As Six Days of War is leading me up to the outbreak of hostilities, it is amazing to me how the various Arabic countries were competing against each other as much or more than "liberating" the Palestinians. Whether it be nationalists versus "reactionary" kingdoms (Egypt vs Jordan), Syria goading Egypt into attacking before it felt it was ready, etc. And I never even knew that Egypt had 50,000 troops in Yemen fighting a proxy war against Saudi-backed forces there. A very enlightening read so far.

As Six Days of War is leading me up to the outbreak of hostilities, it is amazing to me how the various Arabic countries were competing against each other as much or more than "liberating" the Palestinians. Whether it be nationalists versus "reactionary" kingdoms (Egypt vs Jordan), Syria goading Egypt into attacking before it felt it was ready, etc. And I never even knew that Egypt had 50,000 troops in Yemen fighting a proxy war against Saudi-backed forces there. A very enlightening read so far.

 

Lots of personnel, aircraft, weaponry, etc being "exchanged" between the Arab states at the time.

 

When you're done, I'll be interested in hearing any thoughts you might have in light of the current discussion about Israel returning to its 1967 borders.

"A Strong and Sudden Onslaught: The Cavalry Action at Hanover, Pennsylvania" by John T. Krepps.

This helps explain why I've apparently dropped off the face of the earth.

This helps explain why I've apparently dropped off the face of the earth.

 

A good book can definitely do that.

Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division by Don M. Fox.

 

Very interesting read thus far. I was intrigued after seeing the Arracourt Battle episode of Modern Tank Battles. Relationships between Patton (US Third Army Commander), General Manton Eddy (US XII Corp Commander) General Wood (4th Armored Division) and 4th Armored subordinates Major Irzyk, and 1stLt Leach from the breakout from Normandy, exploitation through Brittany, then turning east into the Lorraine region and the encirclement of Nancy.

 

That is where I am right now. Preparation for the watered down German counter-attack is now being described. Still have the attrition-warfare relief of Wood, the 3rd Army pivot and relieve of Bastone, through the end of the war.

Perousing in the net about submarines, I've finded these fiction books by D.M. Ulmer (Captain USN, retired, he served also in the Type XXI U-2513 and in the SSK-1 USS Barracuda ), about submarines on the Cold War.

Probably they are worth of a second look, at least:

http://mightyo.site.aplus.net/dmulmer.com/reviews.html

Just finished a modern picture book. Modern Air-Launched Weapons by Martin J. Dougherty. Harpoon databases are more accurate than his book but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Marshal Without Glory, a biography of Hermann Goering.

Does the "Idiot's Guide to Soccer" count?

Does the "Idiot's Guide to Soccer" count?

 

I hear ya, Pete. Not much time for reading lately. Maybe when the cold weather sets in.

And I shouldn't have to ask if you've read all of Larry Bonds' titles. Red Dragon Rising Shadows of War...a global warming armageddon Chinese style was an eye opener even as it was fiction.

And I shouldn't have to ask if you've read all of Larry Bonds' titles. Red Dragon Rising Shadows of War...a global warming armageddon Chinese style was an eye opener even as it was fiction.

 

Hmm, actually I haven't. Is it a book of warfare or some spy thriller? If Bond, Carlson, Clancy, and a few others can get back to writing mil-Fi instead of spy-Fi I'll be an even happier reader. This decade+ of CIA and Spy novels has been killing me.

And I shouldn't have to ask if you've read all of Larry Bonds' titles. Red Dragon Rising Shadows of War...a global warming armageddon Chinese style was an eye opener even as it was fiction.

 

Hmm, actually I haven't. Is it a book of warfare or some spy thriller? If Bond, Carlson, Clancy, and a few others can get back to writing mil-Fi instead of spy-Fi I'll be an even happier reader. This decade+ of CIA and Spy novels has been killing me.

Shadows of War does have a slight diplomatic to moderate spy theme with some military hardware thrown in. Bond has written several books in this style but I believe he has written a mil-nonfic simular to Clancys mil-nonfic. I'll accept the challenge of reading more Bond titles and will report back.

I'm currently working my way through the military science fiction Honor Harrington series by David Weber. To a large extent the combat is Harpoon in space.

Not reading, but I finded this book just now, International Electronic Countermeasures Handbook By Horizon House, Journal of Electronic Defense:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8kePYF...dar&f=false

It can be interesting ...