Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Professional Military Reading List

(source) As leaders of the Armed Forces of the United States progress in their development, they should expand their horizons to encompass familiarity with other Services and develop an informed perspective on joint warfare. The following readings complement and do not replace the professional reading lists developed by each Service.

This list was revised 11 months ago.

Joint and Combined Operations

Command, Control, and the Common Defense

Kenneth Allard

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The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

Thomas B. Buell

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Crusade in Europe

Dwight David Eisenhower

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Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series)

Bernard B. Fall

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Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War

Michael Handel

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The Korean War

Max Hastings

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Guardians of the Sea: History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present

Robert Erwin Johnson

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Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective

Ephraim Kam

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Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War (Bluejacket Books)

Eric Larrabee

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The Search for Security in Space (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Kenneth N. Luongo

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

William Slim

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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

Russell F. Weigley

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Classics on Diplomacy and Force

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

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National Security Strategy

The Theory and Practice of War

Michael Eliot Howard

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Every War Must End

Fred Charles Ikle

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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers

Richard E. Neustadt

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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

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National Resources Strategy

Logistics in the National Defense

The George Washington Logistics Research Project

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Affording Defense

Jacques Gansler

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The Political Economy of International Relations

Robert Gilpin

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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton

Martin van Creveld

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