Description
The 2021 Chief of Naval Operations Reading List
READINESS
- A BRIEF GUIDE TO MARITIME STRATEGY By James R. Holmes
- GHOST FLEET: A Novel of the Next World War By P.W. Singer & August Cole
- NEPTUNE’S INFERNO: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal By James D. Hornfischer
- SIX FRIGATES: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy By Ian W. Toll
- MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War By Karl Marlantes
- RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy By Toshi Yoshihara & James R. Holmes
- SEA POWER A Guide for the Twenty-First Century By Geoffrey Till
- THE LEADER’S BOOKSHELF By ADM. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) & R. Manning Ancell
- LEADERS EAT LAST: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t By Simon Sinek
- MINDSET The New Psychology of Success By Carol S. Dweck
- THE INFINITE GAME: By Simon Sinek
- WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR: By Karl Marlantes
Capabilities
- ARMY OF NONE: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War By Paul Scharre
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASICS By Tom Taulli
- BURN-IN: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution By P. W. Singer & August Cole
- THE FUTURE OF WAR: A History By Lawrence Freedman
- THE NEXT 100 YEARS: A Forecast for the 21st Century By George Friedman
- HUMAN COMPATIBLE: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control By Stuart Russell
- THE FIFTH DOMAIN: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats By Richard A. Clark & Robert K. Knake
- THE NEW RULES OF WAR: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder By Sean McFate
- THE PERFECT WEAPON: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age By David E. Sanger
- DEEP THINKING: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins By Garry Kasparov
- GENIUS WEAPONS: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare By Louis A. Del Monte
- NO ORDINARY DISRUPTION: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends By Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel
- THE INEVITABLE: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future By Kevin Kelly
Capacity
- FEARLESS: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown By Eric Blehm
- ONE NATION UNDER DRONES: Legality, Morality, and Utility of Unmanned Combat Systems By John E. Jackson
- THE FLEET AT FLOOD TIDE: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 By James D. Hornfischer
- THE LAST STAND OF THE TIN CAN SAILORS: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour By James D. Hornfischer
- FLEET TACTICS AND COASTAL COMBAT: By Wayne P. Hughes
- JUST AND UNJUST WARS: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations By Michael Walzer
- SEA POWER: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans By ADM. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) & R. Manning Ancell & Bob Souer
- TOWARD A NEW MARITIME STRATEGY: American Naval Thinking in the Post-Cold War Era By Peter D. Haynes
- OUR ROBOTS, OURSELVES: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy By David A. Mindell
- THE END OF GRAND STRATEGY: US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century By Simon Reich & Peter Dombrowski
- THE FUTURE OF VIOLENCE Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones By Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum
- THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt’s Chief of Staff By Phillips Payson O’Brien
SAILORS
- EGO IS THE ENEMY: By Ryan Holiday
- HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST: By Ibram X. Kendi
- THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win By Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
- TINY HABITS: The Small Changes That Change Everything By BJ Fogg
- WE CAN’T TALK ABOUT THAT AT WORK!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics By Mary-Frances Winters
- A TACTICAL ETHIC: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace By Dick Couch
- FED UP: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward By Gemma Hartley
- MILITARY ETHICS: What Everyone Needs to Know By George Lucas
- SEXUAL MINORITIES AND POLITICS: By Jason Pierceson
- START WITH WHY: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action By Simon Sinek
- THE CHARACTER GAP: How Good Are We? By Christian Miller
- FORTUNE FAVORS BOLDNESS: The Story of Naval Valor During Operation Iraqi Freedom By Barry M. Costello
- NO PITY: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement By Joseph P. Shapiro
- THE ROAD TO CHARACTER: By David Brooks
- THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves By Dan Ariely
- THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander