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War Scholar | Chair of War Studies Madison Policy Forum | Executive Director @urbanwarfareins | UWP podcast | Thoughts/Posts my own RT/Quote/Like ≠ Official Gov
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"Ernest Hemingway couldn't have made up the real life of John Spencer. Facing Bullets, Bombs, and Bees (yes, bees, he was actually attacked by killer bees), Spencer writes about his adventures with humility, relatability, and humor. this book will leave you hungry for the next time he almost dies." -- Max Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of World War Z, Devolution, and the official Minecraft novels. amazon.com/Twenty-Times-A…
www.amazon.com Twenty Times I Almost Died: Life Lessons from the Edge of Survival How do you live after narrowly escaping death? In John Spencer, a soldier, father, and one of the world’s leading experts on urban warfare, shares gripping true stories drawn from a lifetime spent on...
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Tomorrow Azerbaijan celebrates the sixth anniversary of their victory during the Second Karabakh War. November 8, 2020. While @LiamSCollins and I were there last week to launch our book that details how Azerbaijan achieved such a decisive victory, we stopped by their victory museum in Baku. The book debunks the myth that the war was won mainly with drones and autonomous systems, rather showing it was won through decades of preparation using all tools of national power and in the war through proper use of force employment, mission command, and tough ground fights requiring soldiers to climb mountains with heavy load, mechanized and motorized formation to cross miles of obstacle belts, and decisions in uncertainty from the President, commanders in the field, to the individual soldier. Check out our book @amazon or @CambriaPress to learn more: amazon.com/War-Karabakh-S…
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Only a couple of days left on our Azerbaijan book tour week. Many highlights. Especially our Baku Book Center presentation.
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