I read all three of these books as they are on the Army Chief of Staff Reading List. That list is a bi-annual list the highest ranking member of the Army publishes for professional development. Sometimes the lists are highly curated and you can see the purpose and direction intended. Sometimes, they are just a huge collection of non-fiction books that people have been told to read for years. The current list has 120+ books and seems to have no defining theme. The books in […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List
Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy