Pro Libby tip: If you're listening to a book before you go to sleep, set a bookmark and then the sleep timer. If you ass out before the timer, you'll know roughly where to go back to.
Breezed through this whilst doing yard work last weekend. Infectious story.
Might have already posted this in this thread, but Preston's books are all similarly themed and all good. If you want a shit-your-pants fiction-but-plausible book, read The Cobra Event. That, Demon in the Freezer, and The Hot Zone are the three of his books I've read. All totally worth it.
I've probably gone through a dozen or more War on Terror books in the last year. A certain side-ism has come through between them.
#TeamFBI - FBI was doing things the right was, but was undermined by the CIA and underutilized by policymakers.
#TeamMilitary - The armed services—SpecOps in particular—have the training and tools necessary for the job. FBI & CIA just make trouble on the periphery.
#TeamCIA - This team is smaller. CIA has infrastructure and methods for the job, but has been underfunded and mismanaged.
Dirty Wars, written by someone from The Nation, surprisingly was #TeamCIA and very suspicious of JSOC. A contention raised several times in the book was that the CIA had more Congressional oversight, whereas JSOC could go rogue and no one would ever hear about it.
Bush gets smacked around, as is custom. However, the author has harsh assessments of Obama. To wit, perhaps weº didn't give him enough credit as a ruthless killer of brown people around the Middle East. The extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, both US citizens, is a central part of the book. The Bush admin harassed al-Awlaki. Obama vaporized him and his kid. I probably cheered it at the tim. The author makes a strong case that al-Awlaki had nothing to do with 9/11 hijackers, as alleged.
Warrior Cop was probably the better of the two, because it covered more. Some shocking stats on SWAT team usage. It triggered my libertarian sensibilities pretty good.
I Can't Breathe, a story well-told. The way Eric Garner was killed is pretty fucked up.
Blood Meridian For Whom the Bell Tolls 1984 The Thrawn trilogy 1776 The Hunt for Red October Moneyball The Right Stuff
Just to name a few...
I’ll add them and figure out a way to post the Google sheet without Doxing myself.
Just create another google account like "twogaydadsintohardcore@gmail.com"(probably taken) and then have THAT account share the doc. That's what I did for the first couple of podcasts.
The late @Crow_T_Robot might appreciate Sowell's tracing of what is essentially Fast Strategy culture in the South to the shitty parts of Great Britain. Good book.
Was reading: The Plague by Albert Camus but had to put it down when shit got real in February or so, been slowly getting back into that.
Other shit I've been picking up and putting down this year: Democracy in America, the Elminster series from Forgotten Realms(DnD nerd shit), Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond(can't have a desert compound without water)
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I've probably gone through a dozen or more War on Terror books in the last year. A certain side-ism has come through between them.
- #TeamFBI - FBI was doing things the right was, but was undermined by the CIA and underutilized by policymakers.
- #TeamMilitary - The armed services—SpecOps in particular—have the training and tools necessary for the job. FBI & CIA just make trouble on the periphery.
- #TeamCIA - This team is smaller. CIA has infrastructure and methods for the job, but has been underfunded and mismanaged.
Dirty Wars, written by someone from The Nation, surprisingly was #TeamCIA and very suspicious of JSOC. A contention raised several times in the book was that the CIA had more Congressional oversight, whereas JSOC could go rogue and no one would ever hear about it.Bush gets smacked around, as is custom. However, the author has harsh assessments of Obama. To wit, perhaps weº didn't give him enough credit as a ruthless killer of brown people around the Middle East. The extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, both US citizens, is a central part of the book. The Bush admin harassed al-Awlaki. Obama vaporized him and his kid. I probably cheered it at the tim. The author makes a strong case that al-Awlaki had nothing to do with 9/11 hijackers, as alleged.
Warrior Cop was probably the better of the two, because it covered more. Some shocking stats on SWAT team usage. It triggered my libertarian sensibilities pretty good.
I Can't Breathe, a story well-told. The way Eric Garner was killed is pretty fucked up.
Recommend both.
The late @Crow_T_Robot might appreciate Sowell's tracing of what is essentially Fast Strategy culture in the South to the shitty parts of Great Britain. Good book.
Was reading: The Plague by Albert Camus but had to put it down when shit got real in February or so, been slowly getting back into that.
Other shit I've been picking up and putting down this year: Democracy in America, the Elminster series from Forgotten Realms(DnD nerd shit), Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond(can't have a desert compound without water)
Weº do a lot of the fallacies.