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Old May 10th, 2006, 09:23 PM

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Default Re: A Military Book List

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Also, has anyone read Thunder Run? It's a very interesting Black Hawk Down-style story of the American tank assault into Baghdad. If you ever want to make a scenario on this battle, buy this book.

Another good read would be Threat: Soviet capabilites in the mid-90's by Steven Zaloga. Zaloga must be one of the most knowledgeable people on tanks in the world, and his book covers a hypothetical NATO vs. WarPac war around 1993-95 in central europe by walking through a few fictional battles novel-style. It has a lot of interesting insights, like how the Warsaw Pact logistics system was poorly defended against chemical warfare and how the BMP-2, with a height of only 2 meters, would probably not be able to shoot over its own soldiers and would kill them if they got in the way.
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