Military

A list of books about military mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

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  Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
  by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

• The Men Who Stare at Goats
  by Jon Ronson

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  Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies
  by Jim Schnabel

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
  by Thomas E. Ricks

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  Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
  by Sebastian Junger

  most mentioned

• Rogue Warrior
  by Richard Marcinko

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  Tales From the Blast Factory: A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Beret’s Journey Back From the Brink
  by Andrew Marr & Adam Marr

• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  by Daniel Ellsberg

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  Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang

  space science

• The Art of War
  by Sun Tzu

• The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
  by Robert O’Neill

• Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
  by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

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  Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
  by Robert M. Gates

• The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism–From al Qa’ida to ISIS
  by Michael Morell with Bill Harlow

• Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
  by Trevor Paglen

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  The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz
  by Martin Van Creveld

• Memoirs of the Second World War
  by Winston S. Churchill

  history

• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
  by Annie Jacobsen

  conspiracy

• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
  by Annie Jacobsen

• The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency
  by Annie Jacobsen

• Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
  by Annie Jacobsen

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  Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
  by Annie Jacobsen

  history

• Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945-1990
  by Linda Hunt

  history

• Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
  by Dakota Meyer & Bing West

• War Is A Racket
  by Smedley D. Butler

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  Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
  by Eric Schlosser

• Counterinsurgency Field Manual
  by David H. Petraeus & James F. Amos

• Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military’s Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit
  by Charlie A. Beckwith

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  No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
  by Mark Owen

• The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
  by Ulysses S. Grant

  biography

• Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
  by Dalton Fury

• No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL
  by Mark Owen

• Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
  by Ronen Bergman

• The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
  by David Kilcullen

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  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
  by Steve Coll

• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  by Steve Coll

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  Storm of Steel
  by Ernst Junger

  history

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  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
  by William L. Shirer

  history

• Red Eagles: America’s Secret MiGs
  by Steve Davies

• The 33 Strategies of War
  by Robert Greene

• Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler’s Most Brilliant General
  by Erich Manstein

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  The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
  by Barry Sanders

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  Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
  by H.R. McMaster

• Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  by H.R. McMaster

• The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
  by Christian Brose

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  Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military
  by Matthew Lohmeier

  military

• The Way Forward: Master Life’s Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy
  by Robert O’Neill & Dakota Meyer

• On War
  by Carl von Clausewitz

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  The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
  by Craig Whitlock

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  Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself
  by Tim Kennedy & Nick Palmisciano

  biography

• The Missing of the Somme
  by Geoff Dyer

  history

• Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
  by Joby Warrick

  history

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  Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
  by Matthew Cole

• Defend Us in Battle: The True Story of MA2 Navy SEAL Medal of Honor Recipient Michael A. Monsoor
  by George Monsoor

• Obama’s Wars
  by Bob Woodward

  politics

• The New Rules of War: How America Can Win–Against Russia, China, and Other Threats
  by Sean McFate

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  Happy Odyssey
  by Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

  biography

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  The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
  by Alistair Urquhart

  biography

• The Rape of Nanking
  by Iris Chang

• Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld
  by Sharon Weinberger

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  The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship
  by James M. Scott

  history

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  Nuclear War: A Scenario
  by Annie Jacobsen

• The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
  by Joby Warrick

• Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War
  by Johnnie M. Clark