Military Reading Lists

Looking for some military reading lists for inspiration? Want to know what senior commanders think we should be reading. Here are some lists to get you started:

• Australian Chief of Army’s Reading List – philosophers of war, character of land warfare, culture and conflict, military organisation culture and behaviours, strategy and doctrine, logistics, command and leadership, intelligence, professional ethics, military innovation and adaptation, amphibious warfare, thinking creatively;y, contemporary security contexts, and military history.

• West Point Officer’s Professional Reading List – military classics, nature and practice of war, face of battle, experience of war, wars and warfare from the ancients through the 21st Century, war and combat.

• U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List – broken into three sections focused on: Armies at War: Battles and Campaigns, the Army Profession and Strategy and the Strategic Environment

• U.S. Special Operations Command Commander’s Reading List – leadership, threat, strategy, intelligence, technology and innovation

• Defence Academy of the United Kingdom – Chief of Defence Staff Reading List – strategy, warfare, partners, people

• Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs Reading List

• Joint Forces Staff Collge Commandant’s Professional Reading List 

• Special Operations Command Pacific Reading List- gives a geographic twist

• Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List – Primary Level – for Privates to Lieutenants

• Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List – Career Level and Senior Level – for Sergeants to Captains

• Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List – Intermediate Leveland Senior Level – for Warrant Officers to Colonels

• Marine Corps – Strategic Thinking

• Marine Corps – Leadership

• Marine Corps – Logistics

• Innovation Reading List

• U.S. Naval War College – Wargaming Reading List

• Red Team Reading List

Found a good reading list? Feel free to email it to: groundedcuriosity@gmail.com so we can share your discovery.