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April 21st, 2006
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| Tirones | Post; Reading lists for US military academiesDoes anyone know where I can find a list or something on the books (fiction and/or historical, preferably) that are required for reading at West Point, Annapolis, etc.? I'm trying to draw an analogy between intellectual education in modern military training to that depicted in Plato's "Republic." I know "Starship Troopers" is one. |
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April 21st, 2006
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| Centurion | starship troopers is on the USMC reading list, just google that and see hwat you come out w/.
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April 21st, 2006
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| Banned  | Seriously? That's insane, cuz Starship Troopers is not only fiction, but science fiction. What else is on the list? Sun Tsu - The Art of War, Clausewitz - On War, that kind of stuff? |
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April 22nd, 2006
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| Primus Pilus | Manstein,s;Lost Victories |
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April 23rd, 2006
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Quote:
The movie is just a simply extremly dumbed down version of the book. Thats a lie its not dumbed down it had its heart and soul extracted. Read the book, the libs love it. /mega sarcasm
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April 23rd, 2006
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| Banned | Dont have the time right now  Could you briefly summarize what it says that's interesting for a military academy?All I remember from the movie that could make "liberals" hate it was that it was set in an undemocratic society (I remember them talking about the failure of democracy or something). |
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April 24th, 2006
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | You know what Mohmar, I read in this book somewhere that the author said we could one day cheaply and efficently fly around the world in "airplanes" and that we would one day set foot on the moon. Science fiction, pffff.
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April 24th, 2006
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| Immunes | At K.P. our class was issued Shackleton's Way. ...that is, if we count...
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April 25th, 2006
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| Chief Engineer  |  Quote:
__________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations  | |
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