Military Studies: Military Science professional reading list

Chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history: the surprise assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized).

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Follows one extraordinary young man's transformation from Ivy League student to twenty-first-century warrior.

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A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.

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Looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of battle and the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, and memory.

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Explains the SEAL leadership concepts crucial to accomplishing the most difficult missions in combat and how to apply them to any group, team, or organization.

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Drawing upon a military career spanning more than four decades, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, examines the limits of loyalty, the necessity of sensible skepticism, and the value of responsible rebelliousness, and explains why we actually should sweat the small stuff.

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Drawing on compelling examples from NASA to hospital emergency rooms, shows how the challenges faced in Iraq can be rel­evant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and or­ganizations today.

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A collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell's legendary career in public service.

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Borrowing from the fitness idea of completing as many reps as possible of an exercise in a given time period, Jason developed a system that will help you discover your why, focus on what you can control, work hard, and ultimately blow past your goals.

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Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want.

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Takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives.

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Chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.

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Fictional account in which the United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace.

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The story of a young man's indoctrination into combat as an infantryplatoon leader in the famed 173d Airborne Brigade. A classic in the literature of America's war in Vietnam.

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Leadership is not about being in charge, it’s about taking care of those in your charge. When leaders create the right conditions and environment for their people, individuals instinctively support one another.

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The art of Situational Leadership, which refutes the conventional management mandate of treating all employees equally. Learn the importance of tailoring management styles to individual employees, and knowing when to delegate, support, or direct.

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The story of a soldier named Sam Damon and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest.

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What it’s like to serve as a U.S. Army soldier during a time of two wars, as seen through mature eyes. When Michael MacLeod enlisted, he was 41 years old, as old as he could be and still enlist. He found himself in boot camp with soldiers who quite literally could have been his own sons.

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Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. It is a journey about learning to lead and a story about how he, through constant study and action, developed a unique leadership philosophy, one relevant to us all.

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Marquete was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. Trained to give orders in the traditional model of “know all–tell all” leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to a nuclear-powered submarine. Facing a high-stress environment where there’s little margin for error, he was determined to reverse the trends of poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet.

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Compelling true stories to illustrate the gaps that individuals and organizations typically experience between their actual inward mindsets and their needed outward mindsets.

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A book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant. Great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

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Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.

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Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations.

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Investigative reporters interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines.

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