The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's professional reading list is divided into three categories:
Armies at War: Battles and Campaigns
The Army Profession
Strategy and the Strategic Environment
These sub-lists are intended to steer readers to topics in which they are most interested. Each of these books is suitable for readers of any rank or position.
Список и краткое описание:
https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/leaders/csa/2017_csa_reading_list.pdf
Из любопытного:
Milestones
Sayyid Qutb // New Delhi: Islamic Book Service, 2016
Just as it was critical to read Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin during the Cold War, it is now important to read the writings of the father of modern Salafi jihadism, Sayyid Qutb. A guiding light for the Muslim Brotherhood, the author writes of the characteristics of Islamic society, jihad in the cause of God, and a Muslim’s nationality. He was imprisoned by Egyptian nationalists and executed in 1966. This volume is an ideological treatise and a call for radical violence to re-create the Muslim world that merits professional reading by American military leaders.
Mao Zedong // Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he ruled as an autocrat from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. This volume comprises 427 quotations, divided thematically into 33 chapters. The extracts range in length from a sentence to a few short paragraphs and borrow heavily from a group of about two dozen documents in the four volumes of Mao’s Selected Works.
Aleksandr A. Svechin // Minneapolis, Minn.: East View Information Services, 1992
Svechin, a Russian and Soviet military leader, writer, and theorist, wrote this volume in the 1920s while serving as a professor at the Academy of the General Staff in St. Petersburg. Often overlooked after his execution in the Stalinist purges of 1938, the author emphasizes the concepts of attrition (the defensive) and destruction (the offensive) as different approaches to military operations, which could be balanced depending on terrain, technology, and force size.
Barbara W. Tuchman // New York: Random House, 1962
Homer, trans. Robert Fagles // New York: Penguin, 1998
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
И, наконец, самое поразительное для меня:
Thomas E. Ricks // New York: Penguin, 2006
This book covers the second Iraq War from its origins in the Gulf War to 2006, when the issue for the Americans was still very much in doubt. While Ricks does not spare civilian officials, his was the first book to examine the failure of the military to properly prepare for and conduct this war. From division commanders to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he argues that most of these leaders repeated the mistakes made in Vietnam. By 2006, these failures left the United States in a strategic position that “painfully resembled that of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the early 1980s.”
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