An award-winning and highly acclaimed account of a bomb disposal team operating in Iraq in the early stages of the insurgency, the film seeks ‘to immerse the audience’ in the experience of combat in Iraq.
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Kathryn Bigelow
Restrepo (2010)
Another award-winning film, this time a documentary on the war in Afghanistan that follows the deployment of a platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley.
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Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
… lessons learnt. Each has ongoing applicability to decision making …
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Errol Morris
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
… constitutional orders. Bobbitt applies Clausewitz’s insight as to …
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Philip Bobbitt
Ethics, Law and Military Operations
… a framework for assessing and applying fundamental legal and …
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David Whetham (ed)
Rogue Forces: an explosive insiders’ account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, Rogue Forces is a compelling and confronting piece of investigative journalism into SAS war crimes in Afghanistan.
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Mark Willacy
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
… In war, command is about forging and implementing effective strategies and ensuring appropriate, timely, …
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Lawrence Freedman
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
… the strategy of the indirect approach and the revival of …
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Basil H Liddell Hart
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present
… This is a big, thick book that grapples with the history of …
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Beatrice Heuser
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War
… Just as happened after the Vietnam War, …
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Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey