What books should an aspiring Marine officer read?

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Read the sea power works of Capt. Alfred Thayer Mayan, look him up. Get the autobiography of Adm. Gorshkov from the Soviet Navy from the Cold War period, and all biographical and/or autobiographical material on Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, an essential contrast, I can assure you, well worth the effort to read. Get Thucydides History of the Pelopenesian War. Get Tue actual texts by Caesar in the Punic War, as well as all of the Caesarean classics, he actually wrote a good deal, his material has long been deemed essential reading. Get the text The Valor of Homer Lea, from the 1920s-30s in Asia pre WW2, you'll see why. Let me send this and I'll send more, where I'd been assigned had all of that, and more, I can assure you, all well worth the time to read, promise.

Sorry, I hit send by mistake, I'd been suggesting you submit th USAF AFIT, the USAF grad school at Wright Pat, as well as Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterrey, Calif, near the Presidio. Also, if your GPA is decent enough, think about trying for Rhodes Scholar, that's just a thought. I can tell you that pretty much guaranteed, you're going to be expected to get a masters pretty much immediately, even if only part time to start, the faster the better. When I'd been USAF, they were really, really serious about wanting their PME done ASAP. I did Squadron Officer School (SOS) and USMC Command and Staff by correspondence, I'd wanted to do the Naval War College (NWC) command and staff correspondence program, and did in fact try, I just wasn't able to get it done, if its allowed, I'd certainly ask. I'd also ask similarly, for like reason, therefore, to be allowed to do PME in other services, by all means, if at all possible. As to specific texts, read Nimitz, by E. B. Potter. Read as many if the Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books series as you can, as well, if they're still in print, trust me, you'd immediately see why, esp. the first volume, called The Great Conversation, about the entire train of Western thought. Read On War by Clausewitz. Read the writings of Nicolo Machiavelli. All ofthe writings of William Manchester, esp. American Caesar about Gen. MacArthur, as well as The Arms of Krupp about the Krupp munition family of WW2. Read the autobiographies of Gens. Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan from the Civil War. Read Plain Speaking by Merle Miller by him and Pres. Truman. Read Crusade in Europe by Gen. Eisenhower. Read Eisenhower was my Boss, by Capt. Kay Summersby, you'd realize why. Read the entire WW2 memoirs of Churchill. Read the autobiography of Gen. Colin Powell, positively, trust me. Let me send this for now, and I'll send you more as rapidly as I can, if you could elaborate on your ambitions, GPA, major, and school, as well as what you'd wamt in grad school, that'd also help, so far as you might care to go into, at all, hope was of interest, many thanks.

That's an interesting question; I've always favored autobiography, as well as biography, a good deal, albeit not necessarily exclusively. Then, too, that depends on your branch, of course. I'd been Army ROTC three years, though I eventually went USAF OTS instead. Fortunately, where I'd been assigned had a really good installation library, as well as a really serious technical library as well. The site mentioned here is quite good, I looked at it. However, to answer you adequately, it'd help, though isn't immediately essential, to know where you're doing undergrad now, which school, which program, which major, your GPA, and your interests. I can pretty much tell you that you're going to have to do a masters immediately, even if part time. If you've done well enough, think about submitting to both USAF AFIT, the

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