colleen has read:

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles

At ease: Stories I tell to friends by Dwight D Eisenhower

A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Relection by James B. Stockdale

The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War by Lord Moran

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler

Assault From the Sea. Essays On The History Of Amphibious Warfare. by Lieutenant Colonial Merrill L., USMC (Retired). Barlett

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon

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

Enchiridion by Epictetus

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It by Marc Goodman

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

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

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

Hold Back the Night by Pat Frank

The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future by Andrew McAfee

John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath

Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens Navy SEAL

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

Attacks by Erwin Rommel

Infantry Attacks by Marshall Erwin Rommel

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 Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--and What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner

At the Water's Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault by Theodore L. Gatchel

Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders by Arthur Collins

Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology by Richard Hooker

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

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

The Art of War by Antoine Henri De Jomini

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester

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

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan

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

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

The Aeneid by Virgil

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

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

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass

Legacy by James Kerr

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

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

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

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

Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The Martian by Andy Weir

Sustaining the Transformation MCRP 6-11D by U. S. Marine Corps

American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq by James A. Warren

How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose

Battle Leadership by Adolf Von Schell

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

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner

"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare by Joel Ira Holwitt

Corps Values: Everything You Need to Know I Learned In the Marines by Zell Miller

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey

The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel

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

Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell

@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris

Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson

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

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

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

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

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

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

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet

Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq by Col. Peter R. Mansoor

The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader by Jason Redman

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen

This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach

The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq by Martin van Creveld

The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

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

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

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars by Matthew Moten

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

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

The Village by Bing West

The Hunters: A Novel by James Salter

Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by Victor Hanson

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy

Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina by Bernard B. Fall

Intelligence in War: The value--and limitations--of what the military can learn about the enemy by John Keegan

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape

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

Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq by John C. McManus

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Anabasis: The March Up Country by Xenophon

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

The Wrong War by Bing West

In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002 by Bill Murphy

Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

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

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power by Victor Hanson

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

WAR by Sebastian Junger

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

The Defense of Hill 781 by James R. McDonough

Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides

Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown by Eric Blehm

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

Djibouti: A Novel by Elmore Leonard

Anabasis of Cyrus by Xenophon

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel by Steven Pressfield

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America by John Keegan

Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's Military by Tanya Biank

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

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by Sgt. David Bellavia

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007 by Center of Military History

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

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

What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan

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

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

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific by Robert Leckie

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield

Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick

Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan

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

Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific by R.V. Burgin

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

The Defense Of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

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

Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller by Burke Davis

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

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

Making the Corps by Thomas E. Ricks

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

Warfighting by U. S. Marine Corps Staff

The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield

Leading Marines by U.S. Marine Corps

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

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

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

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by Rupert Smith

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

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Navigating the Seven Seas: Leadership Lessons of the First African American Father and Son to Serve at the Top of the US Navy by Melvin G. Williams

Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch

Fields of Fire by James Webb

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

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

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

The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz

Rifleman Dodd by C. S. Forester

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

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

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

Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer

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

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

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

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

1776 by David McCullough

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

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

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

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

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

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman

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

The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

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

1812: The Navy's War by George C. Daughan

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Killer Angels: A Novel by Michael Shaara

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Gift of Valor: A War Story by Michael M. Phillips

First Things First by Stephen R. Covey

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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

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

The Ugly American by William J. Lederer

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

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

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Longitude by Dava Sobel

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

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

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

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu

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