The initial Headquarters 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment reading list included the following books:
Modern Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies: Guerrillas and Their Opponents Since 1750 (Warfare and History) in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
Small Wars Their Principles and Practice in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
Guerrilla Strategies: An Historical Anthology from the Long March to Afghanistan in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
America and Guerrilla Warfare in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
Insurgency & Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) in the 'Arab and Islamic Culture and History' section.
A History of the Arab Peoples: Second Edition in the 'Arab and Islamic Culture and History' section.
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror in the 'Arab and Islamic Culture and History' section.
The Arabs in History in the 'Arab and Islamic Culture and History' section.
The Arab Mind in the 'Arab and Islamic Culture and History' section.
The CIA World Factbook 2009 in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
Iraq: The Bradt Travel Guide in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
The Modern History of Iraq in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
Inside Iraq: The History, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World's Least Understood Land in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
A History of Iraq in the 'Iraqi Culture and History' section.
The Shi'is of Iraq in the 'Iraq Ethnicities and Sects' section.
The Kurds in Iraq - Second Edition: The Past, Present and Future in the 'Iraq Ethnicities and Sects' section.
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq (Occasional Paper) in the 'Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Ethnic / Sectarian Violence in Iraq' section.
City Fights: Selected Histories of Urban Combat from World War II to Vietnam in the 'Urban Combat' section.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War in the 'Urban Combat' section.
Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from the Urban Combat in the 'Urban Combat' section.
Acts of War: Behavior of Men in Battle in the 'Psychological/Ethical Dimensions of Combat' section.
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character in the 'Psychological/Ethical Dimensions of Combat' section.
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the 'Counterinsurgency History and Theory' section.
A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan in the 'Iraq Ethnicities and Sects' section.