Preparing the mind for battle

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Preparing the mind for battle


Originally published Dec 18, 2003





On the theory that preparing the mind for battle is as important as preparing the body, the top officer in each service provides a reading list of recommended books for enlisted personnel to commissioned officers. The Marine Corps, which for many Americans has the image of being the toughest of the tough, offers the most extensive reading list, with about 175 books divided among each rank.

They include classics on warfare, such as The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (for staff sergeants and lieutenants); and The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (for colonels). The U.S. Constitution is recommended for low-ranking enlisted personnel and junior officers.

There are memoirs by enemies, including World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and by Civil War generals, such as William Tecumseh Sherman. There are books on courage, firepower and military innovation. And there are best sellers, such as Fields of Fire, by former Navy Secretary James H. Webb Jr., and Diplomacy, by former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. There are heroic tales and examinations of stunning defeats.

For senior officers, the largest category centers on the Vietnam War. "Marines are expected to read at least two books a year from this list," according to the list's introduction. "The lessons learned from the books can be used to be better leaders both in and out of the Corps."

Following is a sampling of books from the list of recommendations by Marine Corps rank, compiled by Tom Bowman, The Sun's military affairs reporter.



Private, private first class, lance corporal



Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein. A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe - and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.


The Bridge at Dong Ha, by John Grider Miller. On Easter morning 1972, Marine Capt. John Ripley, the sole U.S. adviser to the tough 3rd Battalion of the South Vietnamese marines, braved intense enemy fire to blow up a bridge and stop a major invasion from the north.


Corporal and sergeant




The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. One of the greatest war novels, it is the story of the Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier.


The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West, by William H. Leckie. Chronicles the importance of African-American units in the conquest of the West.


Second lieutenant and first lieutenant



Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship, by J.F.C. Fuller. An analysis of the Civil War battles commanded by Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee; argues that Grant was among the best generals ever.


How We Won the War, by Vo Nguyen Giap. North Vietnam's military commander discusses "just wars of national liberation" from tactics for insurgency operations to the political guidelines for enlisting the populace on the insurgent's side.


Captain



Once a Legend: "Red" Mike Edson of the Marine Raiders, by Jon T. Hoffman. Edson earned the Medal of Honor and lasting fame during a desperate, two-day defense of Guadalcanal's vital airfield.


On Guerrilla Warfare, by Mao Tse-tung. Written by the future Chinese leader in 1937, it served as an instruction manual for guerrilla fighting.


Major



Guerrilla Warfare, by Che Guevara. A leader of the 1959 overthrow in Cuba discusses the need for revolution to topple governments in Latin America. He details his style of hit-and-run tactics that proved successful.


It Doesn't Take a Hero : The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The general who commanded U.S. and allied forces in the 1991 Persian Gulf war talks about his life, from his teen-age years spent in the Middle East to his time as a young officer in Vietnam and then to the gulf war.


Lieutenant colonel



Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Considered among the best military memoirs, the two-volume work was published by Mark Twain and completed in the last month of the Civil War general's life. He offers firsthand accounts of the waging of war.


Take That Hill! Royal Marines in the Falklands War, by Nick Vaux. The book chronicles the actions of Britain's 42 Commando Royal Marines and their actions in the Falklands during the 1982 war with Argentina.


Colonel




The Marine Corps Search for a Mission 1880-1898, by Jack Shulimson. Although the Marines distinguished themselves fighting on the Barbary Coast, their essential mission and identity remained unclear throughout most of the 19th century. The book tells how the Marine Corps got out from under the thumb of the Navy and became a distinct and separate branch of the military.


Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1891-1939, by Robert A. Doughty. Discusses the failure of the French Army to turn back the Nazi attacks in the spring of 1940. Although France possessed the technology to fight, it lacked the right tactics and leadership.


Brigadier general through general



The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam. The story of how the U.S. got involved in Vietnam through the "best and brightest" policymakers appointed by John F. Kennedy.


Maverick Marine: General Smedley Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History, by Hans Schmidt. A two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Butler, beginning in 1898, served on American foreign military expeditions from Cuba to the Philippines, China, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, France and China. After a rescinded court-martial and premature retirement in 1931, he renounced war and devoted his energies to causes ranging from labor unions to the anti-war movement of the 1930s.


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PRIMARY READING LIST BY GRADE AND CATEGORY (LISTED AS AUTHOR,
TITLE, SUBJECT CATEGORY):

A. PRIVATE, PRIVATE FIRST CLASS, AND LANCE CORPORAL. READ AT
LEAST TWO BOOKS ANNUALLY FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:

- FORESTER, RIFLEMAN DODD (COURAGE AND COMMITMENT)
- HEINLEIN, STARSHIP TROOPERS (TRAINING)
- HUBBARD, A MESSAGE TO GARCIA (MEMOIR)
- MILLER, THE BRIDGE AT DONG-HA (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/
BATTLES)
- SIMMONS, U.S. MARINES: 1775-1975 (HERITAGE)
- U.S. CONSTITUTION (POLICY)
- WEBB, FIELDS OF FIRE (LEADERSHIP)

B. CORPORAL AND SERGEANT. READ AT LEAST TWO BOOKS ANNUALLY FROM
THE FOLLOWING LIST:

- BARBER, THE WAR OF THE RUNNING DOGS: THE MALAYAN
EMERGENCY, 1948-1962 (SMALL WARS)
- CAMPBELL, THE OLD MAN'S TRAIL (SMALL WARS)
- CARD, ENDER'S GAME (TACTICS)
- CHAPIN, UNCOMMON MEN: SERGEANTS MAJOR OF THE MARINE CORPS
(LEADERSHIP)
- CRANE, THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (TACTICS)
- DAVIS, MARINE: THE LIFE OF LTGEN LEWIS B. (CHESTY) PULLER,
USMC(RET) (BIOGRAPHY)
- HAMMEL, FIRE IN THE STREETS: THE BATTLE FOR HUE, TET, 1968
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- LECKIE, THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS: A NARRATIVE OF THE NEGRO
CAVALRY IN THE WEST (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- LECKIE, STRONG MEN ARMED: THE UNITED STATES MARINES
AGAINST JAPAN (HERITAGE)
- MARSHALL, SOLDIER'S LOAD AND THE MOBILITY OF A NATION
(TACTICS)
- MCCORMICK, THE RIGHT KIND OF WAR (HERITAGE)
- SCHELL, BATTLE LEADERSHIP (LEADERSHIP)
- SWINTON, THE DEFENSE OF DUFFER'S DRIFT (TACTICS)
- THOMASON, FIX BAYONETS! (HERITAGE)
- URIS, BATTLE CRY (HERITAGE)
- WEST, THE VILLAGE (SMALL WARS)

C. STAFF SERGEANT, WARRANT OFFICER, CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 2,
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 3, SECOND LIEUTENANT, AND FIRST LIEUTENANT.
READ AT LEAST THREE BOOKS ANNUALLY FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:

- AMBROSE, BAND OF BROTHERS: E CO, 506TH REGIMENT, 101ST
AIRBORNE: FROM NORMANDY TO HITLER'S EAGLE'S NEST (LEADERSHIP)
- AMBROSE, PEGASUS BRIDGE: JUNE 6, 1944 (LEADERSHIP)
- ASPREY, WAR IN THE SHADOWS: THE GUERRILLA IN HISTORY
(SMALL WARS)
- COLLINS, COMMON SENSE TRAINING: A WORKING PHILOSOPHY FOR
LEADERS (TRAINING)
- ENGLISH AND GUDMUNDSSON, ON INFANTRY (HISTORY)
- FULLER, GRANT AND LEE: A STUDY IN PERSONALITY AND
GENERALSHIP (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- GIAP, HOW WE WON THE WAR (SMALL WARS)
- HAGAN, AMERICAN GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY AND THE OLD NAVY,
1877-1889 (SEAPOWER)
- HOLMES, ACTS OF WAR: THE BEHAVIOR OF MEN IN BATTLE
(MEMOIR)
- HYNES, FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE: REFLECTIONS OF A WORLD WAR II
AVIATOR (HERITAGE)
- KEEGAN, THE FACE OF BATTLE (HISTORY)
- LAQUER AND ALEXANDER, TERRORISM READER: A HISTORICAL
ANTHOLOGY (SMALL WARS)
- LIDDELL HART, STRATEGY (STRATEGY)
- LIND, MANEUVER WARFARE HANDBOOK (TACTICS)
- MANNING, THE MIDDLE PARTS OF FORTUNE: SOMME AND ANCRE,
1916 (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- MOORE AND GALLOWAY, WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE AND YOUNG:
IA DRANG, THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM (LEADERSHIP)
- MOSKIN, THE U.S. MARINE CORPS STORY (HERITAGE)
- MOSKOS, THE MILITARY: MORE THAN JUST A JOB (STRATEGY)
- NOLAN, OPERATION BUFFALO: USMC FIGHT FOR THE DMZ
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- NYE, CHALLENGE OF COMMAND: A READING FOR MILITARY
EXCELLENCE (LEADERSHIP)
- ROMMEL, ATTACKS (TACTICS)
- ROSS, IWO JIMA: LEGACY OF VALOR (HERITAGE)
- SAJER, THE FORGOTTEN SOLDIER: THE CLASSIC WWII
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (MEMOIR)
- SCALES, FIREPOWER IN LIMITED WAR (SMALL WARS)
- SHAARA, THE KILLER ANGELS (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- SHERROD, TARAWA: THE STORY OF A BATTLE (HERITAGE)
- SULZBERG, THE FALL OF EAGLES (AIR POWER)
- SUN TZU, ART OF WAR (THEORY)
- U.S. CONSTITUTION (POLICY)
- WILLOCK, UNACCUSTOMED TO FEAR: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE
GENERAL ROY S. GIEGER, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS (HERITAGE)

D. GUNNERY SERGEANT, FIRST SERGEANT, MASTER SERGEANT, CHIEF
WARRANT OFFICER 4, AND CAPTAIN. READ AT LEAST FOUR BOOKS
ANNUALLY FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:

- ARDANT DU PICQ, BATTLE STUDIES: ANCIENT AND MODERN BATTLES
(TACTICS)
- CHALIAND, GUERRILLA STRATEGIES: A HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY
FROM THE LONG MARCH TO AFGHANISTAN (SMALL WARS)
- DOUGHTY, THE BREAKING POINT: SEDAN AND THE FALL OF FRANCE,
1940 (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- FALL, STREET WITHOUT JOY (SMALL WARS)
- HACKETT, PROFESSION OF ARMS (MEMOIR)
- HASTINGS, BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS (SEAPOWER)
- HEINL, VICTORY AT HIGH TIDE: THE INCHON-SEOUL CAMPAIGN
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- HIGGINBOTHAM, THE WAR OF THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE:
MILITARY ATTITUDES, POLICIES, AND PRACTICE (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS
/BATTLES)
- HOFFMAN, ONCE A LEGEND: "RED MIKE" EDSON OF THE MARINE RAIDERS (HERITAGE)
- HOOKER, MANEUVER WARFARE: AN ANTHOLOGY (THEORY)
- HORNE, THE PRICE OF GLORY: VERDUN, 1916 (OPERATIONS/
CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- INFANTRY SCHOOL (U.S.), INFANTRY IN BATTLE (TACTICS)
- ISELY & CROWL, THE U.S. MARINES AND AMPHIBIOUS WAR: ITS
THEORY, AND ITS PRACTICE IN THE PACIFIC (SEAPOWER)
- KEEGAN, THE PRICE OF ADMIRALTY: THE EVOLUTION OF NAVAL
WARFARE (SEAPOWER)
- KRULAK, FIRST TO FIGHT: AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE U.S. MARINE
CORPS (HERITAGE)
- LUPFER, THE DYNAMICS OF DOCTRINE: THE CHANGES IN GERMAN
TACTICAL DOCTRINE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (DOCTRINE)
- MACARTHUR, REMINISCENCES (MEMOIR)
- MACDONALD, COMPANY COMMANDER (MEMOIR)
- MAO TSE-TUNG, MAO TSE-TUNG ON GUERRILLA WARFARE
(SMALL WARS)
- MCDONOUGH, DEFENSE OF HILL 781 (TRAINING)
- MCPHERSON, BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA
(STRATEGY)
- MELLENTHIN, PANZER BATTLES: A STUDY OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF
ARMOR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (TACTICS)
- MEYER, COMPANY COMMAND: THE BOTTOM LINE (TRAINING)
- MILLETT, SEMPER FIDELIS: THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
MARINE CORPS (HERITAGE)
- MILLETT AND MASLOWSKI, FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE: A MILITARY
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (THEORY)
- MOOREHEAD, GALLIPOLI (THEORY)
- MORAN, THE ANATOMY OF COURAGE (LEADERSHIP)
- MYRER, ONCE AN EAGLE (LEADERSHIP)
- NAVMC 2890, SMALL WARS MANUAL (SMALL WARS)
- NEWMAN, FOLLOW ME, HUMAN ELEMENT IN LEADERSHIP (LEADERSHIP)
- O'BALLANCE, NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED: YOM KIPPUR WAR
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- PEPPERS, HISTORY OF U.S. MILITARY LOGISTICS, 1935-1985: A
BRIEF REVIEW (LOGISTICS)
- PULLER, FORTUNATE SON (HERITAGE)
- SEARS, LANDSCAPE TURNED RED: THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- SLEDGE, WITH THE OLD BREED AT PELELIU AND OKINAWA
(HERITAGE)
- SMITH, DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN ON LEADERSHIP (LEADERSHIP)
- SUMMERS, ON STRATEGY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE VIETNAM
WAR (STRATEGY) - TURLEY, THE EASTER OFFENSIVE, VIETNAM, 1972 (OPERATIONS/
CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- VAN CREVELD, AIRPOWER AND MANEUVER WARFARE (AIRPOWER)

E. MAJOR AND CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 5. READ AT LEAST FOUR BOOKS
ANNUALLY FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST:

- BAYNES, MORALE: A STUDY OF MEN AND COURAGE (LEADERSHIP)
- CATTON, GRANT TAKES COMMAND (MEMOIR)
- CLAUSEWITZ, ON WAR (THEORY)
- D'ESTE, PATTON: A GENIUS FOR WAR (BIOGRAPHY)
- FALL, HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE: THE SIEGE OF DIEN BIEN
PHU (SMALL WARS)
- FEHRENBACH, THIS KIND OF WAR: A STUDY IN UNPREPAREDNESS
(TACTICS)
- FRANK, GUADALCANAL: THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT (OPERATIONS/
CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- FRASER, KNIGHT'S CROSS: A LIFE OF FIELD MARSHALL ERWIN
ROMMEL (HISTORY)
- GRIFFITH, FORWARD INTO BATTLE: FIGHTING TACTICS FROM
WATERLOO TO VIETNAM (TACTICS)
- GUEVARA, CHE GUEVARA ON GUERRILLA WARFARE (SMALL WARS)

- HAMMEL, CHOSIN: HEROIC ORDEAL OF THE KOREAN WAR (HERITAGE)
- HIGGINBOTHAM, GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY
TRADITION (STRATEGY)
- LEJEUNE, REMINISCENCES OF A MARINE (HERITAGE)
- MERSKY, U.S. MARINE CORPS AVIATION: 1912 TO THE PRESENT
(AIRPOWER)
- PARET, MAKERS OF MODERN STRATEGY: FROM MACHIAVELLI TO THE
NUCLEAR AGE (STRATEGY)
- PRANGE, AT DAWN WE SLEPT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PEARL HARBOR
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- ROBERTSON, DIEPPE: THE SHAME AND THE GLORY (TACTICS)
- SCHWARZKOPF, IT DOESN'T TAKE A HERO (MEMOIR)
- SHERROD, HISTORY OF MARINE CORPS AVIATION IN WWII
(AIRPOWER)
- SHY, A PEOPLE NUMEROUS AND ARMED: REFLECTIONS ON THE
MILITARY STRUGGLE FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE (SMALL WARS)
- SLIM, DEFEAT INTO VICTORY (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- SPECTOR, EAGLE AGAINST THE SUN: THE AMERICAN WAR WITH
JAPAN (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- VAN CREVALD, COMMAND IN WAR (COMMAND)
- VAN CREVALD, SUPPLYING WAR: LOGISTICS FROM WALLENSTEIN TO
PATTON (LOGISTICS)
F. MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT, SERGEANT MAJOR, AND LIEUTENANT
COLONEL. READ AT LEAST FOUR BOOKS ANNUALLY FROM THE
FOLLOWING LIST:

- BAER, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SEAPOWER: THE U.S. NAVY
1890-1990 (SEAPOWER)
- BENNETT, ULTRA IN THE WEST: THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN,
1944-1945 (INTELLIGENCE)
- BUELL, THE QUIET WARRIOR: A BIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL RAYMOND
A. SPRUANCE (MEMOIR)
- GORDON & TRAINOR, THE GENERAL'S WAR: THE INSIDE STORY OF
THE CONFLICT IN THE GULF (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- JAMES, THE YEARS OF MACARTHUR (LEADERSHIP)
- KEISER, THE U.S. MARINE CORPS AND DEFENSE UNIFICATION
1944-47: THE POLITICS OF SURVIVAL (HERITAGE)
- KOHN, EAGLE AND SWORD: THE FEDERALISTS AND THE CREATION OF
THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT IN AMERICA, 1783-1802 (POLICY)
- KREPINEVICH, THE ARMY AND VIETNAM (SMALL WARS)
- LONG, PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT (MEMOIR)
- MILLETT, IN MANY A STRIFE: GENERAL GERALD C. THOMAS AND
THE U.S. MARINE CORPS, 1917-1956 (HERITAGE)
MURRAY, THE MAKING OF STRATEGY (STRATEGY)
- NEWMAN, FOLLOW ME II: MORE ON THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN
LEADERSHIP (TACTICS)
- PAGONIS, MOVING MOUNTAINS: LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP AND
LOGISTICS FROM THE GULF WAR (LOGISTICS)
- TRAVERS, HOW THE WAR WAS WON (TACTICS)
- VAUX, TAKE THAT HILL: ROYAL MARINES IN THE FALKLANDS WAR
(OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- WHITE, THE ENLIGHTENED SOLDIER: SCHARNHORST AND THE
MILITARISCHE GESELLSCHAFT IN BERLIN, 1801-1805 (HISTORY)
- WOODWARD, 100 DAYS: THE MEMOIRS OF THE FALKLANDS BATTLE
GROUP COMMANDER (MEMOIR)

G. COLONEL. READ AT LEAST FOUR BOOKS ANNUALLY FROM THE
FOLLOWING LIST:

- AMBROSE, THE SUPREME COMMANDER; THE WAR YEARS OF GENERAL
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (MEMOIR)
- BRENNAN, FOUNDATIONS OF MORAL OBLIGATION: THE STOCKDALE
COURSE (LEADERSHIP)
- CHANDLER, THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/
BATTLES)
- COHEN, MILITARY MISFORTUNES: THE ANATOMY OF FAILURE IN WAR
(THEORY)
- CRAY, GENERAL OF THE ARMY: GEORGE C. MARSHALL, SOLDIER AND
STATESMAN (MEMOIR)
- DOUGHTY, SEEDS OF DISASTER: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH ARMY
DOCTRINE, 1919-1939 (TACTICS)
- ECCLES, LOGISTICS IN THE NATIONAL DEFENSE (LOGISTICS)
- FLICKE, WAR SECRETS IN THE ETHER: THE USE OF SIGNALS
INTELLIGENCE BY THE GERMAN MILITARY IN WWII (INTELLIGENCE)
- FORESTER, THE GENERAL (LEADERSHIP)
- FRIEDMAN, FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM (SMALL WARS)
- HORNE, A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA, 1954-1962
(SMALL WARS)
- HORNE, TO LOSE A BATTLE: FRANCE, 1940 (OPERATIONS/
CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- KENNEDY, THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH NAVAL MASTERY
(SEAPOWER)
- MILLETT & MURRAY, MILITARY INNOVATION IN THE INTERWAR
PERIOD (POLICY)
- MURRAY, LUFTWAFFE (AIRPOWER)
- O'NEILL, A DEMOCRACY AT WAR: AMERICA'S FIGHT AT HOME AND
ABROAD IN WWII (STRATEGY)
- PALMER, THE 25-YEAR WAR: AMERICA'S MILITARY ROLE IN
VIETNAM (STRATEGY)
- POTTER, NIMITZ (BIOGRAPHY)
- RIDGEWAY, KOREAN WAR (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- RYAN, A BRIDGE TOO FAR (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- SHULIMSON, THE MARINE CORPS SEARCH FOR A MISSION 1880-1898
(HERITAGE)
- SIMPKIN, RACE TO THE SWIFT: THOUGHTS ON TWENTY FIRST
CENTURY WARFARE (THEORY)
- SMYTHE, PERSHING, GENERAL OF THE ARMIES (BIOGRAPHY)
- THUCYDIDES, THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR (STRATEGY)
- TRAVERS, THE KILLING GROUND: THE BRITISH ARMY, THE WESTERN
FRONT, AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN WARFARE, 1900-1918 (TACTICS)
- VAN TIEN DUNG, OUR GREAT SPRING VICTORY: AN ACCOUNT OF THE
LIBERATION OF SOUTH VIETNAM (SMALL WARS)
- VANDEGRIFT, ONCE A MARINE: THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL A. A.
VANDEGRIFT, USMC (HERITAGE)
- WEIGLEY, EISENHOWER'S LIEUTENANTS: THE CAMPAIGN OF FRANCE
AND GERMANY, 1944-1945 (MEMOIR)

H. GENERALS. SELECT FROM THE BOOKS LISTED BELOW.
- BARTLETT, LEJEUNE: A MARINE'S LIFE, 1867-1942 (HERITAGE)
- FULLER, GENERALSHIP, ITS DISEASES AND THEIR CURE: A STUDY
OF THE PERSONAL FACTOR IN COMMAND (THEORY)
- HALBERSTAM, THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST (POLICY)
- KAGAN, ON THE ORGINS OF WAR AND THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE
(STRATEGY)
- KENNEDY, RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS: ECONOMIC
CHANGE AND MILITARY CONFLICT FROM 1500-2000 (SINEWS)
- KISSINGER, DIPLOMACY (STRATEGY)
- MACDONALD, GIAP: THE VICTOR IN VIETNAM (SMALL WARS)
- MCNAMARA, IN RETROSPECT: THE TRAGEDY AND LESSONS OF
VIETNAM (STRATEGY)
- MOORE, A WOMAN AT WAR: STORMING KUWAIT WITH THE U.S.
MARINES (OPERATIONS/CAMPAIGNS/BATTLES)
- MURRAY, AIRWAR IN THE GULF (DOCTRINE)
- NEWMAN, WHAT ARE GENERALS MADE OF? (THEORY)
- POWELL, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY (LEADERSHIP)
- ROYSTER, MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN (MEMOIR)
- SCHMIDT, MAVERICK MARINE: GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER AND THE
CONTRADICTIONS OF AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY (HERITAGE)
- SHEEHAN, A BRIGHT SHINING LIE: JOHN PAUL VANN AND AMERICA
IN VIETNAM (SMALL WARS)
- TIMBERG, THE NIGHTINGALE'S SONG (MEMOIR)
- TWINING, NO BENDED KNEE (HERITAGE)

6. CURRENT ISSUES READING LIST. ALL MARINES SHOULD READ AT LEAST
ONE BOOK FROM EACH OF THE FOLLOWING TWO GROUPINGS (MILITARY AFFAIRS
AND NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES AND PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETAL ISSUES),
ANNUALLY. THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE LISTED BY SUBJECT CATEGORY, TITLE,
AND AUTHOR (IN PARENTHESIS):

A. MILITARY AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES:

- ROLES AND MISSIONS:
(1) AMERICA'S CUTTING EDGE: U.S. MARINE CORPS
ROLES AND MISSIONS (GREENWOOD AND NEIMEYER)

PEACE OPERATIONS:
(1) ANGELS FROM THE SEA: RELIEF OPERATIONS IN
BANGLADESH (SMITH);
(2) NATO: FROM BERLIN TO BOSNIA (DREW);
(3) PEACEKEEPER (MCKENZIE)

- REVOLUTIONS IN MILITARY AFFAIRS:
(1) 1995-1996 BRASSEY'S MERSHON AMERICAN DEFENSE
ANNUAL (MURRAY);
(2) WAR AND ANTI-WAR (TOFFLER AND TOFFLER)

- INFORMATION WARFARE:
(1) INFORMATION WARFARE (SCWARTAU);
(2) THE FIRST INFORMATION WAR (CAMPEN);
(3) WHAT IS INFORMATION WARFARE? (LIBICKI)

- INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
(1) MANAGING NON-PROLIFERATION REGIMES IN
THE 1990'S (VAN HAM);
(2) NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION: A PRIMER (REINER)

- MILITARY AND THE MEDIA:
(1) BIG STORY (BRAESTRUP);
(2) HOTEL WARRIORS (FIALKA)

B. PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIETAL ISSUES:

- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
(1) SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE (COVEY);
(2) TAKING CHARGE, MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES (SMITH);
(3) THE DEMING MANAGEMENT METHOD (WALTON);
(4) THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE (SENGE)

- CULTURAL DIVERSITY:
(1) BEYOND RACE AND GENDER (THOMAS);
(2)CULTURAL DIVERSITY MANUAL (BUCHEN);
(3) TWO NATIONS: BLACK AND WHITE, SEPARATE,
HOSTILE, UNEQUAL (HACKER)

- ETHICS:
(1) BOOK OF VIRTUES (BENNETT);
(2) INTEGRITY (CARTER)

- WOMEN IN THE MILITARY:
(1) PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON THE ASSIGNMENT OF WOMEN
IN THE ARMED FORCES, 15 NOV 1992;
(2) STEP FORWARD (WEBB);
(3) WOMAN MARINE (YIANILOS);
(4) WOMEN AND WAR (ELSHTAIN)

Sempers,

Roger