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As an intellectual exercise, @JimRainey10 recently shared the idea of focusing in on one book to be shared at each rank of the military to help them on their intellectual journey in the #profession. Focusing on the @USArmy, here's my list:

E1-3: @TLCplMax, “The White Donkey: Terminal Lance”

https://smile.amazon.com/The-White-Donkey-Terminal-Lance/dp/B01H1WXT3E/ref=sr_1_1

E4: TC 3-21.76 (SH 21-76) “The Ranger Handbook”

https://smile.amazon.com/Official-Army-Ranger-Handbook-Fainthearted/dp/1548131210/ref=sr_1_4

E5: Jim Fredrick, “Black Hearts”

https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle/dp/0307450767/ref=sr_1_1

Then Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”

https://smile.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent-dp-0671212095/dp/0671212095/ref=mt_paperback

E6: @simonsinek, “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action”

https://smile.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447/ref=sr_1_3

E7: @sebastianjunger, “War”

https://smile.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/044655622X/ref=sr_1_1

E8: Ulysses Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”

https://smile.amazon.com/Ulysses-S-Grant-Selected-1839-1865/dp/0940450585/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2

E9: Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”

https://smile.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=sr_1_2

O1: Michael Howard, “The Use and Abuse of Military History,” RUSI, Vol. 107, Iss. 625 (1962)

https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071849308445676

Then Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”

https://smile.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent-dp-0671212095/dp/0671212095/ref=mt_paperback

The use and abuse of military history

(1993). The use and abuse of military history. The RUSI Journal: Vol. 138, No. 1, pp. 26-30.

https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071849308445676

O2: @Dave_Hodne, “Commanders as Communicators,” ARMY Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 4, April 2016

https://fromthegreennotebook.com/2017/03/09/commanders-as-communicators/

Then Jim Fredrick, “Black Hearts”

https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle/dp/0307450767/ref=sr_1_1

Commanders As Communicators - From the Green Notebook

https://fromthegreennotebook.com/2017/03/09/commanders-as-communicators/

O3: Milan Vego, “On Military Creativity,” Joint Forces Quarterly, Iss. 70 (3rd Quarter 2013)

https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-70/JFQ-70_83-90_Vego.pdf

Then Ulysses Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”

https://smile.amazon.com/Ulysses-S-Grant-Selected-1839-1865/dp/0940450585/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2

O4: Andrew Bacevich, “Progressivism, Professionalism, and Reform,” Parameters, Vol. IX, No.1 (1979)

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA515061.pdf

Then Daniel Bolger, “The Ghosts of Omdurman,” Parameters (Autumn, 1991)

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a512304.pdf

Then Homer, “The Iliad”

https://smile.amazon.com/Iliad-New-Translation-Caroline-Alexander/dp/0062046284/ref=sr_1_4

O5: Janine Davidson, “Civil-Military Friction and Presidential Decision Making,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43, no. 1 (March 2013)

https://cfr.org/content/member/PSQ2013_Broken_Dialogue_Davidson.pdf

Then John Brown “Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the United States Army 1989-2005”

https://smile.amazon.com/Kevlar-Legions-Transformation-United-1989-2005/dp/1300079541/ref=sr_1_1

I'll leave it to more capable folks to take it beyond LTC...& would value NCO comment on the list for the enlisted side of the house. Thanks to @GrizzledBastard @16thSma @WarintheFuture @jbyerly81 @StoneyPortis & @stavridisj for their intellectual spt. Post your list!

PS: Had to repost the thread, since I embedded the wrong tweet up front the first time. It does give me the opportunity to share @Dave_Hodne's O6 recommended reading, though:

“Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory,” by LTG(R) Dubik

https://amazon.com/Just-War-Reconsidered-Strategy-Campaigns/dp/0813168295

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