2d Lieutenant / Warrant offiCer / Chief Warrant offiCer 2

Captain / Chief Warrant offiCer 4

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

The Art of War - by Sun Tzu (CMC 355.02) Blink - by Malcolm Gladwell (CMC 153.44) Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula (CMC 355.4) Leadership: The Warriors Art by Christopher D. Kolenda, Watler F., Jr. Ulmer & The Mission, the Men and Me by Pete Blaber (CMC 956) The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot (CMC 327.73) Soldiers of God by Robert D. Kaplan (CMC 358.104) The Speed of Trust
Barry R. McCaffrey (CMC 355.3)

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

by Raphael Patai (CMC 305.892)

Lieutenant CoLoneL

The Arab Mind

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96) A Bell for Adano - by John Hersey (CMC F)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

The Defense of Hill 781 by James McDonough (CMC 355.4) The General - by C.S. Forrester (CMC F) The Lions of Iwo Jima
by Fred Haynes (CMC 940.54) by Erich Von Manstein (CMC 940.54)

The Accidental Guerilla

At the Waters Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assult

by Theodore Gatchel (CMC 355.46)

by David Kilcullen (CMC 355.425)

U.S. MARINE CORPS Professional Reading List

Lost Victories

The Mask of Command Passion of Command

by John Keegan (CMC 355.3) by Bryan McCoy (CMC 355) Sources of Power - by Gary Klein (CMC 658.4) Starship Troopers - by Robert Heinlein (CMC F) The Tipping Point - by Malcom Gladwell (CMC 302)

by Stephen M.R. Covey (CMC 174.4)

Defeat into Victory - by William Slim (CMC 940.54) Forgotten Warriors

by Thomas Hammes (CMC 959.704)

by Victor Hanson (CMC 904.7)

The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Frieser (CMC 940.5421) The Bottom Billion - by Paul Collier (CMC 338.9) Brute: The Life Of Victor Krulak by Robert Coram (CMC B) Carnage and Culture

2011-2014

Storm Landing by Joseph H. Alexander (CMC 940.54) A Tactical Ethic - by Dick Couch (CMC 172.42) The Village - by Bing West (CMC 959.7)

Victory at High Tide by Robert D. Heinl (CMC 951.9) We Were Soldiers Once and Young - by Harold G.
Moore & Joseph L. Galloway (CMC 959.704)

A Peace To End All Peace by David Fromkin (CMC 327.56) Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich (CMC 355.02)

2st Lieutenant / Chief Warrant offiCer 3

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

Major / Chief Warrant offiCer 5

Fighting Power

by Robert Doughty (CMC 940.54)

The Enlightened Soldier by Charles Edward White (CMC 355.006) Seeds of Disaster by Robert Doughty (CMC 355.009) Stormtrooper Tactics by Bruce I. Gudmundsson (CMC 940.4) Command or Control by Marin Samuels (CMC 355.0335) The Breaking Point

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

CoLoneL to GeneraL

Transformation of War by Charles Edward White (CMC 355.02) Attacks

by Martin L. Van Creveld (CMC 355..02)

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Nathaniel Philbrick (CMC 973.8) by Thomas Friedman (CMC 337) Masters of War - by Michael Handel (CMC 355.02) Once An Eagle - by Anton Myrer (CMC F)

by Robert Strassler (CMC 938.05)

The Crucible of War by Fred Anderson (CMC 973.26) The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (CMC 940.3) In the Gray Area - by Seth Folsom This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach (CMC 951.904) The Landmark Thucydides

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

by Colin Gray (CMC 355.020)

Another Bloody Century The Coldest Winter

The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis (CMC 297.72) Decoding Clausewitz

by David Halberstam (CMC 951.904)

Battle of Leadership by Adolf Von Schell (CMC 355.4) The Peloponnesian War

by Erwin Rommel (CMC B)

The Last Stand of Fox Company

by Donald Kagan (CMC 938.05)

by Bob Drury & Tom Calvin (CMC 951.904)

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - by Doris Goodwin (CMC 973.7) Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by M. Weiss (CMC 959.704) Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander (CMC 940.54) Wired for War - by P.W. Singer (CMC 355.02)

by Jon Sumida (CMC 355.02)

by Eliot A. Cohen (CMC 322.5)

Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam - by H.R. McMaster (CMC 959.704) Diplomacy - by Henry Kissinger (CMC 327.73) Fault Lines: How Hidden Practures Still Threaten the World by Raghuram Rajan (CMC 330.9) How Wars End - by Gideon Rose (CMC 355.02) Poorer Richards America - by Tom Blair Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief - by James McPherson (CMC 973.7) Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

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First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

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Im Staying With My Boys

Once A Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commanders Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery - by Nick Popaditch & Mike Steere Marines in the Garden of Eden by Richard Lowry (CMC 956.7044)
serGeant
(CMC 956.7044)

Gunnery serGeant

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

Master Gunnery serGeant / serGeant Major

The United States Marines: A History by Edwin H. Simmons (CMC 359.9)

private/private first CLass

by Jim Proser & Jerry Cutter (CMC 940.5412)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

The Gift of Valor

by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.9) A Message to Garcia - by Elbert Hubbard (CMC F) Rifleman Dodd - by C.S. Forester (CMC F) Blink - by Malcolm Gladwell (CMC 153.44) 1984 - by George Orwell (CMC F) No True Glory - by Bing West (CMC 956.7044)

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

American Soldiers by Peter S. Kindsvatter (CMC 355.009) Common Sense Training

Counterinsurgency Warfare

by Arthur S. Collins (CMC 355.5) by David Galula (CMC 355.4)

Afghan Guerilla Warfare by Ali Jalali & Lester W. Grau (CMC 356.042) Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by M. Sallah & M. Weiss (CMC 359.704) Island of the Damned by R.V. Burgin & Bill Marvel (CMC 940.54) Killing Groung on Okinawa by James H. Hallas (CMC 940.54) The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber (CMC 956) On Combat - by Dave Grossman &
Loren W. Christensen (CMC 355.0019)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

Achilles in Vietnam

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

At the Waters Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault The Crisis of Islam
by Theodore Gatchel (CMC 355.46) by Bernard Lewis (CMC 297.72) The Coldest War - by David Halberstam

by Jonathan Shay (CMC 616.85)

by Michael M. Phillips (CMC 956.7044)

LanCe CorporaL

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96) The 360 Degree Leader
by John Maxwell (CMC 658.4)

The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield (CMC F) My Men are My Heroes by Nathaniel R. Helms (CMC 956.7044) Starship Troppers - by Robert Heinlein (CMC F) The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick & William J. Lederer (CMC F) We Were One by Patrick K. ODonnell (CMC 956.7004)

by S.L.A. Marshall (CMC 355.4) Storm of Steel - by Ernst Junger (CMC 940.4) The Village - by Bing West (CMC 359.7) Tip of the Spear - by G.J. Michaels (CMC 956.7044) With the Old Breed - by E. B. Sledge (CMC 950.54)

From the Horses Mouth by Major Ted McKeldin (CMC 355) The Killer Angels - by Michael Shaara (CMC F) A Soldiers Load & The Mobility of a Nation

Ride the Thunder by Richard Botkin (CMC B) The Savage Wars of Peace
by Max Boot (CMC 327.73)

Victory at High Tide by Robert D. Heinl (CMC 951.9) We Were Soldiers Once and Young - by Harold G.
Moore & Joseph L. Galloway (CMC 959.704)

by John Keegan (CMC 355.3)

Crisis Leadership by Gene Klann (CMC 658.4 ) The General - by C.S. Forrester (CMC 359 F) The Mask of Command No Bended Knee by Merril B. Twining (CMC 904.54) On War - by Carl Von Clausewitz (CMC 355.02) A Peace to End All Peace

by David Fromkin (CMC 327.56)

Master serGeant / first serGeant

offiCer Candidate / MidshipMan

staff serGeant

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps The Accidental Guerilla Courageous Follower Fields of Battle
by David Kilcullen (CMC 355.425) by Ira Chaleff (CMC 302.3) by John Keegan (CMC 904.7)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96) A Bell for Adano - by John Hersey (CMC F)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

The Armed Forces Officer, DoD 2006 My Men Are My Heroes

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96)

American Spartans

CorporaL

LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret) (CMC 359.96) Afghanistan- by Stephen Tanner (CMC 958.1)

First to Fight: An Inside View of the US Marine Corps

by James A. Warren (CMC 359.9) The Arab Mind - by Raphael Patai (CMC 305.892) Attacks - by Erwin Rommel (CMC B) Battle Cry - by Leon Uris (CMC F)

The Defense of Hill 781 The Face of Battle

Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes (CMC 954.704) Ghost Wars

by Nathaniel R. Helms (CMC 956.7044)

United States Marines: A History by Edwin H. Simmons (CMC 359.9) On Infantry by John A. English (CMC 356.1)

by James McDonough (CMC 355.4) by John Keegan (CMC 940)

The Guns of August

by Steve Coll (CMC 958.104)

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (CMC F) Chosen Soldier - by Dick Couch (CMC 356.704) Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley (CMC 940.54) Ghost Soldiers - by Hampton Sides (CMC 940.54) Noble Warrior - by James E. Livingston, Colin D.
Heaton & Anne-Marie Lewis (CMC B)

The Last Stand of Fox Company McCoys Marines Soldiers of God

The Lexus and the Olive Tree The Passion of Command Seven Deadly Scenarios
by Bryan McCoy (CMC 355)

by Barbara W. Tuchman (CMC 940.3) by Thomas Friedman (CMC 337)

by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin (CMC 591.904)

by John Koopman (CMC 956.7044) On Killing - by Dave Grossman (CMC 355)

by Andrew Krepinevich (CMC 355.02)

The Defence of Duffers Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton (CMC 355.02)

The Speed of Trust

by David Hagberg (CMC 598.104) by Stephen M.R. Covey (CMC 174.4)

The Sling and the Stone by Thomas X. Hammes (CMC 355.42) Technology and War by Martin L. Van Creveld (CMC 355)