MILITARY READING LIST REQUESTS
ARMY
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeiha
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare by Colin S. Gray
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force by Eliot A. Cohen
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq by Louis A. DiMarco
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khann
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Hew Strachan
The Future Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action by Matthew Burrow
The Future of Land Warfare by Michael E. O’Hanlo
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye J
Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post–Cold War Order by Hal Brand
No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn by Charles A. Kupcha
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharm
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinsk
Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the World by Ian Bremme
The World America Made by Robert Kaga
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass
World Order by Henry Kissinger
Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism by David Kilculle
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyde
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941–1945 by Francis Pike
Milestones by Sayyid Qutb
The Next Great War? The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict by Richard N. Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller, eds
The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power by Jakub J. Grygiel and A. Wess Mitchell
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1945 by Ian W. Toll
Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917–1945 by David E. Johnson
Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 by Max Hasting
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Tol
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 by Robert M. Citino
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Rick
Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Horn
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service by Robert M. Gates
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald J. Stoke
Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory by James M. Dubi
Reconsidering the American Way of War: U.S. Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan by Antulio J. Echevarria II
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy by Barry Pose
Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman
AIR FORCE
The Air Force Way of War by Brian D. Laslie
Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji; Anthony G. Greenwald
The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner
It Worked for Me by Colin Powell
Risk Intelligence by Dylan Evans
The ISIS Apocalypse by William McCants
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
We also had 2 books requested from the CIA reading list.
Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner