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Originally Posted by Jason Weiser
- Red Army and The War in 2020 by Ralph Peters
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I really enjoyed
Red Army when it came out - a real antidote to the "our technology and better training is going to trounce their brute force" attitude of so many other books from the period. The books hypothesis is essentially what if the Russian Army performed pretty much as intended against NATO in Europe?
Looking him up on Amazon he also writes ACW detective fiction as Owen Parry as well as more factual military / political analysis (I'm assuming this is the same guy). I'll be keeping a look out for
War In 2020.
Off the WWIII / EOTWAWKI genre I've particularly enjoyed reading a couple of thrillers by a Swedish author Stieg Larsson,
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and
The Girl Who Played With Fire - I'm mortified that the final volume,
The Girl Who Kicked Over A Hornets Nest will not be translated into English and published until January 2010.
I'd also highly recommend
A Sense Of Honour by James Webb about cadets at Annapolis in the closing days of Vietnam (Webb also wrote
Fields Of Fire, a fictionalised memoir of his tour in Vietnam which is extremely good) and
Something To Die For which revisits one of the central characters from
A Sense Of Honour when he is serving as CO of an MEU operating in the Horn of Africa.