The January 2014 revision of the Special Operations Command, Pacific reading list

(source) This recommended reading list has been compiled as a tool to provide you with a greater understanding of our profession and the Special Operations community and, as such, a means to enhance your professional and personal growth. As you know, our efforts to expand our knowledge will better enable us to make decisions that will shape our future. This list is not all-inclusive; however, it does provide you with solid foundations from which you can increase your awareness of both our world and our community of "Quiet Professionals."

This revision

Book cover for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Book cover for Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible Wwii Narrative Of The Hero Whose Spy Network And Secret Diplomacy Changed The Course Of History

Book cover for A Passage to India

Book cover for A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation

Book cover for After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia

Book cover for Allah's Torch: A Report from Behind the Scenes in Asia's War on Terror

Book cover for Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Book cover for Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Book cover for Charlie Wilson's War

Book cover for Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War

Book cover for Code-Name Bright Light : The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War

Book cover for Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers

Book cover for Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War

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

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Book cover for Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Book cover for Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Book cover for Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

Book cover for Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Book cover for Global Power: India's Foreign Policy, 1947-2006

Book cover for Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Book cover for Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism

Book cover for Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu

Book cover for How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

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

Book cover for In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Book cover for In the Presence of My Enemies

Book cover for A New History of India

Book cover for Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School

Book cover for Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

Book cover for International Relations of Asia

Book cover for Kim

Book cover for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Book cover for Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Book cover for Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror

Book cover for Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines

Book cover for Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks

Book cover for Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency

Book cover for On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Book cover for Once An Eagle

Book cover for Our Oriental Heritage (Story of Civilization)

Book cover for Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent

Book cover for Personal Effectiveness

Book cover for Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia's Use of Military Force

Book cover for Religion And Politics: Islam And Muslim Civilisation

Book cover for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Book cover for Small-Unit Leaders' Guide to Counterinsurgency: The Official U.S. Marine Corps Manual

Book cover for Start Late Finish Rich

Book cover for Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina

Book cover for Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations

Book cover for Terror and Liberalism

Book cover for Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools

Book cover for The Armed Forces Officer

Book cover for The Art of Transformation

Book cover for The Coming Conflict with China

Book cover for Dynamics of Human Communication: A Laboratory Approach

Book cover for Face of Battle

Book cover for The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

Book cover for The Forgotten Soldier

Book cover for The Future of Freedom

Book cover for The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy

Book cover for The Killer Angels: A Novel

Book cover for The Koran

Book cover for The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Book cover for The Second Front: Inside Jemaah Islamiyah, Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network

Book cover for The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Book cover for The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual

Book cover for The United States in Asia

Book cover for The Vietnam War on Trial: The My Lai Massacre and the Court-Martial of Lieutenant Calley

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

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

Book cover for This Kind of War

Book cover for To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda

Book cover for Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

Book cover for The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation

Book cover for Understanding Islam: An Introduction

Book cover for Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America

Book cover for Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq

Book cover for War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History

Book cover for Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty to Jihad

Book cover for Washington's Crossing

Book cover for What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Book cover for Prime Crime Holiday Bundle

Book cover for Winning the Long War: Retaking the Offensive against Radical Islam

Book cover for The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization