The April 2011 revision of the Joint Forces Staff College reading list

(source) The JFSC Commandant's Professional Reading List contains recommended books by the Commandant on Joint and Multinational Operations.

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January 2012

January 2010

January 2009

This revision

Book cover for 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century

Book cover for A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq

Book cover for Counterinsurgency

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Book cover for Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

Book cover for How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle

Book cover for Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

Book cover for Obama's Wars

Book cover for Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Book cover for Swords and Ploughshares: Building Peace in the 21st Century

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

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

Book cover for The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

Book cover for The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

Book cover for The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953

Book cover for The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going

Book cover for The Wrong War

Book cover for Victory On The Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

Book cover for WAR

Book cover for War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age

Book cover for War by Land, Sea, and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command