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R311628ZAUG10: PACOM list posted
I've added the U. S. Pacific Command reading list. It's all new stuff - I don't think a single book on that list is something that's on one of the other lists. Enjoy!
R301334ZJUN10: New JFSC revision posted!
I've added a revision of the Joint Forces Staff College list; lots of interesting stuff there. There's some overlap with the Air Force list (e.g., Singer's excellent "Wired for War"), and there are some new ones too like Grau's "The Bear Went Over the Mountain". Enjoy!
R040314ZJUN10: STRATCOM list added
I've added the U. S. Strategic Command reading list. There's some overlap between STRATCOM's list and the CSAF list (e.g., LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay), but lots of new stuff on there too. Enjoy!
R011353ZJUN10: CSAF 2010 list is out!
The 2010 Chief of Staff of the Air Force list is out, so I've added it. Just like the 2009 revision, the 2010 revision is a complete replacement of all the books on the list. Some great new stuff there, enjoy!
R190249ZMAY10: USMC Africa list added
I've added the USMC "Horn of Africa" reading list. Like the SOUTHCOM list, this is full of new stuff. Enjoy!
R151305ZAPR10: National Capital Region Medical Joint Task Force list added
I've added the National Capital Region Medical Joint Task Force reading list. There's some interesting new stuff here, including Captain David Rozelle's "Back in Action". Enjoy!
R240332ZMAR10: SOUTHCOM list added
I've added the U.S. Southern Command's reading list. Lots of new and interesting stuff there including two books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Enjoy!
R220537ZMAR10: General Shinseki's list added
I've added General Eric Shinseki's reading list from Brigadier General John Sloane Brown's 12/2000 article in Army Magazine. Much of this list was adopted into other lists - for example, "We Were Soldiers" is on the regular Army list and on the USMC list.
R191558ZMAR10: USMC Civilian list added
I've added the USMC civilian reading list; thanks to Maj Thomas Forrest for the pointer. About a quarter of the books are also on the regular USMC list, but there's a lot of new stuff too. Enjoy!
R161138ZMAR10: Canadian Army reading list posted
I've added the Canadian Army reading list; thanks to Maj. Tom Forrest, USA, for the pointer to it! This is a massive list, and it's the first list that I've seen that contains "All Quiet on the Western Front"... great stuff.
R150233ZOCT09: Army list updated
I've just added the latest revision to the Army reading list. One I'm looking forward to is Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. There's a lot of other good stuff there too; I see Dereliction of Duty is in the Senior Leaders section now. Enjoy!
R260504ZSEP09: Brave Rifles Reading List added
I've added the Brave Rifles Reading List for Operation Iraqi Freedom from Headquarters 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment. This list has some you've seen before - e.g., Bernard Lewis' Crisis of Islam - and a bunch of new ones, especially in the Iraq Culture and History section. And Savage Wars of Peace is there, of course!
R191404ZJAN09: 2009 Air Force reading list released!
The 2009 Air Force reading list is out!
http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/revisions/airforce/jan-2009
This is a complete redo of the list; not a single book survived! Max Boot's The Savage Wars Of Peace was added; that book is now on three reading lists: Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. There seems to be a bit more of a focus on high-level thinking with the addition of Gray's Modern Strategy and Drew's Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy. On the "adventure" side of things, Naylor's Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda has been added.
R121404ZJAN09: Navy 2009 reading list released!
The 2009 Navy reading list is out!
http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/revisions/navy/jan-2009
This is a fairly small revision, with only six books added and five books removed. There are also some reshufflings; for example The Sand Pebbles is now in the "Junior Enlisted" section as well as the "Leading Petty Officer" section. Stephen Ambrose' D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II is an interesting addition; Ambrose fans may also notice that his Band of Brothers is on both the USMC and Army reading lists.