Sublime

John Boyd was probably the greatest fighter pilot to ever live. He revolutionized his field more than anyone before or since. A manual he wrote, Aerial Attack Study, incorporated as much math into the science of fighting maneuvers as engineers used in building the planes.

Dick Couch offers another of his superb SOF selection and training books with his account of MARSOC’s approach to those issues: Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine (Couch 2015).

Roger Beaumont’s classic exposition, Military Elites (Beaumont 1976)

Special Operations Journal.