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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

uh the nazis dealt with partizans by just killing villages so no I don't think we could learn anything from the loving nazis

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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?lang=en

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

Extreme ownership can be summed up in “just pretend you have full responsibility for everything that happens around you” which is all right but not really worth a whole book.

military leadership: when a higher up is around, tell someone to do something that they're already doing then look at your boss smugly

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

"The Short Timers" that Full Metal Jacket was adapted from is an amazing read. It was supposed to be a trilogy where in the third book he goes back to Vietnam to join the VC but the author died after writing the second novel.

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/i2l/shorttimers.pdf

Here is the PDF.

The wiki on the author is also interesting. He himself was a combat correspondent that was in combat in Hue. Afterwards other than writing it appears he enjoyed stealing books from libraries and had a storage container full of more than 10,000 books he had stolen.

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