The June 2007 revision of the Lt Gen James Mattis reading list

(source) The Global War on Terrorism is a long war, and as such we need to continue our preparation to be engaged in all aspects of this war. For our current fights the MARCENT Reading List provides a collection of readings to be read dependent upon your grade and how long you have before deploying. Whether part of a unit or an individual augment, my intent is to prepare you for the operational, tactical, cultural and environmental factors affecting your specific fight. This reading list is not all inclusive and your local command may require you to accomplish other tasks in preparation for deployment as well. All of these actions will ensure we send educated, well-trained and properly prepared Marines into the fight. Turn-to, get it done, you and your Marines will be better for your efforts. <b>Tom's note:</b> Some items on this list seem to only to have been accessible on internal DOD networks, so I've only included publicly available books here.

This revision

CENTCOM - all ranks

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

Book cover for Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

CENTCOM - Squad Leaders, Non-Commissioned Officers / Petty Officers and Above

Book cover for The Village

Book cover for Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq

CENTCOM - Staff NCOs, CPOs, Company Grade Offices and Above

Book cover for A Bell for Adano

Book cover for One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

CENTCOM - Field Grade Officers, First Sergeants and Master Sergeants, CPOs / Above

Book cover for The Army and Vietnam

Book cover for Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Book cover for The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Book cover for Small Wars Manual

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

CENTCOM - Colonels and General Officers

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

Book cover for The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Afghanistan - Corporals and Below

Book cover for Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

Book cover for Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

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

Afghanistan - Sergeants and Above and Company Grade Officers

Book cover for Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan

Book cover for Afghan Guerilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters

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

Book cover for Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods

Book cover for Afghanistan Cave Complexes 1979-2004: Mountain strongholds of the Mujahideen, Taliban & Al Qaeda

Book cover for Soldier Sahibs: The Daring Adventurers Who Tamed India's Northwest Frontier

Book cover for The Village

Book cover for What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

Book cover for From Beirut to Jerusalem

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

Book cover for The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

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

Book cover for Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Afghanistan - Staff NCOs and Field Grade Officers

Book cover for The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader

Book cover for Charlie Wilson's War

Book cover for Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban

Book cover for Culture and Customs of Afghanistan

Book cover for War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet

Book cover for The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost

Book cover for Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Book cover for The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban

Book cover for Afghan Guerilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters

Book cover for The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose

Djibouti - Sergeants and Company Grade Officers

Book cover for What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam

Book cover for The Battle for God

Book cover for Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa

Djbouti - Staff NCOs and Field Grade Officers

Book cover for A Modern History of the Somali: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa

Book cover for Layers of Time: History of Ethiopia

Book cover for Famine Crimes: Politics & the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa

Book cover for The Horn of Africa: Politics and International Relations

Book cover for The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Iraq - Sergeants and Company Grade Officers

Book cover for No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah

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

Book cover for Revolt on the Tigris: The Al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq

Greater Middle East - Corporals and Below

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

Book cover for The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America

Book cover for No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Book cover for The Idea Of Pakistan

Book cover for Understanding Arabs: A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society

Book cover for The Arab Mind

Book cover for The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Book cover for Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution

Book cover for The Failure of Political Islam

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

Greater Middle East - Sergeants and Company Grade Officers

Book cover for Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander

Book cover for Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, Afghanistan and Beyond

Greater Middle East - Staff NCOs and Field Grade Officers

Book cover for All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Book cover for Intelligence in War: The value--and limitations--of what the military can learn about the enemy

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

Book cover for Battle Ready

Book cover for The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Book cover for Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution

Book cover for The Failure of Political Islam

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

Book cover for A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

Book cover for The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East

Book cover for What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

Book cover for The Easter Offensive, Vietnam, 1972

Book cover for The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror