The June 2010 revision to the JFSC reading list included the following changes:

Books added:

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army was added to the 'Leadership and Command' section.

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century was added to the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity was added to the 'Current Issues' section.

Victory On The Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

Three Cups of Tea was added to the 'Current Issues' section.

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century was added to the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq was added to the 'Current Issues' section.

Swords and Ploughshares: Building Peace in the 21st Century was added to the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale Library of Military History) was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars was added to the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan was added to the 'Current Issues' section.

Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Vintage) was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (10th Anniversary Edition) was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century was added to the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One was added to the 'Current Issues' section.

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence was added to the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

Books removed:

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul was removed from the 'Into the 21st Century' section.

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power was removed from the 'Current Issues' section.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America was removed from the 'Current Issues' section.

The Culture of War was removed from the 'Current Issues' section.

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization was removed from the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century was removed from the 'Lessons from the Past' section.

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