MCPON Reading List for 2026
The MCPON reading list 2026 is the MCPON’s Bookshelf, a 21-title list released in September 2026. It comes from John
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Marine Corps Reading List for 2026: The Commandant’s FY26 List
The Commandant’s Professional Reading List for FY26: 71 titles across Heritage, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy and Foundational, each with a short description.
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Canadian Army Reading List: The Commander’s 2025 List
The Commander Canadian Army’s 2025 reading list: 44 books across Doctrine, History, Philosophy, Practice, Theory, Fictional Intelligence and Deep Cuts, each with a short description.
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Australian Army Reading List: The Chief of Army’s 2025 Study Guide
The Australian Army’s Chief of Army Professional Study Guide: all 73 mandatory books by rank, from sergeant to lieutenant colonel, each with a short description.
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State Department Reading List for 2026
State’s suggested reading list for future diplomats: 74 books on foreign policy, history, economics, writing and more, each with a short description.
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Wildland Fire Leadership Reading List for 2026
The Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program’s 2026 reading list: six books on influence, quiet leadership, Stoicism and confidence, with ideas for using them on a crew.
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Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy
A review of Michael Poznansky’s Great Power, Great Responsibility, which asks when rules bind great powers, when they bend, and when they break.
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To Be a Logistician in 2026: A Featured Book
Featured book: To Be a Logistician in 2026 by SFC Bryan Frazier, a field guide to property accountability, GCSS-Army and supply leadership from company through brigade.
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West Point Reading List for 2026
A guide to 52 books on ground combat, leadership, the modern battlefield and the history of West Point, with how to request a quote and order the set.
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CNO Reading List for 2026
Every book on Adm. Caudle’s 2026 CNO Professional Reading List, grouped by Foundry, Fleet, Fight and Total Sailor, plus how to request a quote and order the set.
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The Ones We Almost Missed: Four Overlooked Leaders Who Challenge The Ideas Of Talent
War has taught great empires and republics that expecting easy victories and weak enemies is a recipe for their downfall. What happens when those organizations encounter people who don’t fit the mold and buck the system at every opportunity, yet those same people are the very ones needed to save them?
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To Be a Logistician in 2026
To Be a Logistician in 2026 is a professional field guide to property accountability, GCSS-Army, command supply discipline, and supply leadership from company through brigade. Drawing on twenty-two years of Army service, Bryan Frazier examines how technical competence, honest reporting, current-source research, and deliberate training connect supply operations to readiness.
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Fate Gave Me Wings
Fate Gave Me Wings is ultimately a story about being human; about struggle, faith, resilience, accepting help, and finding a way forward.
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The Unconventionals: True Stories about Outsiders Who Changed the World
What happens when the person who does not fit the mold is exactly the person an organization needs?
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On the Brink: A Military History of Taiwan
In On the Brink: A Military History of Taiwan, historian and former U.S. Army officer Eric Setzekorn asks readers to look beyond the familiar story of competition between Washington and Beijing. His focus is Taiwan itself, particularly the armed forces that have spent three quarters of a century adapting to an evolving threat while undergoing an equally significant transformation at home.
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