The San Jose Mercury News recently (2/13/05) published the
booklists for our army. I didn't know there were reading groups in the
army...
Here's the ASSIGNED reading for Gen.
John R. Vines' top staff members:
Islam: A Short History, by Karen Armstrong
Islam for Dummies, by Malcolm Clark
Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, by John L. Esposito
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, by Sandra Mackey
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam, by H. R. McMaster
The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order, by Samuel P
Huntington
Here's Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter
Schoomaker's list of recommended reading (by ranks):
For cadets, soldiers and junior non-coms:
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from
Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, by Stephen E. Ambros
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang -- the battle that changed the
war in Vietnam, by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
In the Company of Heroes: a true story, by Michael J. Durant and Steven
Hartov
For company-level officers and non-coms:
Personal Memoir: U.S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant
Leadership: the Warrior's Art, by Christopher Kolenda
For Midlevel Officers and Senior non-coms:
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror,
by Rohan Gunaratna
On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
For Senior Leaders above Brigade Level:
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: understanding Globalization, by Thomas
Friedman
The Peloponnesian Way, by Donald Kagan
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and the Lies that lead to Vietnam, by J. R. McMaster
Transformation under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights, by Douglas
A Macgregor
For
the complete army reading list, go to their website
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