What are you reading?

[ikalugin]

I just started another WW3 scenario: Gen. sir John Hackett's "The Third World War: August 1985".

THAT looks interesting, anyone know if there is something equivelent on the PACT side?

Have you read "The Red Army" by Ralph Peters?

[IR0NMIKE 6]

I just started another WW3 scenario: Gen. sir John Hackett's "The Third World War: August 1985".

THAT looks interesting, anyone know if there is something equivelent on the PACT side?

Have you read "The Red Army" by Ralph Peters?

I have not, and I think that would be the one I'm looking for, thanks ikalugin!

[[EUG]MadMat]

Have you read "The Red Army" by Ralph Peters?

I was about to ask the same question.

WW3 seen from a Soviet perspective. Way better than Clancy & Bond.

[ikalugin]

I have not, and I think that would be the one I'm looking for, thanks ikalugin!

No problem, it shows the operational level warfare much better than the RSR book (the only WW3 technothriller I have read), by showing capabilities rather than individual systems (because, when I read RSR now it is horrible accuracy wise).

[Tac Error]

Found two RAND reports written by an A-10 pilot in 1988 on W:ALB's campaign theater:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3439.html
http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N2497.html

[Killertomato]

Just re-started Vortex for the third time. Not exactly sure how accurate its description of the South African and Cuban militaries are, but it sure makes one hell of a read.

[Misfit]

Currently reading this forum.

[McNash]

I own Haythornwaite "The Waterloo Armies" and several of his Napoleonic contributions to Osprey series. I thought he was specialized in that period ...

I just started another WW3 scenario: Gen. sir John Hackett's "The Third World War: August 1985".

Interesting, what is this book about? I mean, I know is WW3, but what are the details of the settings?

[DeuZerre]

A traitor to (Half) my own kin, I'm currently reading this:

[Tac Error]

Just finished "To the Gates of Stalingrad" by David Glantz and Johnathan House; it's an operational history chronicling the prelude offensives to Operational Blau, Blau itself, the operations dubbed as Glantz as the "forgotten battles", and the destruction of many myths commonly accepted as truism associated with Stalingrad.