Commanding General's Reading List
(Last updated 12 May 2023)
CURRENT BOOK IS:
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
By: Peter Attia MD
BOOKS
The Little Book of Economics​
By: Greg Ip
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
By: Clayton M. Christensen
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
By: Kevin Kelly
George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
By: David L. Roll
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
By: Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, USAF
War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination
By: Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, USAF
7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
By: John Antal
Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him
By: Merle Miller
The Best and the Brightest
By David Halberstam
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
By: Donald T. Phillips
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
From Beirut to Jerusalem
By Thomas L. Friedman
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
By: Stephen R. Covey
Truman
By David McCullough
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume 3: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
By: William Manchester & Paul Reid
The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy)
By: Jeff Shaara
Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy)
By: Jeff Shaara
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
By: Michael Shaara
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Leader's Bookshelf
By: R. Manning Ancell & ADM. James Stavridis, USN - Ret.
Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
By: Juan Zarate
Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card
Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations
By: Samuel P. Huntington
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
By: Colin Powell
Kim
By Rudyard Kipling
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
By: H. R. McMaster
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
By: Jim Mattis & Bing West
Thomas Aquinas
By G. K. Chesterton
Strategy: A History
By: Lawrence Freedman
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
By: Richard A. Clarke & Robert K. Knake
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
By: Eliot A. Cohen
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
By: Christian Brose