U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence Reading List

(source) The Maneuver Center of Excellence provides trained, agile, adaptive and ready Soldiers and Leaders for an Army at war, while developing capabilities for the Maneuver Force and the individual Soldier and providing a world-class quality of life for our Soldiers, Civilians, and Army Families.

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All Maneuver Leaders

Book cover for Starship Troopers

Book cover for Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Book cover for Once An Eagle

Book cover for Infantry Attacks

Book cover for The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Book cover for Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

Book cover for Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney

Book cover for The Things They Carried

Book cover for The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

SFC and Above

Book cover for The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant: True Story of Infantry Sergeants in Vietnam

Book cover for To Hell and Back

Book cover for Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach

Lieutenants

Book cover for Platoon Leader - A Memoir of Command in Combat

Book cover for We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Book cover for Maneuver Warfare Handbook

Book cover for A Message to Garcia

Book cover for The Defense Of Duffer's Drift

Book cover for Nightmare on Wazir Street

Captains

Book cover for Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II

Book cover for The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Book cover for Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Book cover for Challenge of Command

Book cover for The Mask of Command

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Book cover for We Were Caught Unprepared

Majors

Book cover for This Kind of War

Book cover for Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Book cover for Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Book cover for The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Book cover for Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

Lieutenant Colonels

Book cover for The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan

Book cover for The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family

Book cover for Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

Book cover for Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership

Other

Book cover for America's First Battles, 1776-1965

Book cover for The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

Book cover for The Art Of War

Book cover for Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander

Book cover for The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Book cover for Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death

Book cover for The Black March

Book cover for Bodyguard of Lies

Book cover for Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders

Book cover for D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

Book cover for The Defense of Hill 781

Book cover for Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot

Book cover for The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War

Book cover for Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945

Book cover for Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

Book cover for Face of Battle

Book cover for The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory

Book cover for The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953

Book cover for The Good Soldiers

Book cover for Hope is Not a Method

Book cover for I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

Book cover for The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences

Book cover for Iron Eagle : The Turbulent Life of General Curtis LeMay

Book cover for The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO's Contribution to Warfare

Book cover for Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War

Book cover for The Lessons of War: The Experiences of Seven Future Leaders in the First World War

Book cover for Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace

Book cover for The Marauders

Book cover for Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency

Book cover for "My Clan Against the World": US and Coalition Forces in Somalia 1992-1994

Book cover for The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Book cover for Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

Book cover for On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Book cover for Outliers: The Story of Success

Book cover for Panzer Leader

Book cover for Pleiku: The Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam

Book cover for The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things

Book cover for The Raid

Book cover for Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War

Book cover for The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Book cover for The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

Book cover for The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations

Book cover for The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps: The Backbone of the Army

Book cover for Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods

Book cover for Taking the Guidon: Exceptional Leadership at the Company Level

Book cover for Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Book cover for Tank!: 40 Hours of Battle, August 1944

Book cover for Tank Sergeant

Book cover for Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers

Book cover for To Fight or Not to Fight?: Organizational and Doctrinal Trends in Mounted Maneuver Reconnaissance from the Interwar Years to Operation IRAQI FREEDOM

Book cover for U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976

Book cover for The Unknown Patton

Book cover for Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Book cover for With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa