Military Command
Title: Team of Teams – New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Author: General Stanley McChrystal
Book Description:
Team of Teams, written by retired Army General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell. General McChrystal calls on his experience commanding special operations forces in Iraq to challenge the status quo of centralized command and control. When General McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly […]
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Title: Washington’s Crossing
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Book Description:
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington–and many other Americans–refused to let the Revolution die. On […]
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Title: Personal Memoirs: Ulysses S. Grant
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
Book Description:
Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant’s is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which […]
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Title: The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence
Author: Roger H Nye
Book Description:
An insightful combat-arms officer, Colonel Nye has produced a one-of-a-kind tool for the professional officer who intends to master his profession. A handbook for mentors as well as junior officers, this work guides the reader through the major aspects of command: developing a professional vision and being a tactician, warrior, moral arbiter, strategist, and mentor. […]
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Title: COMMAND CULTURE: OFFICER EDUCATION IN THE U.S. ARMY AND THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES, 1901-1940, & THE CONSEQUENCES FOR WORLD WAR II
Author: Jorg Muth
Book Description:
The United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled different paths to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before WWII. The author explores the paradox that in Germany officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received an extremely open minded military education, whereas their counterparts in the United States […]
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Title: SUPREME COMMAND: SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, AND LEADERSHIP IN WARTIME
Author: Eliot A. Cohen
Book Description:
This book offers compelling proof that, as Clemenceau put it, “War is too important to leave to the generals.” By examining the shared leadership traits of four politicians (Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion) who triumphed in extraordinarily varied military campaigns, the author argues that active statesmen make the best wartime leaders, […]
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