David B. Larter Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David B. Larter

Anyone who covers weapons procurement should read the book Six Frigates. There is nothing new under the sun.

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I like Michael Lewis a lot. Liars Poker is the definitive account of 1980s Wall St. and The Big Short captures the insanity of pre-2007 Wall Street better than any other work I've read. But Moneyball really f***ed up the sport. When I retire, I plan to write the anti-Moneyball.

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Andrew Roberts is a fantastic writer and his Napoleon biography was no exception. Essential reading. But this assertion sticks with me and every so often I think about it when people say Putin was forced to invade Ukraine. https://t.co/yZfcJnHDg7

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On the high brow side: The Allure of Battle by Cathal Nolan is one of the best books on war I've ever read and should be required reading for anyone in NATSEC. Blood & Iron by Katja Hoyer was fascinating, and I've also greatly enjoyed her columns this year as well.

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May as well ask why bad things happen to good people, or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Orders of magnitude more thought went into the article covering this incident than went into the gesture that prompted it. https://t.co/tCNI2yJH0K

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I think the thing that really seals the "he's insane" thing for my neighbors is my rendition of Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like I Do" that instead goes 🎶Do You, Do You, Feel You Need to Poo🎶 that I sing to him sometimes. But he likes little songs.

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The Great Reset theme: you knew as soon as it hit that it came from a hermetically sealed bubble. Even branding it as "The Great" anything was catnip for conspiracy theorists. Alex Jones must have been like "Are they serious? They're not even gonna make me work for this one?"

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Packing for Mars by Mary Roach is funny. Apparently being pissy with mission control is a known astronaut psychological phenomenon. It's a way of redirecting your frustration with your fellow astronauts toward people with whom personal conflicts don't impact the mission

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@ccjackson Well Alison Weir is a great starting point for all things Tudor when it comes to getting a political baseline. The Safeguard of the Sea is essential background. Sir Francis Drake is another great read. Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh.

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One would imagine such an acclaimed author would have read Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allen Poe.. I don't know, 8th century Chinese poet Bai Juyi who wrote a poem literally titled "Poems in Depression." But maybe not? https://t.co/qMPv8BWHlI

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