CORPORAL GUNNERY SERGEANT COMMANDANT’S CHOICE BOOK Afghanistan by Stephen Tanner Afghan Guerilla Warfare by Ali Ahmad Jalali MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT/ First to Fight: An Inside View of the U. S. Marine Corps All Quiet on the Western Frontt by Erich Maria Remarque and Lester W. Grau SERGEANT MAJOR by LtGen Victor H. Krulak Chosen Soldierr by Dick Couch Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss At the Water’s Edge: Defending Against the Modern RECRUIT/POOLEE Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides Island of the Damned by R. V. Burgin and Bill Marvel Amphibious Assaultt by Theodore Gatchel I’m Staying with My Boys by Jim Proser with Jerry Cutter Noble Warriorr by James E. Livingston, Colin D. Heaton, Killing Ground on Okinawa by James H. Hallas The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis The United States Marines: A History and Anne-Marie Lewis The Mission, the Men, and Me by Pete Blaber The Coldest Warr by James Brady by Edwin H. Simmons Once a Marine by Nick Popaditch and Mike Steere On Combatt by Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen Crisis Leadership by Gene Klann The Defence of Duffer’s Driftt by Ernest Dunlop Swinton Ride the Thunder by Richard Botkin The General by C. S. Forester PRIVATE/PRIVATE FIRST CLASS Marines in the Garden of Eden by Richard S. Lowry The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot The Mask of Command by John Keegan A Message to Garciaa by Elbert Hubbard Victory at High Tide by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr. No Bended Knee by Merril B. Twining Rifleman Dodd by C. S. Forester SERGEANT We Were Soldiers Once and Youngg by Harold G. Moore On War by Carl Von Clausewitz Blinkk by Malcolm Gladwell American Soldiers by Peter S. Kindsvatter and Joseph L. Galloway A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin 1984 by George Orwell Common Sense Trainingg by Arthur S. Collins, Jr. No True Gloryy by Bing Westt Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula MASTER SERGEANT/FIRST SERGEANT OFFICER CANDIDATE/MIDSHIPMAN The Gift of Valor by Michael M. Phillips From the Horse’s Mouth by Ted McKeldin The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen The Armed Forces Officer by Department of Defense The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Courageous Follower by Ira Chaleff My Men are My Heroes by Brad Kasal and LANCE CORPORAL A Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation Fields of Battle by John Keegan Nathaniel R. Helms The 360 Degree Leaderr by John C. Maxwell by S. L. A. Marshall Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes The United States Marines: A History The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger Ghost Wars by Steve Coll by Edwin H. Simmons My Men are My Heroes by Brad Kasal and The Village by Bing West The Guns of Augustt by Barbara W. Tuchman On Infantryy by John A. English Nathaniel R. Helms Tip of the Spear by G. J. Michaels The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge The Passion of Command by Bryan P. McCoy 2ND LIEUTENANT/WARRANT OFFICER/ The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and 7 Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 2 Eugene Burdick STAFF SERGEANT The Sling and the Stone by Thomas Hammes The Art of War by Sun-Tzu We Were One by Patrick K. O’Donnell A Bell for Adano by John Hersey Technology and Warr by MartinMartin L. Van Creveld Blinkk by Malcolm Gladwell American Spartans by James A. Warren Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai Leadership: The Warrior’s Artt by Christopher D. Kolenda, Attacks by Erwin Rommel Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., and Barry R. McCaffrey Battle Cryy by Leon Uris The Mission, the Men, and Me by Pete Blaber The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot The Face of Battle by John Keegan Soldiers of God by Robert D. Kaplan The Last Stand of Fox Companyy by Bob Drury The Speed of Trustt by Stephen M. R. Covey and Tom Clavin Storm Landings by Joseph H. Alexander McCoy’s Marines by John Koopman A Tactical Ethic by Dick Couch On Killingg by Dave Grossman The Village by Bing West Soldier of God by David Hagberg The Speed of Trustt by Stephen M. R. Covey 1ST LIEUTENANT/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 3 MAJOR/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 5 COLONEL TO GENERAL The First Seven Books Of This List Should Be Read In Crucible of War by Fred Anderson Another Bloody Century by Colin Gray United States Marine Corps Order As They Trace The Evolution Of Warfare From The Guns of Augustt by Barbara W. Tuchman The Coldest Winterr by David Halberstam First To Fourth Generation. In the Gray Area by Seth W. B. Folsom The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis Professional Reading List The Enlightened Soldier by Charles Edward White This Kind of Warr by T. R. Fehrenbach Decoding Clausewitzz by Jon Tetsuro Sumida Seeds of Disasterr by Robert Allan Doughty The Landmark Thucydides by Robert Strassler Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Stormtroop Tactics by Bruce I. Gudmundsson The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam “Strength of the Pack... Command or Control? by Martin Samuels Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick by H. R. McMaster The Breaking Pointt by Robert Allan Doughty The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman Diplomacyy by Henry Kissinger Strength of the Wolf ” Fighting Powerr by Martin L. Van Creveld Masters of Warr by Michael Handel Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the The Transformation of War by Martin L. Van Creveld Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer World by Raghuram G. Rajan Attacks by Erwin Rommel Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln How Wars End by Gideon S. Rose Battle Leadership by Adolf Von Schell by Doris Kearns Goodwin Poorer Richard’s Americaa by Tom Blair The Peloponnesian Warr by Donald Kagan Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief The Last Stand of Fox Companyy by Bob Drury by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss by James M. McPherson and Tom Clavin Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership by Joseph H. Alexander In Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen CAPTAIN/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 4 Wired for Warr by P. W. Singer The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough LIEUTENANT COLONEL Kaneohe Bay Library The General by C. S. Forester A Bell for Adano by John Hersey The Lions of Iwo Jimaa by Fred Haynes The Accidental Guerillaa by David Kilcullen Lost Victories by Erich Von Manstein At the Water’s Edge: Defending Against the Modern 254-7624 The Mask of Command by John Keegan Amphibious Assaultt by Theodore Gatchel The Passion of Command by Bryan P. McCoy The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Frieser Sources of Power by Gary Klein The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein Brute: The Life of Victor Krulakk by Robert Coram Camp H.M. Smith Branch Library The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson Victory at High Tide by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr. Defeat into Victoryy by William Slim 477-6348 We Were Soldiers Once and Youngg by Harold G. Moore Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes and Joseph L. Galloway A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

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