What to Read After The Sling and the Stone
Readers who loved The Sling and the Stone by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Sling and the Stone is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Sling and the Stone
Accidental Guerrilla
Counterinsurgency Warfare
Makers of modern strategy
On guerilla warfare
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
The Utility of Force
On killing
The Face of Battle
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
On the psychology of military incompetence
Brave New War
Supreme Command
Coup d'état
Transformation of War
The generals
Out of the Mountains
The mask of command
One hundred days
Gervais Principle
The Islamic threat
Bear Went over the Mountain
The Pentagon's new map
Inside terrorism
The soldier and the state