Shashank Joshi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Defence editor at @TheEconomist, Visiting fellow at @warstudies King's College London.
The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors
Gordon S. BarrassShashank JoshiThis thread is drawn from Gordon Barrass’ excellent book “The Great Cold War”, pub’d in 2009. Based on interviews with over 100 people, as well as his own experience as the “principal Kremlinologist” (https://t.co/gt1pBVo5wa) for MI6 in the late cold war. https://t.co/rqBXro6oCb
Hardcover, 2009
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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
Lawrence FreedmanShashank JoshiIn September I reviewed Lawrence Freedman's good & timely book on military command, good and bad. https://t.co/8Yda0MZFBU
Hardcover, 2022
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The Face of Battle
John KeeganShashank JoshiRe-reading The Face of Battle by John Keegan. "Inside every army is a crowd struggling to get out, and the strongest fear with which every commander lives—stronger than his fear of defeat or even of mutiny—is that of his army reverting to a crowd". And just how thin the line is: https://t.co/2Mbe1TCw57
Paperback, 1983
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Stephen BudianskyShashank JoshiFlipping back through Stephen Budiansky’s excellent book Code Warriors and came across this. “Trying to spot a security risk by keeping an eye out for unconventional behaviour at a SIGINT agency was like trying to find a KGB agent by looking for someone with a Russian accent” https://t.co/TVFQtEfqXL
Paperback, 2017
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Achieve: Overcome Obstacles. Find Time for Greatness. Develop a Framework to Achieve Anything.
Michael J. LeeShashank Joshi🧵 A very good conversation from yesterday (Sep 21) between Rob Lee, Michael Kofman and Dmitri Alperovitch on Putin's mobilisation announcement and the limits to what it can achieve, given constraints on training, leadership and motivation. https://t.co/4rgsO0OaZJ
Hardcover, 2020
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
Barbara W. TuchmanShashank Joshi“The only other statesman I could think of who had turned to a history book in a similar situation was John F Kennedy, who was hugely influenced by Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August at the time of the Cuban missile crisis” https://t.co/kMbAFws2a4
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
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The Tank Debate: Armour and the Anglo-American Military Tradition
John StoneShashank Joshi“What to a NATO officer is a dirt track, a forest ride, a narrow path through a forest is, to a Russian, almost as much of a ‘road’ as an autobahn.” (From John Stone’s excellent book “The Tank Debate”, published in 2000 & recommended to me by @Ajatollah_MAP) https://t.co/Wmx92gHcPo
Paperback, 2015
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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Steven LevyShashank Joshi@havethelastward @Sandbagger_01 Wonderful book. Along with Steven Levy’s “Crypto” perhaps the best accessible introductions to cryptology. Also loved Andrew Hodges’ biography of Turing.
Paperback, 2001
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
Cathal J. NolanShashank JoshiCathal Nolan’s “The Allure of Battle”—‘We seek clarity in war … More often, war results in something clouded, neither triumph nor defeat .. Exhaustion of morale and matériel rather than finality through battles marks the endgame of many wars. Even of most wars’ https://t.co/ZdofcuM9ef
Paperback, 2019
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi LoebShashank Joshi‘In a draft paper…Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, & Harvard professor Avi Loeb teamed up to write that the objects, which appear to defy all physics, could be “probes” from an extraterrestrial “parent craft”’ https://t.co/AFHAIKejsw
Paperback, 2022
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