Commandant's Professional Reading List

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century, by Stanley Weintraub. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization, by Nayan Chanda. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Counterinsurgency Warfare:  Theory and Practice, by David Galula.  New York:  Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.

The Culture of War, by Martin Van Creveld. New York: Presidio Press, 2008.

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam, by H.R. McMaster. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul, by Michael Reid. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, by Thomas E. Ricks. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, by David E. Sanger. New York: Homony Books, 2009.

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, by John A. Nagl. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Lincoln´s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, by Ronald C. White. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922, by David Fromkin. New York: H. Holt, 1989.

The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan. New York: Knopf, 2008.

Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, by David J. Rothkopf. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006.

The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives, by Robert Guest. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004.

Swords and Ploughshares: Building Peace in the 21^st Century, by Paddy Ashdown. London: Phoenix, 2008.

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World, by Rupert Smith. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon, by James R. Locher. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002.

The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, by Bob Woodward. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind. New York: Harper, 2008.