painfully apparent in the encounters between British troops and Native Americans in the 1750s.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Charles Briscoe and his coauthors (Briscoe 2003) produced an early, official account of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan: Weapon of Choice.