2019 Navy Reading List.
Below is the Official Navy Reading List:
The Canon
- The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton
- Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought, by Michael I. Handel
- Strategy: The Classic Book on Military Strategy, by B. H. Liddell Hart
- Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control, by J. C. Wylie
- The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War, by Robert B. Strassler
- The U.S. Constitution, by James Madison
- The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson
- The Influence of Sea Power on History, by A. T. Mahan
- Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, by Peter Paret
- Principles of Maritime Strategy, by Julian S. Corbett
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
- On War, by Carl Von Clausewitz
Partner Network
- Safe Passage, by Kori Schake
- World In Disarray, by Richard Haass
- Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Paradox of American Power, Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone, by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
- On China, by Henry Kissinger
- Partnerships for the Americas, by James G. Stavridis
- World Order, by Henry Kissinger
- The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate, by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Grand Chessboard, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance, by Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, Bill Huyett
Navy Team
- Humility is the New Smart, by Edward Hess
- Service: A Navy SEAL at War, by Marcus Luttrell and James D. Hornfischer
- The Accidental Admiral, A Sailor Takes Command at NATO, by James Stavridis
- Teams of Teams, New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by Stanley McChrystal
- Navigating the Seven Seas, by Melvin G. Williams
- Start With Why, How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek
- One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander, by Sandy Woodward and Patrick Robinson
- Leaders Eat Last, Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, by Simon Sinek
- A Vietnam Experience, Ten Years of Reflection, by James B. Stockdale
- Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot, by Jim Stockdale
- The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk
- In Love and War, by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger
- At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Enchiridion, by Epictetus
- Grant: Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters of Ulysses S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant
- His Excellency, George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis
- Other Clay: A Remembrance of the World War II Infantry, by Charles R. Cawthon
- Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II, by Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Last Warrior, by Andrew F. Krepinevich and Barry D. Watts
- The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
Naval Power
- Fleet Tactics, by Wayne Hughes and Robert Girrier
- Neptune’s Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer
- Scales on War: The Future of America’s Military at Risk, by Maj. Gen Bob Scales
- On Grand Strategy, by John Gaddis
- Sea Power, by Admiral James Stavridis
- 1812: The Navy’s War, by George C. Daughan
- Toward a New Maritime Strategy, by Peter D. Haynes
- The Rules of the Game, by Andrew Gordon
- Seapower, A Guide for the 21st Century, by Geoffrey Till
- Red Star over the Pacific, by Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes
- The Conquering Tide, by Ian W. Toll
- Execute Against Japan, The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, by Joel Ira Holwitt
- John Barry, An American Hero in the Age of Sail, by Tim McGrath
- Pacific Crucible, War at Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942, by Ian W. Toll
- Six Frigates, by Ian W. Toll
- Empires of the Sea, by Roger Crowley
- The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James D. Hornfischer
- Ship of Ghosts, by James D. Hornfischer
- The Fleet at Flood Tide, by James D. Hornfischer
- Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway, by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
- Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian
- The Rickover Effect, The Inside Story of How Adm. Hyman Rickover Built the Nuclear Navy, by Theodore Rockwell
- Rickover and the Nuclear Navy, The Discipline of Technology, by Francis Duncan
- The Two-Ocean War, A Short History of the U.S. Navy in the Second World War, by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, by Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
- The Face of Battle, by John Keegan
- The Price of Admiralty, by John Keegan
- The Mask of Command, by John Keegan
- Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences, by Richard K. Betts
- Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett
- All the Factors of Victory, by Thomas Wildenberg
- Matterhorn, A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes
- Ghost Fleet, by P.W. Singer and August Cole
- Hold Back the Night, by Pat Frank
- Utmost Savagery, The Three Days of Tarawa, by Joseph H. Alexander
- Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy, by Colin S. Gray
- The Admirals, by Walter Borneman
- Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America’s Military, by Robert H. Scales
- England in the Seven Years’ War: A Study in Combined Strategy, by Julian S. Corbett
- The Global Seven Years War 1754 – 1763, by Daniel A. Baugh
- Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in the World War II, by Arthur Herman
- Joe Rochefort’s War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway, by Elliot Carlson
- Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, by Roger Knight
- Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
- Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present, by Martin Van Creveld
- Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, by P. W. Singer
- First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps, by Victor H. Krulak
- Chesty, by Jon T. Hoffman
- Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines, by Melton Alonza McLaurin
- Forgotten Warriors, by Thomas Hammes
- American Spartans: A Combat History from Iwo to Iraq, by James Warren
- Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, by Robert Coram
High Velocity Outcomes
- Learning War, by Alexander Hamilton
- The Book of Why, by Judea Pear and Dana Mackenzie
- Machine Platform Crowd, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
- Democracy, by Condoleezza Rice
- Simulating War, Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games, by Philip Sabin
- Strategy, A History, by Lawrence Freedman
- Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents, by James Reason
- Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty, by Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
- The Heart of Change: Real-life Stories of How People Change their Organizations, by John P. Kotter
- Leading Change, by John P. Kotter
- Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky
- The Fall of the Roman Empire, by Peter Heather
- Grand Strategies in War and Peace, by Paul Kennedy
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economic Bigger, by Marc Levinson
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinsser
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, by Clayton M. Christensen
- High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence, by Steven J. Spear
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, by Daniel H. Pink
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, by Jake Knapp
- The Making of the Atom Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
- The Knowing Doing Gap, by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte
- Sensemaking in Organizations, by Karl E. Weick
- The Art of the Long View: Planning in an Uncertain Future, by Peter Schwartz
- The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
- Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology, by James R. Chiles
- 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century, by Andew F. Krepinevich
- Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter M. Senge
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers, by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, by Sidney Dekker
- The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’, by Sidney Dekker
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil
- Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy, by Micah Zenko
Core Attributes
- Warriors and Citizens, by Kori Schake & Jim Mattis
- Make Your Bed, by Admiral William H. McRaven
- The Anatomy of Courage, by Lord Moran
- Giving Voice to Values, by Mary C. Gentile
- Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
- The 7 Signs of Ethical Collapse, by Marianne M. Jennings