The August 2009 revision of the U. S. Joint Forces Command reading list

(source) In an effort to coalesce a single, introductory reading list for those attached to joint and coalition headquarters in Afghanistan, JFCOM has produced the attached reading list in conjunction with COMISAF and CENTCOM. [Tom's note: This is not the complete list since various resources (COMISAF Tactical Directives, etc) are behind firewalls]

This revision

Tactical Level (E1-E3)

Book cover for Afghanistan 101: Understanding Afghan Culture

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

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

Book cover for Hezbollah

Book cover for Three Cups of Tea

Book cover for Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-0) Operations

Book cover for The Places in Between

Book cover for Culture and Customs of Afghanistan

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

Book cover for The Kite Runner

Book cover for A Thousand Splendid Suns

Book cover for Flashman: A Novel

Small Unit Leaders (E4 to E6 & O1 to O3)

Book cover for Afghanistan 101: Understanding Afghan Culture

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

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

Book cover for Three Cups of Tea

Book cover for Hezbollah

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

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

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

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

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

Book cover for The Places in Between

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

Book cover for Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of Ame

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

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

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

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

Book cover for The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan

Book cover for Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics

Book cover for Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-3) Tactics

Book cover for Marine Corps Doctrinal Population (MCDP 6) Command and Control

Book cover for Flashman: A Novel

Operational/Strategic Planners (E7 to E9 & O4 to O6):

Book cover for Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics

Book cover for The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System

Book cover for Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Book cover for 6 Nightmares: The Real Threats to American Security

Book cover for Pakistan: Eye of the Storm

Book cover for Hezbollah

Book cover for Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban

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

Book cover for Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America's War Terror

Book cover for Three Cups of Tea

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

Book cover for Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958

Book cover for War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict  in a Vietnamese Province

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

Book cover for The Sole Spokesman; Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

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

Book cover for Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-1) Strategy

Book cover for Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-2) Campaigning

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

Book cover for The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

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

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

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

Book cover for Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror

Book cover for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Book cover for The Village

Book cover for Afghanistan