The January 2018 revision of the U. S. Central Command reading list

(source) CENTCOM Commander's Reading List

This revision

Leadership

Book cover for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Book cover for Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

Managing Complexity

Book cover for The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

Book cover for Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Book cover for Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less

Strategy

Book cover for Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Book cover for Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

Understanding the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility

Book cover for The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Book cover for The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Book cover for The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

Book cover for Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

Innovation

Book cover for Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It