Akula: Is it just me or are you named after a Russian attack sub?
The three books I keep around fairly regularly are my Ranger Handbook, the SWM and Thucydides. I love the part in the SWM about how to run an election. We did actually use that section and it worked. Having not used mules, I cannot comment on the efficacy of that section, but with all things Smedley Butler, I gotta believe that would work, too.
The Marines are considered definite black magic in that part of the world. I’d ask what you were doing down there, but then you’d probably have to kill me following. Opsec and all that.
As to the housing bubble: Not entirely sure, but I hear there is this entire blog devoted to it…