kcholbert has read:

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans by James Stavridis

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Chief: My Journey Thru Iraq at the Peak of War by Scott H Dearduff

Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life by Patrick Van Horne

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

Logistics in the Falklands War by Kenneth L. Privratsky

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek

Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by Cdr. Richard Jadick

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

The Road to Character by David Brooks

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman

One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander by Sandy Woodward

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia by RADM Terry McKnight USN (Ret.)

Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare Warfare by Stephen Budiansky

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Second Edition with a new chapter by the author by Marc Levinson

The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO by James Stavridis

Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale

Articles of Confederation by founding fathers

Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea by Jang Jin-sung

The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa by Michael L. Burgoyne

The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-0) Operations by United States Marine Corps

Run Silent Run Deep by Edward L. Beach

Down Range: To Iraq and Back by Bridget C. Cantrell

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-2) Campaigning by United States Marine Corps

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-3) Tactics by United States Marine Corps

Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP 1-1) Strategy by United States Marine Corps

Marine Corps Doctrinal Population (MCDP 6) Command and Control by United States Marine Corps

The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez

The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson

Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization by John Wooden

Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home--Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI by Charles W. Hoge M.D.

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West

The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by The Russian General Staff

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Ali Ahmad Jalali

Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq by David J. Danelo

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter

Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War by G. J. Michaels

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare by Juan Zarate

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman

At All Costs by Matt Proietti

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal

The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World by Greg Ip

The Command of the Air by Giulio Douhet

Redeployment by Phil Klay

Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC by Jon T. Hoffman

What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes

Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II by Jim Lacey

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

Miracle at Midway by Gordon W. Prange

The Magnificent Mitscher by Theodore Taylor

Nimitz by E. B. Potter

Leading Change by John Kotter

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany by Donald L. Miller

Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Rick Newman

Sticking Points: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart by Haydn Shaw

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin

Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life by Mike Krzyzewski

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption by Jeremiah Workman

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Air Commanders by John Andreas Olsen

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick

No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon's Long Journey Home from the Iraq War by W. Lee Warren

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

My Share of the Task: A Memoir by General Stanley McChrystal

Nightmare on Wazir Street by Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Grey Eminence: Fox Conner and the Art of Mentorship by Edward Cox

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks

Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton by Lee Ellis

Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital by Heidi Squier Kraft

A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation by Douglas Waller

Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G.F.R. Henderson

The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings

Bridges at Toko-Ri by James A. Michener

Master of Airpower: General Carl A. Spaatz by David R Mets

The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story by Trent Angers

The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines by Melton A. McLaurin

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II by George MacDonald Fraser

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know by P. W. Singer

The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis

Infantry Attacks by Marshall Erwin Rommel

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again by James Doolittle

The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Victory by Craig Nelson

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy

My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story by Nathaniel R. Helms

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam by John B. Nichols

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson

On China by Henry Kissinger

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist

American Soldier by General Tommy Franks

George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

Muddy Boots Leadership: Real Life Stories and Personal Examples of Good, Bad, and Unexpected Results by Maj. John Chapman USA (Ret.)

Patton on Leadership by Alan Axelrod Ph.D.

The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough

Galloping Ghost: The Extraordinary Life of Submarine Captain Eugene Fluckey by Carl Lavo

Lee: An Abridgement in One Volume by Douglas Southhall Freeman

Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen by Lynn Homan

Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos

The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education by Craig M. Mullaney

Warfighting by U. S. Marine Corps Staff

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine by Robert Coram

Into the Tiger's Jaw : America's First Black Marine Aviator - The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen by Frank E. Petersen

The Constitution of the United States of America by founding united states (author) ; fathers

The Defense Of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC by Jim Proser

The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield

Leading Marines by U.S. Marine Corps

The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation by Thomas C. Reed

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War by Bert Frandsen

Seal of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN by Gary Williams

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Shepherd Creasy

The Armed Forces Officer by U.S. Department of Defense

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 by Daniel Ford

The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy by Toshi Yoshihara

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer

The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler by Douglas Frantz

The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo

7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century by Andrew Krepinevich

The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 2 by Ulysses Simpson Grant

First Light by Geoffrey Wellum

Gods of Tin: The Flying Years by James Salter

Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot by Starr Smith

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Seventh Angel by Jeff Edwards

In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War by Naval Academy Class of 2002

Wake of the Wahoo: The Heroic Story of America's Most Daring WWII Submarine, USS Wahoo by Forest J. Sterling

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram

Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation by James L.; III Holloway

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

The Hunters: A Novel by James Salter

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku

Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by J. Todd Moye

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century by Mark A. Stoler

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It by Richard A. Clarke

The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds by Christina Olds

Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek

Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. Mcmaster

My American Journey by Colin Powell

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan by Lester W. Grau

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld

The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History by Fred Haynes (USMC-Ret.)

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Attacks by Erwin Rommel

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Reminiscences of a Marine by John A. Lejeune

The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance by Thomas B. Buell

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor

Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange

No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal The Memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining, USMC by Merrill Twining

Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign by Robert Debs Heinl

Crusade in Europe by Dwight David Eisenhower

MacArthur's Airman : General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific by Thomas E. Griffith Jr.

Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 by William Slim

The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers by Paul Stillwell

The Village by Bing West

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak

Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'este

Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by Michael Sallah

Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground by Robert D. Kaplan

Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History by Robert Frump

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century by Stanley Weintraub

Face of Battle by John Keegan

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966 by Rick Atkinson

The Killer Angels: A Novel by Michael Shaara

Leadership Is an Art by Max Depree

Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950 by Martin Russ

The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat by Bob Drury

Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery by Nick Popaditch

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power by Max Boot

The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 by founding fathers

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T.E. Lawrence

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode Of The American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer

The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Grider Miller

Fields of Fire by James Webb

The General by C. S. Forester

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield

Rifleman Dodd by C. S. Forester

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by Victor H. Krulak

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore

American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day by Robert Coram

1776 by David McCullough

Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch

Longitude by Dava Sobel

The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer

To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines by A. B. C. Whipple

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis

A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy by Thomas J. Cutler

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times by Donald T. Phillips

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death by Martha J LaGuardia-Kotite

The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times by Donald T. Phillips