Posted on Feb 2, 2016
What are everyone's favorite military/leadership reads?
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Aside from docterine and training publications; What are some of everyone's favorite reads on the military/ leadership?
Posted 10 y ago
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Lincoln on Leadership
Grant's Memoir's
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
Unbroken
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
The Face of Battle
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Lemay
Patton: A Genius for War
The Civil War Vol I-III by Shelby Foote
Grant's Memoir's
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
Unbroken
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
The Face of Battle
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Lemay
Patton: A Genius for War
The Civil War Vol I-III by Shelby Foote
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CPT (Join to see) The following are my favorite military reads
My favorite leadership book is the Bible
Other books that have helped me become a better leader are:
On Infantry by John English,
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon; Great Captains Unveiled; T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After by CPT H. H. Liddell Hart,
The Theory of war by carl von Clausewitz
Brave Men; Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle
Attacks by Erwin Rommel
Panzer Battles by F.W. von Mellenthin
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Bible and Sword; A Distant Mirror by Barbara S. Tuchman
Crusades in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
My favorite leadership book is the Bible
Other books that have helped me become a better leader are:
On Infantry by John English,
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon; Great Captains Unveiled; T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After by CPT H. H. Liddell Hart,
The Theory of war by carl von Clausewitz
Brave Men; Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle
Attacks by Erwin Rommel
Panzer Battles by F.W. von Mellenthin
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Bible and Sword; A Distant Mirror by Barbara S. Tuchman
Crusades in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My favorite read on leadership is "Verbal Judo". I made all my team leaders read it in two of my commands and my center commanders read it when I commanded a recruiting company. Reading this book helps leaders remain calm, resolve/diffuse conflict, and gets them thinking through situations that could potentially become volatile, which has many applications both internal and external to one's organization.
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