CNO's Reading List:
CNO Professional Reading List
BASIC | INTERMEDIATE | ADVANCED | LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Basic
* All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque. 1929. PT2635 .E68I625
* American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964. William Raymond Manchester. 1978. E745 .M3M27
* Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to black holes. Stephen W, Hawking. 1988. QB981 .H377 1988
* The Caine Mutiny, a novel of World War II. Herman Wouk. 1951. PS3345 .O98C29
* Command of the Seas. John Lehman. 1988. VA58.4 .L44 1988
* The Cruel Sea. Nicholas Monsarrat. 1951. PR6025 .O36C78
* Everything We Had: an oral history of the Vietnam War. Al Santoli. 1981. DS559.5 .E88
* Flight of the Intruder. Stephen Coonts. 1986. PS3553 .O5796F5 1986
* Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy. 1984. PS3553 .L245H8 1984
* In Love and War: the story of a family’s ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years. James B. Stockdale. 1984. DS559.4 .S75 1984
* In Search of Excellence: lessons from America's best-run companies. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. 1982. HD70 .U5P424 1982
* The Killer Angels. Michael Shaara. 1974. PS3569 .H2K55
* On Watch: a memoir. Elmo R. Zumwalt. 1976. V63 .Z85A33 1976
* Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane. 1925. PS1449 .C85R3
* Red Storm Rising. Tom Clancy. 1986. PS3553 .L245R4 1986
* The Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe. 1979. TL789.8 .U5W64 1979
* Run Silent, Run Deep. Edward Latimer Beach. 1955. PS3552 .E12R8
* The Russians. Hedrick Smith. 1976. DK276 .S53 1976
* The Sand Pebbles: a novel. Richard McKenna. 1962. PS3563 .A3155S3 (S26)
* The Source. James Albert Michener. 1965. PS3525 .I19S57
* Two Ocean War: a short history of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Samuel Eliot Morison. 1963. D773 .M62
* The United States Navy: 200 years. Edward Latimer Beach. 1986. VA55 .B36 1986
* War and Remembrance. Herman Wouk. 1978. PS3545 .O98W3
* Winds of War: a novel. Herman Wouk. 1971. PS3545 .O98W55
Intermediate
* Admiral Arleigh Burke. Elmer Belmont Potter. 1990. E746 .B87P68 1990
* The American Way of War: a history of United States military strategy and policy. Russell Frank Weigley. 1973. E181 .W45
* At Dawn We Slept: the untold story of Pearl Harbor. Gordon William Prange. 1981. D767.92 .P72
* The Atlantic Campaign: World War II’s great struggle at sea. Dan Van der Vat. 1988. D770 .V28 1988
* Assignment Pentagon: the insider’s guide to the Potomac puzzle palace. Perry McCoy Smith. 1989. UA26 .A745S55
* A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Neil Sheehan. 1988. DS558 .S47 1988
* Bull Halsey. Elmer Belmont Potter. 1985. E746 .H3P68
* Chrysanthemum and the Sword: patterns of Japanese culture. Ruth Benedict. 1946. DS821 .B46
* Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lieutenants and their war. Eric Larrabee. 1987. E807 .L26 1987
* The Deming Management Method. Mary Walton. 1988. HD38 .D439W35 1988
* Eagle Against the Sun: the American war with Japan. Ronald H. Spector. 1985. D767 .S69 1985
* Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945. David Eisenhower. 1986. E836 .E38
* The Face of Battle. John Keegan. 1976. D25 .K43 1976
* Fate is the Hunter. Ernest Kellogg Gann. 1961. PS3513 .A56F3
* First to Fight: an inside view of the U.S. Marine Corps. Victor H. Krulak. 1984. VE23 .K78 1984
* From Hiroshima to Glastnost: at the center of decision, a memoir. Paul Nitze. 1989. E748 .N49A3 1989
* The Future of Sea Power. Eric Grove. 1990. V163 .G76 1990
* The Guns of August. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman. 1962. D530 .T8
* Kaizen: the key to Japan’s competitive success. Masaaki Imai. 1986. HD70 .J3I547 1986b
* The KGB Today: the hidden hand. John Barron. 1983. HV8225 .B373 1983
* The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill. William Manchester. 1983. DA566.9 .C5M26 1983
* Makers of Modern Strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age. Peter Paret. 1986. U162 .M25 1986
* The Maritime Strategy, Geopolitics, and the Defense of the West. Colin S. Gray. 1986. VA50 .G73 1986
* The Mask of Command. John Keegan. 1987. UB210 .K44 1987
* Master of Sea Power: a biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Thomas B. Buell. 1980. V63 .K56B83
* Miracle at Midway. Gordon William Prange. 1982. D774 .M5P7 1982
* Modern Times: the world from the twenties to the eighties. Paul Johnson. 1983. D421 .J64 1983
* Mountbatten. Philip Ziegler. 1985. DA89.1 .M59Z54 1985
* Nelson: a biography. David Walder. 1978. DA87.1 .N4W24 1978
* Out of the Crisis. William Edwards Deming. 1986. HD70 .U5D45 1986
* The Pentagon and the Art of War: the question of military reform. Edward Littwak. 1984. UA23 .L86
* Presidency and the Management of National Security. Carnes Lord. 1988. UA23 .L7 1988
* The Price of Admiralty: the evolution of naval warfare. John Keegan. 1989. V53 .K44 1989
* The Quiet Warrior: a biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Thomas B. Buell. 1974. V63 .S68B3
* The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776-1918. Harold Hance Sprout. 1939. E182 .S78
* The Rivals: America and Russia since WWII. Adam Bruno Ulam. 1971. E183.8 .R9U4
* Sea Power: a Naval history. Elmer Belmont Potter. 1960. D27 .S37
* The Second World War. John Keegan. 1990. D743 .K39 1990
* Silent Victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Clay Blair. 1975. D783 .B58
* Today’s Isms: communism, fascism, capitalism, socialism. William Ebenstein. 1954. HN18 .E2
* The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947. John Lewis Gaddis. 1972. E744 .G25
* Vietnam: a history. Stanley Karnow. 1983. DS558 .K37
Advanced
* America at Century’s End. James Schlesinger. 1989. E876 .S35 1989
* The Art of War. Sun-tzu. 1988. U101 .S95
* Cold Dawn: the story of SALT. John Newhouse. 1973. JX1974.7 .N47
* Democracy in America. Alexis de Tocqueville. 1966. JK216 .T7
* Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: theory and practice. Alexander L. George. 1974. E744 .G46 1974
* Fleet Tactics: theory and practice. Wayne P. Hughes. 1986. V167 .H84 1986
* From Beirut to Jerusalem. Thomas L. Friedman. 1989. DS119.7 .F736
* The Geopolitics of Super Power. Colin S. Gray. 1988. UA23 .G7786 1988
* How Democracies Perish. Jean Francois Revel. 1984. HX518 .S8R4713 1984
* The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783. Alfred Thayer Mahan. 1890. D27 .M214
* Man, the State, and War: a theoretical analysis. Kenneth Neal Waltz. 1959. JX1308 .W3
* Military Strategy: a general theory of power control. Joseph Caldwell Wylie. 1967. U162 .W9
* Origins of Maritime Strategy: American naval strategy in the first postwar decade. Michael A. Palmer. 1988. VA58 .P28 1988
* On War. Carl von Clausewitz. 1873. U102 .C65
* Power and Change: the administrative history of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1946-1986. Thomas C. Hone. 1989. VA58 .H58 1989
* Seapower and Strategy. Colin S. Gray and Roger W. Barnett. 1989 V25 .S424 1989
* The Soldier and the State: the theory and politics of civil-military relations. Samuel P. Huntington. 1957. UA23 .H95
* Some Principles of Maritime Strategy. Sir Julian Stafford Corbett. 1911. V163 .C7
* Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in retrospect. Ulysses S. Grant Sharp. 1978. DS558 .S46
* Strategy: the logic of war and peace. Edward Luttwak. 1987. U162 .L874 1987
* The Ultra Secret. Frederick William Winterbotham. 1974. D810 .C88W56 1974
* U.S. Defense Policy in an Era of Constrained Resources. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. and Richard H. Shultz, Jr. 1990. UA23 .U185 1990
* The U.S. Navy: the view from the mid-1980s. James L. George. 1985. VA58.4 .U55 1985
* The U.S. Navy: the view from the mid-1990s. James L. George. 1992. VA58.4 .G46 1992
* War and Politics. Bernard Brodie. 1973. JX1391 .B68
* The White House Years. Henry Kissinger. 1979. E855 .K57
Suggested Books on Leadership and Management
* Execution. Larry Bossidy, et al.
* Good to Great. Jim Collins
* Primal Leadership. Daniel Goleman
* Leadership Is An Art. Max Depree
* The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Stephen R. Covey
* Leading Change. John P. Kotter
* The Power of Alignment. George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky
* Powerful Conversations. Phil Harkins
* The Psychology of Winning. Denis Waitley (on order)
* The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry. Sue Annis Hammond
* Halftime. Bob Buford (no longer in print; however, the Library has an AV version -- Library also has Stuck In Halftime by the same author, and Game Plan on order)
* The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. John C. Maxwell
* What Leaders Really Do. John P. Kotter
* Faith Of My Fathers. John McCain
* The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels. Michael Watkins
* Play To Your Strengths. Haig Nalbatian, et al.
* Yellow Smoke. Robert H. Scales
* The Iraq War. Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales
* Mustin: A Naval Family of the Twentieth Century. John Fass Morton
* The Cruel Sea. Nicholas Monsarrat
* First To Fight: An Inside View of the U. S. Marine Corps. Victor H. Krulak
* Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima. James Bradley
Last updated: 6 May 2005
