It seems relevant to begin this new initiative by posting a tactics theory reading list that I compiled. It is just scratching the surface, a lot of this material comes in the form of shorter articles, but for those that are interested in looking into questions of police operations and tactical theory, this reading list is a place to start.
And, before you all start working through this list, read this article about Obama's appointee to head the CIA, John Brennan. Brennan is currently the Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and the architect of the drone strike assassination campaigns, which have dramatically increased under Obama (for a comprehensive history of recorded American drone strikes see twitter.com/dronestream and https://twitter.com/latest_strike for updates). This appointment comes after the spectacular collapse of the career of Gen. David Patraeus, who was the primary theorist behind US counter-insurgency strategy. It is clear that the reorganization of the US military, and this is bleeding into police department methodology, is one of constant surveillance within a concept of a total, given, security operation, that is capable of striking anywhere without committing ground troops or maintaining forward operating bases, supply lines or use of force agreements. Remember all that talk about military downsizing during the election, well this is the reason why they are trying to narrow down force quantity, while amplifying force coverage.
See these links to learn more about Brennan, and then have fun with the reading list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O._Brennan
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048317,00.html
Theory
On War- Carl Von Clausewitz
RAND Corporation- Cyberwar Is Coming!
(Arquilla and Ronfeldt)
www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR880/MR880.ch2.pdf
- Networks and Netwar Chapters
1,4,6,9 (Arquilla and Ronfeldt)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/
Nomadology and the War-Machine/Thousand
Plateaus- Deleuze and Guattari
From the Centre to the Periphery-
Alfredo Bonanno
http://325collective.com/centreperipherybook.pdf
Armed Joy- Alfredo Bonanno
http://zinelibrary.info/armed-joy
20 Thesis on the Subversion of the
Metropolis- The Invisible Committee
http://zinelibrary.info/20-theses-subversion-metropolis
The Coming Insurrection- The Invisible
Committee
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/
Intro To Civil War- Tiqqun
War
In The Age of Intelligent Machines- Manuel Delanda
Speed
and Politics- Paul Virilio
Reflections
on Violence- Georges Sorel
In
Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Development of Operational
Theory- Shimon Nahev
Army and Police Literature
US Army Field Manual 3-19.15-
fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-19-15.pdf
US Army Counterinsurgency Manual
US Army Stability Operations Manual
Riot Control: Rex Applegate
Counterinsurgency-
David Kilcullen
Learning
To Eat Soup With A Knife- John Nagel
Maneuver
In War- Colonel Charles Willoughby
Radical and Insurgent Literature
Enrages and Situationists in the May 68
Occupation Movement- Rene Veinet
libcom.org/library/enragés-situationists-occupations-movement
Total
Resistance- Major H Von Dach
Guerrilla
Warfare- Che Guevara
Guerrilla
Warfare- Mao Zedong
Philosophy
of the Urban Guerrilla- Abraham Guillen
Relevant
Histories
Forward
Into Battle- Paddy Griffith
A
Secret History of the IRA- Ed Moloney
History
of the Art of War- Hans Delbruck
The
Evolution of Weapons and Warfare- Colonel Trevor Dupuy
The
Makers of Modern Strategy- Paret and Craig
Hollowland:
Israel's Architecture of Occupation- Eyal Weizman
Lockdown
America- Christian Parenti
Our
Enemies in Blue- Kristian Williams
American
Methods- Kristian Williams
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