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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
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Wes Bringham has read:

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

Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani

Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers by Richard E. Neustadt

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Christopher Kolenda

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

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

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan

Longitude by Dava Sobel

The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester

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

D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose

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

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

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk

American Government by Robert A Heineman

The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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