You’ve been asking for book recommendations so we put our heads together and came up with a good starter list. Some of these are core SOF reads and some of them, well, they’ll surprise you just a little bit.
Jack Murphy’s List
Special Forces
War Story, by Jim Morris
Across the Fence, by John Stryker Meyer
Rangers
Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden
Team Reaper, by Nick Irving
Delta Force
Inside Delta Force, by Eric Haney
Delta Force, by Charlie Beckwith
Kill Bin Laden, by Dalton Fury
ISA
Killer Elite, by Michael Smith
Secret Warriors, by Steven Emerson
Brandon Webb’s List
The Tree of Knowledge, by Humbertor Maturana & Francisco Varela
Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Lord of The Rings, by Tolkien
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
With Winning in Mind, by Lanny Basham
Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice, by Adm. William H. McRaven
The Man Who Declared War Against America, by Yossef Bodansky
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Caravans, by James Michener
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