The December 2012 revision of the U.S. Army War College Library reading list

(source) The U.S. Army War College Library Suggested Military Reading List consists of contemporary books published from 2001 to the present. These books deal with topics of interest to the Army War College students and are of special value in their specific subject area.

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December 2005

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Book cover for Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Book cover for My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War

Book cover for Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Book cover for Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

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

Book cover for Carved from Granite: West Point since 1902

Book cover for Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

Book cover for Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan

Book cover for Washington: A Life

Book cover for Gothic Serpent - Black Hawk Down Mogadishu 1993

Book cover for Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

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

Book cover for Lessons for a Long War: How America Can Win on New Battlefields

Book cover for That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Book cover for George F. Kennan: An American Life

Book cover for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Book cover for Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Book cover for Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Book cover for WAR

Book cover for The World America Made

Book cover for Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National Security

Book cover for Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

Book cover for The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

Book cover for Counterinsurgency

Book cover for On China

Book cover for How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace

Book cover for Pakistan: A Hard Country

Book cover for Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg

Book cover for Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Book cover for The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

Book cover for What It Is Like To Go To War

Book cover for Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945

Book cover for Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

Book cover for Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars

Book cover for Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

Book cover for The Future of Power

Book cover for The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

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

Book cover for The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't

Book cover for From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

Book cover for Global Security Watch - Jordan

Book cover for The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

Book cover for The Wrong War

Book cover for Obama's Wars

Book cover for The Price of Politics

Book cover for The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World