Marine Reading List 2019
Interesting
kitt decided around 17:02 on 4 November 2019 to publish this:
Reading Call Sign Chaos, Mattis comments the Marines has an updated nominally yearly reading list for Marines.
Huh.
Like, full on HUH.
So, here's my new reading list, in alphabetical order, but you can be sure that won't be my reading order.
| A World in Disarray | R. Haas | |
| Achilles in Vietnam | J. Shay | |
| After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam | L. Hazelton | |
| read | All Quiet On the Western Front | E. Remarque |
| American Spartans | J. Warren | |
| Another Bloody Century | C. Gray | |
| Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare | M. Bartlett | |
| Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in A Bureaucracy | P. Smith and D. Gerstein | |
| At The Water's Edge: Defending against the Modern Amphibious Assault | T. Gatchel | |
| Attacks | E. Rommel | |
| Battle Cry | L. Uris | |
| Battle Leadership | A. Von Schell | |
| Black Hearts | J. Frederick | |
| Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reform | P. Saunders, A. Ding, A. Scobell, A. Yang, and J. Wuthnow | |
| Chesty | J. Hoffman | |
| Cobra II: The Inside Story Of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq | M. Gordon and B. Trainor | |
| Command Culture | J. Muth | |
| Corps Values | Z. Miller | |
| read | Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon | K. Zetter |
| Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It | I. Leslie | |
| Defeat into Victory | W. Slim | |
| Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff And the Lies That Led to Vietnam | H. McMaster | |
| Diplomacy | H. Kissinger | |
| read | Ender's Game | O. Card |
| Every War Must End | F. Ikle | |
| Fields of Fire | J. Webb | |
| First to Fight | LtGen. V. Krulak | |
| Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations | W. Hughes and R. Girrier | |
| Forgotten Warriors | T. Hammes | |
| read | Gates of Fire | S. Pressfield |
| Ghost Fleet | P. Singer and A. Cole | |
| read | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | A. Duckworth |
| Guns of August | B. Tuchman | |
| Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam | M. Bowden | |
| I'm Staying with My Boys | J. Proser and J. Cutter | |
| Into The Tiger's Jaw | F. Petersen and J. Phelps | |
| Just and Unjust Wars | M. Walzer | |
| Leading Change | J. Kotter | |
| Left of Bang | P. Van Horne and J. Riley | |
| Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership | J. Kerr | |
| Little Book Of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World | G. Ip | |
| Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future | A. McAfee and E. Brynjolfsson | |
| Military Innovation in the Interwar Period | W. Murray and A. Millett | |
| Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power | R. Kaplan | |
| My Men Are My Heroes | N. Helms | |
| Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal | J. Hornfischer | |
| No Bended Knee | M. Twining | |
| Non-Obvious: How to Predict Trends and Win the Future | R. Bhargava | |
| On Call in Hell | R. Jadick | |
| On Combat | D. Grossman | |
| On Combat: the Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace | D. Grossman | |
| On Killing | D. Grossman | |
| Once an Eagle | A. Myrer | |
| Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla | D. Kilcullen | |
| Outliers | M. Gladwell | |
| read | Ready Player One | E. Cline |
| Resilience | E. Greitens | |
| Rifleman Dodd | C. Forester | |
| read | Starship Troopers | R. Heinlein |
| Start with Why | S. Sinek | |
| Stilwell and the American Experience In China: 1911-1945 | B. Tuchman | |
| Storming the City: US Military Performance in Urban Warfare from WWII to Vietnam | A. Wahlman | |
| Strategy: A History | L. Freedman | |
| Supreme Command: Soldiers Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime | E. Cohen | |
| Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | D. Goodwin | |
| Team of Teams | S. McChrystal and T. Collins | |
| The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West | K. Frieser | |
| The Changing Face of War | M. Van Creveld | |
| The Defense of Duffers Drift | E. Swinton | |
| The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat | J. McDonough | |
| The Face of Battle | J. Keegan | |
| The Federalist Papers | A. Hamilton | |
| read | The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | K. Kelly |
| The Innovators Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail | C. Christensen | |
| The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | W. Isaacson | |
| read | The Killer Angels | M. Shaara |
| The Landmark Thucydides | R. Strassler | |
| The Last Stand of Fox Company | B. Drury and T. Clavin | |
| The Leader's Bookshelf | J. Stavris | |
| The Marines of Montford Point | M. McLaurin | |
| The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security | G. Hammond | |
| The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate | R. Kaplan | |
| The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology | R. Kurzweil | |
| The Soldier and the State | S. Huntington | |
| The Starfish and the Spider | O. Brafman and R. Beckstrom | |
| The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World | R. Smith | |
| The Warrior Ethos | S. Pressfield | |
| The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle | J. Gray | |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | D. Kahneman | |
| This Kind of War | T. Fehrenbach | |
| Towards the Flame | H. Allen | |
| Treasury's War | J. Zarate | |
| War Made New | M. Boot | |
| We Were Soldiers Once… and Young | H. Moore and J. Galloway | |
| What It is Like to Go to War | K. Marlantes | |
| What Now Lieutenant? | Gen. R. Neal, USMC | |
| With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa | E. Sledge |
Updated: 2020/11/29 to mark Killer Angels, Grit, and Gates of Fire read.
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