A Topical Reading List

[Goldstein1984]

I stumbled across this reading list in a link off of a Huffington Post article. No message intended. It just looked like good reading for anyone else like me--trying to make sense of things, so I thought I would share it.


The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes
Norton, 311 pp., $22.95

Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
by Andrew Cockburn
Scribner, 247 pp., $25.00

Still Broken: A Recruit's Inside Account of Intelligence Failures, from Baghdad to the Pentagon
by A.J. Rossmiller
Ballantine, 236 pp., $25.00

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost
by the Russian General Staff, translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress
University Press of Kansas,364 pp., $17.95 (paper)

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
translated from the Russian and edited by Lester W. Grau
National Defense University Press, 223 pp., $35.00 (paper)

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau
US Marine Corps Studies, 419 pp. (1995)

The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan's Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Anthony Arnold
Presidio, 225 pp. (1993)

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
Penguin, 712 pp., $16.00 (paper)

The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran
by Yossi Melman and Meir Javedanfar
Carroll and Graf, 285 pp., $16.95 (paper)

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
Random House, 539 pp., $15.95 (paper)

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Interesting list. I appreciate your posting it.

:hi: