The Warlord's Reading List, by Anarchonomicon

The Guide to Warfare in the 21st Century for Ghetto Operators, Regime Transition Teams, and Cartel General Staff

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Reading like a Warlord

If certain theories of mine play out, then over the next few decades 10s thousands, possibly millions of people around the world, will be gathering in Church Basements, Living Rooms, American legion halls, etc. And concluding, as we’ve already seen in miniature in North Carolina and hurricane struck areas: The government isn’t going to help them. Indeed it may be the problem or it may not even be able to help itself.

So what do you do without law, order, direction, or governance? As we’ve seen over the past, at least 500 years, from the english civil war, to the revolution, to the civil war to Weimar Germany… you form a paramilitary unit. You become your own deterrent.

(the hypothetical “you”, not advice)

How does one do that? How does modern warfare work? How does it work at the scale of what might be very unskilled, underfunded, and under-organized units that probably have very little training or experience.

Remember the vast majority of conflict zones in history, from ultra-low intensity gang wars, to high intensity civil wars like Syria, have been defined by large numbers of hastily assembled people, of many disjointed organizations and questionable loyalty across many MANY groups… You may not like it, that’s not ideal… But if you are not already in hyper-organized, vertically-integrated, highly resourced military, you are vastly more likely to wind up in some hastily assembled, untrained, barely even named paramilitary, militia, “volunteer force” or Freikorp, than you are to suddenly get experienced people giving you a months long education and organization…

And if you are reading this, it is very likely that you’d have to fill some role in the leadership of that group, or if you have mentors you’re fortunate enough to defer to, you probably will quickly have to study and fill gaps and take the lead on one or another specialized area because even trained senior veterans of modern militaries, with decades of experience will have massive gaps in their knowledge outside their narrow military occupational speciality, and will need people who have an entry level knowledge, and can self-direct research and specialization (Seriously this is the list of Army Occupational Codes… This is for ONE Branch of the US military)

“Familiarity” let alone Experience quickly becomes a scarce resource in any suitably disastrous era. Professional nation state militaries have regularly gotten to the point where men in their early 20s have achieved ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel to even General in the past 250 years.

Napoleon was 26 when he was given command of the Army of Italy and launched his first great campaign (Great video). And it isn’t unheard of for teenagers and even pre-teens to have wound up in charge of platoons or even company sized militia and guerilla elements in the various civil wars and resistance movements seen in Africa and the Eurasian continent in the past 100 years (Though teens becoming supreme commander, like Alexander or Gustavus Adolphus, hasn’t happened in the past 300 years).

So if things start popping off… And you’re both not ancient, not obese, and not stupid… You could have A WHOLE LOT of responsibility for a WHOLE LOT of people thrust upon you very quickly, with very little direction, and the entirety of modern warfare coming down upon you very fast.

Thankfully you have me. 😽

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Ever since I was a kid I’ve always been a dork for military manuals, spy-books, The Jolly-Rogers anarchist cookbook… I always loved the weird or asymmetric stuff. My favourite TV show as a kid was a Canadian True Crime series “Masterminds” that specifically focused on the weirdest most galaxy brained criminal operations in history.

And my god did I read a lot of random garbage.

There are tons and tons of military books that are basically zero information consumer garbage for teen and pre-teen boys… likewise tons of true crime, even supposedly hard nosed Organized Crime fiction, is a kind of leering fetishization of violence and decadent lifestyles instead of actually communicating how these criminal operations function as businesses and political units…

However I’ve come across a lot of real gold and some straight up meme material.

THE BEST BOOK IS THE ONE YOU READ. Sadly you may still have to dig through dry military manuals and padded bureaucratese to find some very current information… But I’ve worked very hard to weed it down to the readable best. Information is useless buried on a shelf at home or in an untouched PDF.

Given this fact: The two best types of military and preparedness books are:

1. Actual military manuals from the 60s-80s. These were from an era where it was expected the manuals would actually be read by soldiers, included lots of solid pictures and visual Aids (very important for complex physical tasks, but also pretty pictures) and were, to a large extent, put out before the era when these were just drowning in Bureaucratic double-talk, process nonsense, entire org chart chapters, and corporatese word count padding. It is truly tragic where technology has advanced and you need to read the new editions.

2. Even better: Books written by lone obsessive weirdos with unique experiences. Loompanic and Paladin Press classics. What the wise souls at the internet Archive stash under “Folksconomy”. If you find yourself reading something by a mysterious “Major [retired]” with an axe to grind and an asian wife, and a unique interpretation of the constitution… or a mysterious German writing from a Latin American or Southern African country in the 70s… or some aging autistic American punk who’d been through all the levels of juvie by age 15 in spite of his unnervingly high chemistry and SAT Grades. You know you’re in for a treat.

You may not set those books down with any more “Wisdom”… but you will certainly be more knowledgeable.

Sure some of them are entirely made up bullshit: my mastery of dark arts of Dim Mak, the legendary Death Touch, have not allowed me to rise up the ranks of the South-East Asian no-quarter mortal kombat death tournaments like Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport…

But the US government gave them no end of legal troubles for their assassin manuals, and even that didn’t stop the US military from citing and recommending dozens upon dozens of Paladin Press books in their subsequent field Manuals. Even as the courts and department of justice were arguing the first amendment didn’t protect Paladin, the spooks were reading and studying them.

Once you strip away the 80s cheese and vague cash-in order by-flyer nonsense… when you get to the sparkling radioactive gems in the rough…

Well let’s just say that when Mike Pondsmith wrote the literary masterpieces that were the original Cyberpunk 2020 Manuals and included accurate wound ballistics, tactics, and developing military technology… He was drawing from a very rich and established tradition of mercenary trade publications, specialist books and mil/sport techno-futurism.

And now that we’re in the actual 2020s… Those neon dreams are becoming reality.

Left: Integrated Visual Augmentation System Right: Cyberpunk 2077 Announcement trailer (2013)

THe cyberpunk 80s vision of a world where Military, paramilitary, insurgency, espionage, organized crime, hooliganism, philosophy, and political dissent all merge in a kaleidoscope of Gibsonian information overload, culture war, and pure punk invention… at once dystopianly threatening and tantalizingly empowering. That future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

And a clear understanding of that future, a future that conventional military forces won’t and largely can’t comprehend, that’s an edge that even the smallest, least capable groups can have.

The next global military and political revolution is around the corner and it is very likely some of the people reading this could become the defining military, political, and financial figures of that era. they might even be able to afford to buy paid subscriptions to this blog… Hint, hint 👀).

ANYWAY… this reading list grew out of a personal list I was making for myself to keep my reading straight. Currently there are over 120 texts and videos listed and sorted into 22 topics.

Including:

I. Ethos
II. Individual Skills, Fighting, and Attitude
III. Insurgency and Guerrilla Warfare
-III.2: The Communist-Totalitarian Guerrilla Model
-III.3: The Euro-American Far-Right Model
-(Pending) III.4: The Islamic-Extremist Model
IV. Special Operations: Theory and Techniques
V. Crime, Espionage, Counter Intelligence, and Unconventional/Clandestine Operations
VI. Intelligence and Comms
VII. Digital OPSEC
VIII. Financing
IX. Infantry, and Unmounted Combat
X. Ground Mounted Operations and Vehicle Combat
XI. Warfare at the High Level: Understanding Modern Militaries, Strategies, and Operations
XII. Artillery
XIII. logistics
XIV. Precision Marksmanship, Advanced Sniper Skills, and Tactics
XV. Combat, and Survival Medicine
XVI. Survival and Specific Operational Environments
XVII. Amphibious Warfare
XVIII. Special Tactics and Insertions
XIX. CBRN Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear
XX. Morale and Personnel Management
XXI. Modern Case Studies
XXII. Micro and Macro-Diplomacy: Profiting and Surviving Within and At The End of Conflict

These are arranged VAGUELY in the order that I think it’s relevant to learn them… But that’s going to vary massively from individual to individual, group to group, and situation to situation.

An already talented shooter might feel called to START with the most advanced books in the precision marksmanship section, a novice shooter who’s bought his first Ar-15 might find those works to be greek and start with the simpler works under individual skills… And someone might be reading this on a smuggled cell phone in prison and not bother with anything firearms related at all, skipping instead to the works on advanced lockpicking and penetration.

Likewise someone who’s already a scuba diver might be VERY interested in the 900 page military diving manual buried down under Special Tactics and insertions, whereas 95% of readers probably won’t click the link, even though it has the full PDF at the end of it.

Note: ALL the links are to the full PDF.
(those without links however you have to buy, or hunt down on the high seas)

However the vision is that by simply reading 1 of the books a week in order of relevance to their specific case and cause… an intelligent and motivated person could get themself to the level of knowledge if not competence of a historically average lieutenant within a year, and that by continuing that over the next year, both continuing the list, and digging through the bibliographies, they might become a person of minor historical significance with 2-3 years.

You might think that’s extremely ambitious and even presumptuous! “What!? You’re just going to read your way out the fact you never attended a service academy and have no military experience whatsoever? You think people are just going to autodidact their way onto the pages of world history like some Cyber-Autist Anarchist homeschool kid?”

I mean… that’s what several of the figures on this list did.

And they’ve conveniently written books about how they did it.

War, conflict, crime, and politics are all fields where committed amateurs have had extraordinary and terrifying impacts upon both the fields and history… Dig through the deadliest and most successful warriors, warlords, and tyrants of the past century and you will find a shocking percentage of the most important NEVER went through a service academy. Indeed one could even say the central challenge “Liberal Democracy” has given itself over the past 80ish years is how to prevent such figures from self-educating and rising again.

And judging by the handwringing about fascism and “Our Democracy” they don’t seem very convinced they’ve succeeded.

History wants to happen!