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Here what I've picked up
On War by Clausewitz
MCDP 1 Warfighting
FMFRP 12-18 Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare
FMFRP 12-13 Maneuver in War
On Grand Strategy
The Art of War by Baron De Jomini
Just and Unjust Wars (apparently it's on the Commandant's reading list too)
Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat
Deep Maneuver: Historical Case Studies of Maneuver in Large-Scale Combat Operations (Volume 5)
JP-1 Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States
DoD Law of War Manual
The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns
The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam
Strategy: A History
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
MCTP 3-01C Machine Guns and Machine Gun Gunnery
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011
Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
This is all I can name off the top of my head right now
This a great place to start. War is no longer about winning by pillaging and burning down villages.
Two of my favorite books are called the The Sling and the Stone and Utility of Force.
Both are pretty easy straightforward reads. They are military men and just want to explain in the easiest way possible.
They are free in gen.lib.rus.ec
Is there a chance of a conflict that requires large numbers of ground troops?
That's not intended to be a rhetorical question: My last read around this was the 2005 "The Utility of Force" by Rupert Smith (Wikipedia, Google Scholar, Amazon) which argues for a paradigm shift that (as I remember it) includes that there are no longer industrial wars of a scale that matters to the western world. But this is clearly an old reference, and just a single point of view.
All protesters should read this book
https://www.amazon.com/Utility-Force-Art-Modern-World/dp/0307278115
I've read Sun Tzu, thanks. And it's "opponent." I don't see how anything you said is relevant to my point.
I was discussing the ramifications of military technology, and how it sometimes makes certain technological advancements paradoxically less effective in various situations.
For example, a 20th century soldier with an automatic weapon is in a great deal of trouble if the weapon malfunctions or if he runs out of ammunition, at which point a 12th century feudal knight might be more effective.
In any case, insurgencies and asymmetrical warfare have been around for thousands of years, what is your point? Insurgencies are ineffective against opposing forces that are willing to use total war. Examples of this include the Roman Republic/Empire, Mongol Empire, British Empire, etc. Hiding among the civilian populace only works when you are fighting someone who is not willing to kill the civilians to get at you.
I'd suggest A Utility of Force by retired British general Rupert Smith, who commanded British armour in Desert Storm and was overall commander of UN forces in Bosnia. A very interesting perspective, some have called him the new Clausewitz (though that may be a tad hyperbolic)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Utility-Force-Modern-Vintage/dp/0307278115