Posted on Jun 3, 2018
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Looking for the best books to read before ARMY OCS. Interested to hear what everyone thinks. (Doesn't have to be OCS related.. Leadership etc..)
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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http://www.mors.org

This is also quite good, ops research is often neglected, integral to wargaming....
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http://www.aoc.org

And this....
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http://www.afa.org

And this....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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http://www.usni.org

This should be reqd reading all svcs....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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Oh, also, the complete works of Alfred Thayer Mahan of Naval War College 19th century....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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I can suggest more ifmyoud want, elaborate as I'd said, if you want more, just ask, OK? Also Gorshkov from the Cold War, the Soviet Admiral, and all the biographical stuff on Adm Hyman Rickover you can get...he autobio of Gen Schwarzkopf It Doesn't Take a Hero is also quite good of course....
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Then, the complete works of Churchill his post WW2 collection, William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and The Nightmare Years, all the works of Sir Hugh Trevor Roper of the UK, the British mil historian..get Al's The Bridge at Remagen, by a former or possibly late US Congressman Ken Hechler, he may Stoll be alive I'm unsure, superb book...all the volumes of Stephen Ambrose...the PBS Ken Burns Civill War TV series on video....
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Sorry, The Proud Tower....
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