US Marine Corp Reading List (to date)

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The United States Marine Corps reading list was e-mailed to me on the above
date. I (Hegner) made some corrections;some we need help to do the corrections,
others are impossible to come-up with (title missing, author only information).

Please e-mail your corrections to me at the above address and we will add
them when confirmed. Thank You and Semper Fi, (Yes I am a former Marine).

Tony Hegner

The following is the Marine Corps reading list. It was disseminated to
the Corps in message ALMAR 127-89. A copy of this message was faxed to
me and was of dreadful quality, especially in the LTCOL/COL areas. This
translation is the best I could do. If you have corrections or additions,
please let me know.

1. Corporal: Professional reading is included in the new NCO Basic
Nonresident Program from the Marine Corps Institute

2. Sergeant: Read a minimum of two books (ideally four) annually

Hubbard, E. "A Message to Garcia" (Leadership)
Marshall, S. "Soldier's Load" (Logistics)
Simmons, E. "United States Marines 1775-1975" (History)
Swinton (Sqinton?), E. "The Defence of Duffer's Drift" (Tactics)
Thomason, J. "Fix Bayonets" (History)
Uris, L. "Battle Cry" (Fiction)
Von Schell, A. "Battle Leadership" (Leadership)
West, F. "The Village" (Low Intensity Conflict (LIC))

3. Staff Sergeant: Read a minimum of two books (ideally four) annually

Asprey, R. "War in the Shadows" (LIC)
Forester, C. "Rifleman Dodd" (Fiction)
Marshall, S "Men Against Fire" (Leadership)
Mersky, P. "U.S. Marine Corps Aviation" (Airpower)
Rommel, E. "Attacks" (Tactics)
Sajer, G. "The Forgotten Soldier" (Memoir)
Sledge, E. "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" (Memoir)
Webb, J. "Fields of Fire" (Fiction)

4. Gunnery Sergeant: Read a minimum of two books (ideally four) annually

Collins, A. "Common Sense Training" (Training)
Crane, S. "The Red Badge of Courage" (Fiction)
Heinl, R. "Victory at High Tide" (Operations)
Lejeune, J. "Reminiscences of a Marine" (Autobiography)
Laqueur, W. and Alexander, Y. "The Terrorism Reader" (LIC)
MacDonald, C. "Company Commander" (Leadership)
Marshall, G. "Infantry In Battle" (Tactics)
Masters, J. "Bugles and a Tiger" (Memoir)
Moskin, J. "The U.S. Marine Corps Story" (History)
Ross, B. "Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor" (Operations)

5. 1st SGT/Master SGT: Read a minimum of two books (ideally four) annually

Ardant Du Pico, C. "Battle Studies" (Leadership)
Chailand, G. "Guerrilla Strategies" (LIC)
Keegan, J. "The Face of Battle" (Theory&Nature of War)
Keegan, J. "The Price of Admiralty" (Seapower)
Krulak, V. "First to Fight" (Memoir)
Larteguy, J. "The Centurions" (Fiction)
Leckie, R. "The March to Glory" (Operations)
Nolan, K. "The Battle for Hue" (Tactics)
Stokesbury, J. "A Short History of Airpower" (Airpower)

6. SGT Major/Master GYSGT : Minimum of two books (ideally four) annually

Asprey, R. "Once a Marine" (Memoir)
Heinl, R. "Victory at High Tide" (Operations)
Holmes, R. "Acts of War" (Leadership)
Horne, A. "A Savage War in Peace" (LIC)
Liddell Hart, B. "Strategy" (Strategy)
Millett, A. and Maslowski, P. "For the Common Defenses" (History)
Moran, C. "The Anatomy of Courage" (Leadership)
Nye, R. "The Challenge of Command" (Leadership)
Remarque, F. "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Fiction)
Shaara, M. "Killer Angels" (Fiction)
Turley, G. "The Easter Offensive" (Tactics)
Van Creveld, M. "Command in War" (Theory&Nature of War)

7. Second LT/WO-1: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Asprey, R. "War in the Shadows" (LIC)
Bennett, G. "Nelson the Commander" (Seapower)
English, J. "A Perspective on Inantry" (Tactics)
Forester, C. "Rifleman Dodd" (Fiction)
Hubbard, E. "A Message to Garcia" (Leadership)
Krulak, V. "First to Fight" (Memoir)
Lind,W. & Moore,R. "Maneuver Warfare Handbook" (Operations)
Marder, A. "Anatomy of British Seapower" (Seapower)
Marshall, S. "Men Against Fire" (Leadership)
Marshall, S. "Soldier's Load" (Logistics)
Marshall, S. "The Armed Forces Officer" (Leadership)
Moskin, J. "The U.S. Marine Corps Story" (History)
Nye, R. "The Challenge of Command" (Leadership)
Rommel, E. "Attacks" (Tactics)
Sajer, G. "The Forgotten Soldier" (Memoir)
Shaara, M. "Killer Angels" (Fiction)
Thomason, J. "Fix Bayonets" (History)
Von Schell, A. "Battle Leadership" (Leadership)

8. First LT/CWO-2: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Griffith, P. "Forward Into Battle" (Tactics)
Hackett, J. "The Profession of Arms" (Leadership)
Hagan, K. "American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy: 1877-1889
(Seapower)
Holmes, R. "Acts of War" (Leadership)
Keegan, J. "The Face of Battle" (Theory&Nature of War)
Laqueur, W. and Alexander, Y. "The Terrorism Reader" (LIC)
Lejeune, J. "Reminiscences of a Marine" (Autobiography)
Liddell Hart, B. "Strategy" (Strategy)
Masters, J. "Bugles and a Tiger" (Memoir)
Mersky, P. "U.S. Marine Corps Aviation" (Airpower)
Moran, C. "The Anatomy of Courage" (Leadership)
Nolan, K. "The Battle for Hue" (Tactics)
Preston, R. and Wise, W. "Men in Arms" (History)
Ross, B. "Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor" (Operations)
Sprout, H. "The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776-1918" (Seapower)
Swinton, E. "Defence of Duffer's Drift" (Tactics)

9. Captain/CWO-3: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Ardant Du Pico, C. "Battle Studies" (Leadership)
Chailand, G. "Guerrilla Strategies" (LIC)
Crane, S. "The Red Badge of Courage" (Fiction)
Collins, A. "Common Sense Training" (Training)
Fehrenbach, T. "This Kind of War" (Tactics)
Hastings, M. "The Battle for the Falklands" (Seapower)
Heinl, R. "Victory at High Tide" (Operations)
Keegan, J. "The Price of Admiralty" (Seapower)
Kellett, A. "Combat Motivation" (Leadership)
Larteguy, J. "The Centurions" (Fiction)
Leckie, R. "March to Glory" (Operations)
Lupeer, T.T. "The Dynamics of Doctrine" (Doctrine)
MacDonald, C. "Company Commander" (Memoir)
Marshall, G. "Infantry in Battle" (Leadership)
Millett, A. "Semper Fidelis" (History)
Montross, L. "War Through the Ages" (History)
Myrer, A. "Once an Eagle" (Fiction)
Paret,F. & Craig,G. "Makers of Modern Strategy" (Strategy)
Peppers, J. "History of United States Logistics 1935-1985" (Logistics)
Peters, T. "Thriving on Chaos" (Leadership)
Pope, D. "The Battle of the River Plate" (Seapower)
Sledge, E. "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" (Memoir)
Stokesbury, J. "A Short History of Airpower" (Airpower)
Sun Tzu "The Art of War" (Strategy)
Turley, G. "The Easter Offensive" (Tactics)
Van Creveld, M. "Command in War" (Theory&Nature of War)
Von Mellenthin,F. "Panzer Battles" (Tactics)
Weigley, R. "The American Way of War" (History)
West, F. "The Village" (LIC)
Willock, R. "Unaccustomed to Fear" (Biography)
Willoughby, C. "Maneuver in War" (Operations)

10. Major/CWO-4: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Asprey, R. "Once a Marine" (Memoir)
Barker, A. "Midway" (Seapower)
Bond, B. "Liddell Hart" (Biography)
Brown, A. "Bodyguard of Lies" (Intelligence)
Dupuy, T. "A Genius for War" (History)
Fuller, J. "The Conduct of War" (History)
Hastings, M. "Overlord" (Operations)
Herzog, C. "The Arab-Israeli Wars" (Operations)
Higham, R. "Air Power" (Airpower)
Horne, A. "A Savage War in Peace" (LIC)
Howard, N. "Clausewitz" (Biography/Guide)
Krepinevich, A. "The Army and Vietnam" (LIC)
Luvaas, J. "Frederick the Great on the Art of War" (Strategy)
Mao, T. "On Guerrilla Warfare" (LIC)
Millett, A. "For the Common Defense" (History)
Moorehead, A. "Gallipoli" (?)
Morison, S.E. "The Two-Ocean War" (?)
Oman, C. "The Art of War In the
Middle Ages" (?)
Peltier, L.C.& "Military Geography" (?)
Pearcy, G.E.
Richmond, W. "Statesmen and Seapower" (Seapower)
Remarque, E. "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Fiction)
Stokesbury,J. &
Blumenson "Masters of the Art of Command" (Leadership)
Von Creveld, M. "Supplying War" (Logistics)
Von Manstein, E. "Lost Victories" (Tactics)

11. Lt. Colonel: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Blumenson, N. "The Patton Papers" (Biography)
Buell, T. "The Quiet Warrior" (Biography)
Carver, M. "The War Lords" (Leadership)
Chandler, D. "Campaigns of Napolean" (Operations)
Coddington, E. "The Gettysburg Campaign" (Leadership)
Cooper, N.V. "A Fighting General" (Biography)
Doughty, R. "The Seeds of Disaster" (Doctrine)
Falk "Geo. Thorpe's Pure Logistics" (Logistics)
Futrell, R. "Ideas, Concept, Doctrine" (Airpower)
Giap,V. "People's War, People's Army" (LIC)
Hayashi, S. "Kogun" (Operations)
Horne, A. "To Lose aBattle" (Operations)
Jomini, H. "The Art of War" (Strategy)
Jones, A. "The Art War in the
Western World" (History)
****Keegan, J. "? ? ?" (Leadership)
****Lawrence, T. "? ? ?" (LIC)
Mahan(?) "The ? ? ? Upon History" (Seapower)
O'Sullivan & ? "The Geography of Warfare" (Geography)
Preston "Navies in World War III" (Seapower)
Ridgeway, N. "The Korean War" (Operations)
Solzhenitsyn, A. "August(?) 1914" (History)
Speciar(?) "? Against the Sun" (History)
Summers, M. "On Strategy" (Strategy)
T?ucvoibes "The ? War" (Civ-Mil Relations)
Tolstoy, L. "War and Peace" (Fiction)
Travers, T. "The Killing Ground" (Tactics)
Trythall(?), A. "? Killer(?)" (Biography)
Von Clausewitz "On War" (Theory&Nature of War)

12. Colonel: Minimum of three books (ideally six) annually

Ambrose, S. "The ? Commander" (Biography)
Barnett, C. "The ?" (Leadership)
Brodie, ? "War ?" (Civ-Mil Relations)
Colton(?), B. "Grant Takes Command" (Leadership)
Corbett, J. "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy" (Seapower)
Eccles, N. "Logistics in National Defense" (Logistics)
Forester, C. "The General" (Fiction)
Freeman, D. "Lee's Lieutenants" (Leadership)
Fuller, J. "Grant and Lee" (Operational)
Giap, V. "How We Won the War" (LIC)
Howard, M. "The Theory and Practice of War" (?)
James(?) "The Teams(?) of ?" (Biography)
Kennedy, P. "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers" (Civ-Mil Relations)
?oburger(?) "Seapower in the Falklands" (Seapower)
Luttwak(?), E. "Strategy" (Theory&Nature of War)
Millett & Murray "Military Effectiveness (History)
Murray, W. "The Luftwaffe" (Airpower)
Poiter(?), E. "Nimitz" (Biography)
Ross(?), T. "War in the Modern World" (History)
Sheehan, N. "A Bright and Shining Lie" (LIC)
Simpkins, R. "Race to the Swift" (Operations)
Slim, W. "Defeat Into Victory" (Operations)
Smythe, D. "Pershing" (Biography)
Till, C. "Maritime Strategy in the Nuclear Age" (Seapower)
Weigley, R. "Eisenhower's Lieutenants" (Leadership)

13. General Officers: A general officer reading list was extablished in
1988 and will be expanded. This list was not included in ALMAR 127-89.

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Jun 19, 1990, 12:01:23 AM6/19/90

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From: heg...@sunset.sedd.trw.com
In the post I made of the USMC reading list, I received these corrections
in the category of Lt. Colonel.

Titles for these three authors are as follows;
Keegan, J. "The Mask of Command"
Lawrence, T. "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Mahan, A.T. "The Influence of Sea Power
Upon History 1660-1783"

> ****Keegan, J. "? ? ?" (Leadership)
> ****Lawrence, T. "? ? ?" (LIC)
> Mahan(?) "The ? ? ? Upon History" (Seapower)

Bill, I do not wish to post any further corrections to the list. But I will
still be happy to e-mail the list to anyone who requests it.

[mod.note: Sounds like a deal. Thanks, Tony. - Bill ]

Thanks, Tony

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From: Kameran Kashani <watmath!sco.COM!kamk>
FYI,

The Brodie book might be: "War & Politics," Kenneth Brodie,
Macmilian, 1973.

The list was very interesting, thanks.

kamk

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Gregory K. Ramsey

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From: gr...@anacapa.ncel.navy.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)

Does anyone know of an official or unofficial US Navy reading
list?
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From: mlfi...@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu

In article <1990Jul5.0...@cbnews.att.com>, gr...@anacapa.ncel.navy.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey) writes:
> From: gr...@anacapa.ncel.navy.mil (Gregory K. Ramsey)
>
> Does anyone know of an official or unofficial US Navy reading
> list?
> --

>From "The Naval Officer's Guide" Ninth edition published by Naval Institute
Press, 1983.