The December 2006 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

December 2012

February 2010

December 2005

June 2004

This revision

Book cover for In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

Book cover for The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War

Book cover for Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating

Book cover for The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century

Book cover for Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle

Book cover for War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World

Book cover for My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

Book cover for The J Curve

Book cover for House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

Book cover for Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Book cover for Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Book cover for The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military

Book cover for Iraqi Security Forces: A Strategy for Success

Book cover for Political Victory: The Elusive Prize of Military Wars

Book cover for Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Book cover for The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq

Book cover for American Soldier

Book cover for The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Book cover for Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq

Book cover for The Cold War: A New History

Book cover for War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World

Book cover for Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy

Book cover for Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age

Book cover for Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Book cover for Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader

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

Book cover for Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare

Book cover for Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice

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

Book cover for Moral Issues in Military Decision Making

Book cover for The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush

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

Book cover for Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy

Book cover for Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Book cover for Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground

Book cover for America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked

Book cover for When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures

Book cover for The Future of the Army Profession

Book cover for 1776

Book cover for Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

Book cover for The Remnants of War

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

Book cover for Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics

Book cover for Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era

Book cover for The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Book cover for Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11

Book cover for American Admiralship: The Moral Imperatives of Naval Command

Book cover for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

Book cover for Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat

Book cover for The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

Book cover for Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence

Book cover for Military-Civilian Interactions

Book cover for Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont

Book cover for State of Denial: Bush at War