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Thanks I really appreciate you compiling this for us. I'll be honing in on some of the nuclear war books personally.

I will bump this awesome list for those wanting summer reading ideas like I do.

Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972 by Marshall L. Michel III

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Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972 by Marshall L. Michel III

Wow, I was scrolling down to put this one in. One of the finest books on air warfare I've ever read.

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Wow, I was scrolling down to put this one in. One of the finest books on air warfare I've ever read.

It's one of the few books I've seen that gives one a sense of what an air battle might look like, and what motivates tactics. I like how it showed the beam pattern for the jamming pods dictated the formations for F-105s. I like how they contrasted Rolling Thunder v. Linebacker campaigns, and how precision guided ordinance and the requirement for buddy lasing changed the ratio of strikers to support aircraft. I also enjoyed their description of the employment of chaff bombs.

I also thought it was interesting how the USAF looked really bad, while the Navy really shined.

"Red November: Inside the secret U.S-Soviet Submarine War"

Sensational title. Will have a look at it.

"Red November: Inside the secret U.S-Soviet Submarine War" Sensational title. Will have a look at it.

Interesting book, its an odd mix: He tells the story of his Father and early SIGINT and Sub-coms before and during the Cuban Missile crisis - then transitions to his story (almost autobiographical) doing the cable tap deep dives in the 70's.

Well written and very good story with lots of interesting info.


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