Grand Strategy Reading List from Foreign Policy Magazine

http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/10/gng

- Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

- Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History

- George Kennan, American Diplomacy, 1900-1950

- Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000

- Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation

For exhaustive list see The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy syllabus http://www.yale.edu/iss/gs/GS-syllabus-spring-2008.pdf

- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.

- Geoffrey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II.

- Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.

- Allen Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

World Series of mountain warriors

Thomas Ricks on Gurkhans vs. Taliban:

I didn't realize the Gurkhas were fighting in Afghanistan. This is like the World Series of mountain warriors. It also is a replay of the last British small war in the region, the fighting in Waziristan in the 1930s. John Masters wrote a wonderful memoir of commanding a Gurkha unit there in his classic Bugles and a Tiger. In a subsequent volume, The Road Past Mandalay, about fighting in World War II, he recalls at one point being surrounded by a Japanese unit in Burma, and his Gurkha sergeant major turning to him and saying, "Boy, am I glad these guys aren't Pashtuns!"

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/gurkhas_vs_taliban

Cites

Taliban attack Nato Routes
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/26/taliban-attack-nato-routes/

Gurkas Help Routs Taliban
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/90986/Gurkhas-help-rout-Taliban

Could China and India go to war over Tibet?

"This is the role Tibet's dispensation plays in the conflict between China and India. Indian strategist C. Raja Mohan puts it bluntly: "When there is relative tranquility in Tibet, India and China have reasonably good relations. When Sino-Tibetan tensions rise, India's relationship with China heads south." Although not widely recognized in the West, the nexus of Tibet and the unresolved border conflict between China and India ranks with the Taiwan Strait and Korean peninsula among Asia's leading flashpoints."

http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/10/could_china_and_india_go_to_war_over_tibet