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Army Chief of Staff Reading List

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy

December 16, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I read all three of these books as they are on the Army Chief of Staff Reading List.  That list is a bi-annual list the highest ranking member of the Army publishes for professional development.  Sometimes the lists are highly curated and you can see the purpose and direction intended.  Sometimes, they are just a huge collection of non-fiction books that people have been told to read for years.  The current list has 120+ books and seems to have no defining theme.  The books in […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Army Chief of Staff, drones, economy, H.R. McMaster, LBJ, Paul Kennedy, Paul Scharre, Vietnam, war

thewheelbarrow's CBR11 Review No:40 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Army Chief of Staff, drones, economy, H.R. McMaster, LBJ, Paul Kennedy, Paul Scharre, Vietnam, war ·
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