The February 2010 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.

Other revisions

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December 2006

December 2005

June 2004

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Book cover for The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Book cover for A Moral Military

Book cover for The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Book cover for Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Book cover for The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

Book cover for The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World

Book cover for After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush

Book cover for Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power

Book cover for Clausewitz and Contemporary War

Book cover for This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Book cover for The Forever War

Book cover for The Good Soldiers

Book cover for Strategic Leadership: Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and Boards

Book cover for Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Book cover for Outliers: The Story of Success

Book cover for What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Book cover for Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

Book cover for Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

Book cover for General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War

Book cover for War, Peace and International Relations: An introduction to strategic history

Book cover for The Coldest Winter

Book cover for War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

Book cover for The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century

Book cover for Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post-Cold War Era

Book cover for The Return of History and the End of Dreams

Book cover for Drugs and Contemporary Warfare

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

Book cover for Cyberpower and National Security

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

Book cover for How We Decide

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

Book cover for Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq

Book cover for Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare PB

Book cover for Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy

Book cover for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Book cover for Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy

Book cover for Managing

Book cover for In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002

Book cover for American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era

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

Book cover for Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win

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

Book cover for Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

Book cover for Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq

Book cover for Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

Book cover for The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

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

Book cover for The Culture of War

Book cover for Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great (Center for Public Leadership)

Book cover for The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

Book cover for Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom