2017 Air Force Reading List
The Official Air Force Reading List include 23 books from the following six sections:
- Leadership
- Warfighting
- Heritage
- Strategic Environment
- Innovation & exploration
- CMASF Picks
Leadership
- Leaders Eat Last: Why some teams pull together and others don’t, by Simon Sinek
- Chief, by Scott H. Dearduf
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a complex world, by General Stanley McChrystal
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive guide to getting the right things done,by Peter F. Drucker
Air Force Warfighting
- Cyberspace in Peace and War, by Martin C. Libicke
- The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken
- Airpower Reborn, by John Andreas Olsen
Air Force Heritage
- Shoot like a Girl, by Major Mary Jennings Hegar
- The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
- Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership
- by David N. Spires
- The Strategist, by Bartholomew Sparrow
The Strategic Environment
- The Accidental Super Power: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the coming global disorder, by Peter Ziehan
- The New Tsar: The Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick
- On China, by Henry Kissinger
Innovation and Exploration
- Attitudes Aren’t Free: Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces, by James E. Parco & David A. Levy
- Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
- Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L. Friedman
- Big Data, by Victor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Cukier
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Reading List
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
- The One Thing, by Gary Keller
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth
