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2. The glaring missing category is History

You can't know where you are going until you know where you came from.

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3. Do you happen to know

If the other military branches have reading lists such as this?

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5. That's ok thank you

Later I might try and do some googling around and see what I can find.

It looks like you served in the Navy so thank you for your service.

I plan on sharing your list so thank you again.

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8. Thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole this morning. :)

Okay here is what I found with a quick search. Hope this works for everyone.

I found several lists but mostly outdated so did not include lists of anything not 2020. But still could be interesting.
Under DODreads the Navy actually had a 2020 list. One branch under this link said it was 2020 but actually a older list.
I included all links as some are not actually in list format.

One note on the Marine list is Sgt Reckless actually it is by Robin Hutton not Sutton. Awesome read, I read it a few years ago and still remains a favorite read. I recommended it to several people all have enjoyed it.


USSOCOM Commander's Reading List 2020
https://jsou.libguides.com/readinglists

The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List (2017)
https://history.army.mil/html/books/105/105-1-1/index.html

Chief of Staff of the Air Force Professional Reading List
https://static.dma.mil/usaf/csafreadinglist/cmsaf.html

Military Books & Recommended Reading Lists
https://www.militaryreadinglist.com/service-reading-lists/air-force/

Pritzker Military museum & library
https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/topics/military-reading-lists1


DODReads
The Voice of what DOD is Reading…. (several out dated lists for some branches of military)
https://www.dodreads.com/military-reading-lists/

The 2020 Navy Reading List
 
The Cannon
1. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
2. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
4. Enchiridion by Epictetus
5. Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought by Michael I. Handel
6. Strategy: The Classic Book on Military Strategy by B. H. Liddell Hart
7. Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control by J. C. Wylie
8. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler
9. The U.S. Constitution by James Madison
10. The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
11. The Influence of Sea Power on History by A. T. Mahan
12. Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age by Peter Paret
13. Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. Corbett
14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
15. On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
Partner Network
1. Safe Passage by Kori Schake
2. A World In Disarray by Richard Haass
3. Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
4. The Paradox of American Power, Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
5. On China by Henry Kissinger
6. Partnerships for the Americas by James G. Stavridis
7. World Order by Henry Kissinger
8. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D.
9. The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski
10. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, Bill Huyett
Core Attributes
1. Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
2. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
3. Democracy by Condoleezza Rice
4. Warriors and Citizens by Kori Schake & Jim Mattis
5. Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven
6. The Anatomy of Courage by Lord Moran
7. Giving Voice to Values by Mary C. Gentile
8. The 7 Signs of Ethical Collapse by Marianne M. Jennings
Navy Team
1. Humility is the New Smart by Edward Hess
2. Service: A Navy SEAL at War by Marcus Luttrell and James D. Hornfischer
3. The Accidental Admiral, A Sailor Takes Command at NATO by James Stavridis
4. Teams of Teams, New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal
5. Navigating the Seven Seas by Melvin G. Williams
6. Start With Why, How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
7. One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander by Sandy Woodward and Patrick Robinson
8. Leaders Eat Last, Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
9. A Vietnam Experience, Ten Years of Reflection by James B. Stockdale
10. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by Jim Stockdale
11. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
12. In Love and War by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
13. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
14. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends by Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. Grant: Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
16. His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
17. Other Clay: A Remembrance of the World War II Infantry by Charles R. Cawthon
18. The Last Warrior by Andrew F. Krepinevich and Barry D. Watts
19. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
High Velocity Outcomes
1. 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century by Andew F. Krepinevich
2. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
3. Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Stephen Budiansky
4. Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems by Sidney Dekker
5. Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
6. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
7. Grand Strategies in War and Peace by Paul Kennedy
8. High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence by Steven J. Spear
9. Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles
10. Leading Change by John P. Kotter
11. Learning War by Trent Hone
12. Machine Platform Crowd by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
13. Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents by James Reason
14. Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty by Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
15. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
16. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
17. Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko
18. Sensemaking in Organizations by Karl E. Weick
19. Simulating War, Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games by Philip Sabin
20. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
21. Strategy, A History by Lawrence Freedman
22. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
23. The Art of the Long View: Planning in an Uncertain Future by Peter Schwartz
24. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
25. The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
26. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
27. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
28. The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather
29. The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ by Sidney Dekker
30. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
31. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
32. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
33. The Knowing Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
34. The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes
35. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
36. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
37. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
38. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
39. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
40. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Naval Power
1. 1812: The Navy’s War by George C. Daughan
2. Chesty by Jon T. Hoffman
3. Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II by Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley
5. England in the Seven Years’ War: A Study in Combined Strategy by Julian S. Corbett
6. Execute Against Japan, The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare by Joel Ira Holwitt
7. Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy by Colin S. Gray
8. First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by Victor H. Krulak
9. Fleet Tactics by Wayne Hughes and Robert Girrier
10. Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes
11. Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in the World War II by Arthur Herman
12. Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer and August Cole
13. Hold Back the Night by Pat Frank
14. Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson
15. John Barry, An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath
16. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
17. Matterhorn, A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
18. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett
19. Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences by Richard K. Betts
20. Neptune’s Inferno by James D. Hornfischer
21. On Grand Strategy by John Gaddis
22. Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
23. Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
24. Red Star over the Pacific, Second Edition by Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes
25. Rickover and the Nuclear Navy, The Discipline of Technology by Francis Duncan
26. Scales on War: The Future of America’s Military at Risk by Maj. Gen Bob Scales
27. Sea Power by Admiral James Stavridis
28. Seapower, A Guide for the 21st Century by Geoffrey Till
29. Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
30. Ship of Ghosts by James D. Hornfischer
31. Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll
32. Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present by Martin Van Creveld
33. The Admirals by Walter Borneman
34. The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll
35. The Face of Battle by John Keegan
36. The Fleet at Flood Tide by James D. Hornfischer
37. The Global Seven Years War 1754 – 1763 by Daniel A. Baugh
38. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
39. The Mask of Command by John Keegan
40. The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan
41. The Rickover Effect, The Inside Story of How Adm. Hyman Rickover Built the Nuclear Navy by Theodore Rockwell
42. The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon
43. The Two-Ocean War, A Short History of the U.S. Navy in the Second World War by Samuel Eliot Morison
44. Toward a New Maritime Strategy by Peter D. Haynes
45. Utmost Savagery, The Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander
46. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
47. Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21sr Century by P. W. Singer
48. Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America’s Military by Robert H. Scales

2020 Coast Guard’s Reading List to include:
1. I Don’t Want to Talk About It by Terrance Real
2. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
3. Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
4. Not Your Father’s Coast Guard: The Untold Story of US Coast Guard Special Forces by Matthew Mitchell
5. Outside the Wire by Jason Kander
6. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
7. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
8. The Knowledge Illusion by Philip Pernbach and Steven Sloman
9. Women’s Ways of Knowing – The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind by Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule
10. Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America’s Toughest Warriors by Jason Redman
11. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
12. Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base by Andy Brown & Massad Ayoob
13. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by David Hackworth
14. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
15. The Captain Class by Sam Walker
16. Radical Candor by Kim Scott
17. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
18. The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber
19. Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover From Trauma by Elizabeth Stanley
20. The Last of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
21. How to Measure Anything – Finding the value of “intangibles” in business by Douglas W. Hubbard
22. Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
23. Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
24. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

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10. No problem I had some fun:)

I will add that to the other lists on my end.

[Karadeniz]

7. Thanks for this info! Who knew?