The September 2021 reading list selections are all books that relate to Afghanistan.  If you are looking for a base from which to understand why we spent twenty years there and why we left the way we did, start in the pages of these selections.  Be sure to check out my stand-alone book specific Instagram page @JackCarrBookClub for a book club type experience in a place you can explore all my reading list selections in one location. If you are just discovering these lists for the first time and want to check out past selections, they are all posted to the blog section of my website.  For those new to the Team, each month I highlight books that have been influential to me along my journey, some from the professional reading list I was asked to put together for the Naval Special Warfare Center before I retired from the SEAL Teams and others that I have enjoyed at various stages of my life not directly associated with my time in the military. Interested in the “how” and “why” behind the books that influenced me?  You might find one that resonates.  Happy reading!

September 2021 Reading List Selections:

• The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock
• On War by Carl von Clausewitz
• The Transformation of War by Martin van Creveld
• Supreme Command by Eliot A. Cohen
• The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
• Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
• Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid
• In the Graveyard of Empires by Seth G. Jones
• The Bear Went Over The Mountain by Lester W. Grau
• The Other Side of the Mountain by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau
• Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell
• Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
• The Fragmentation of Afghanistan by Barnett R. Rubin
• Talibanistan, edited by Peter Bergen
• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
• The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen