A strange story to make it to the front page. I'm a US Army Engineer officer who went through this schoolhouse so this made me chuckle. Commanders'/Commandants' reading lists are almost always excellent. It's usually a mix of military history, area studies, professional development, and leadership books. I think every young officer who likes to read dreams of making up his or her own reading list someday.
Interesting list. It's also interesting to see compare the lists for different ranks and see how the focus changes.<p>e.g. Enlisted get a lot of books about courage and valor, higher up guys get recommended books that seem more like cautionary tales.
I love that the list includes GS grades for DoD civilians.<p>There's some really interesting books in these lists. I already had Washington's Crossing queued up.<p>Seeing PowerPoint in the title of a GS-14/15 recommendation gave me a chuckle.
Maybe at least one book about what to do after you dropped tons of bombs and killed thousand of civilians would help to prevent the usual collapse of civilizations and rising of warlords. But of course I do understand that there is more money to make with a collapsed nation.