United States Marine Corps Professional Reading List (Revised 3/11/2019)
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United States Marine Corps Professional Reading List (revised 3/11/2019) * Commandant’s Choice Books * (All Marines) First to Fight (Krulak) Machine, Platform, Crowd (McAfee) Hue 1968 (Bowden) Non-Obvious 2019 (Bhargara) The Leader’s Bookshelf (Stavridis) Warfighting (MCDP-1, USMC) Legacy: 15 Lessons in Leadership (Kerr) A World in Disarray (Haass) * Entry Level Enlisted * * Career Level Enlisted * (Recruit - Poolee) (Cpl – Sgt) Battle Cry (Uris) Battle Leadership (Von Schell) Corps Values (Miller) The Defense of Duffer’s Drift (Swinton) Gates of Fire (Pressfield) Ghost Fleet (Singer, Cole) Grit (Duckworth) The Killer Angels (Shaara) Starship Troopers (Heinlein) Left of Bang (Van Horne) On Combat (Grossman) * Entry Level Officer * On Killing (Grossman) (Candidate - Midshipman) Outliers (Gladwell) Battle Cry (Uris) Resilience (Greitens) Corps Values (Miller) The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Gates of Fire (Pressfield) Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Kaplan) I’m Staying with My Boys (Proser) We Were Soldiers Once…and Young (Moore, Galloway) The Killer Angels (Shaara) With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Sledge) My Men Are My Heroes (Helms) Starship Troopers (Heinlein) * Career Level Officer * (WO – CWO2 – Capt) * Primary Level Enlisted * Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious (Pvt - LCpl) Warfare (Bartlett) Chesty (Hoffman) Attacks (Rommel) Ender’s Game (Card) Black Hearts (Frederick) The Last Stand of Fox Company (Drury) Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends The Marines of Montford Point (McLaurin) on It (Leslie) On Call in Hell (Jadick) Forgotten Warriors (Hammes) Ready Player One (Cline) Into the Tiger’s Jaw (Petersen) Rifleman Dodd (Forester) Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal The Warrior Ethos (Pressfield) (Hornfischer) On Killing (Grossman) * Primary Level Officer * Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (2ndLt – 1stLt) (Kilcullen) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) The Starfish and the Spider (Brafman, Beckstrom) At the Water’s Edge: Defending Against the Modern This Kind of War (Fehrenbach) Amphibious Assault (Gatchel) War Made New (Boot) Chesty (Hoffman) What Now, Lieutenant? (Neal)** The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat (McDonough) * Intermediate Level Enlisted * Fields of Fire (Webb) (SSgt – GySgt) The Last Stand of Fox Company (Drury) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) The Marines of Montford Point (McLaurin) American Spartans (Warren) Ready Player One (Cline) The Changing Face of War (Van Creveld) What It Is Like to Go to War (Marlantes) With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Sledge) Fields of Fire (Webb) What Now, Lieutenant? (Neal) The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Isaacson) Leading Change (Kotter) My Men Are My Heroes (Helms) * Intermediate Level Enlisted * Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex (SSgt – GySgt) cont’d World (McChrystal) Once an Eagle (Myrer) Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman) * Senior Level Officer * This Kind of War (Fehrenbach) (CWO5, Col – Gen) Toward the Flame (Allen) Another Bloody Century (Gray) Assignment Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy (Smith, * Intermediate Level Officer * Gerstein) (CWO3 – CWO4 – Maj – LtCol) Chairman XI Remakes the PLA (Saunders) After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Islam (Hazleton) Staff and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (McMaster) The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West Diplomacy (Kissinger) (Frieser) Every War Must End (Ikle) Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of The Federalist Papers (Hamilton) Iraq (Gordon) The Guns of August (Tuchman) Command Culture (Muth) The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the That Will Shape Our Future (Kelly) World’s First Digital Weapon (Zetter) The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Defeat into Victory (Slim) Great Firms to Fail (Christensen) Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations (Hughes) The Landmark Thucydides (Strassler, Thucydides) The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Created the Digital Revolution (Isaacson) Real World (Ip) Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (Murray) The Soldier and the State (Huntington) The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 (Hammond) (Tuchman) Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Strategy: A History (Freedman) Power (Kaplan) Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Storming the City: U.S. Military Performance in Urban Wartime (Cohen) Warfare from WWII to Vietnam (Wahlman) Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex (Goodwin) World (McChrystal) Treasury’s War (Zarate) This Kind of War (Fehrenbach) The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World (Smith) The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle (Gray) * Senior Level Enlisted * (MSgt – 1stSgt – MGySgt – SgtMaj) Achilles in Vietnam (Shay) Command Culture (Muth) The Face of Battle (Keegan) Forgotten Warriors (Hammes) The Guns of August (Tuchman) The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Kelly) The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Christensen) Just and Unjust Wars (Walzer) No Bended Knee (Twining) On Combat (Grossman) The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Kurzweil) Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Sinek) .