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United States Military Academy Commandant Reading List AY20-1
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,217 ratings
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This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
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4.17 avg rating — 4,237 ratings
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What It is Like to Go to War
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4.01 avg rating — 9,751 ratings
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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Jocko Willink (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 97,681 ratings
score: 97,
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
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4.59 avg rating — 8,726 ratings
score: 96,
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Gates of Fire
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Steven Pressfield (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 42,807 ratings
score: 95,
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Once an Eagle
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4.40 avg rating — 7,394 ratings
score: 94,
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
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4.30 avg rating — 13,547 ratings
score: 93,
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Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War
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3.92 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 92,
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House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
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4.33 avg rating — 7,535 ratings
score: 91,
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
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4.12 avg rating — 8,578 ratings
score: 90,
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The Red Badge of Courage
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3.30 avg rating — 109,290 ratings
score: 89,
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The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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4.33 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
score: 88,
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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
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Jim Frederick (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 4,650 ratings
score: 87,
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Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat
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4.21 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
score: 86,
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The Leader's Bookshelf
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James G. Stavridis (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 916 ratings
score: 85,
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
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3.99 avg rating — 15,715 ratings
score: 84,
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The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
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Ori Brafman (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 449 ratings
score: 83,
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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3.99 avg rating — 63,386 ratings
score: 82,
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 617,788 ratings
score: 81,
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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
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Ori Brafman (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 6,210 ratings
score: 80,
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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
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L. David Marquet (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 20,736 ratings
score: 79,
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Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership
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3.96 avg rating — 558 ratings
score: 78,
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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4.16 avg rating — 809,714 ratings
score: 77,
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
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Daniel Coyle (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 34,526 ratings
score: 76,
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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4.22 avg rating — 1,126,433 ratings
score: 75,
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It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
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4.09 avg rating — 6,907 ratings
score: 74,
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 238,858 ratings
score: 73,
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Dare to Lead
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 123,744 ratings
score: 72,
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 554,519 ratings
score: 71,
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Our Iceberg Is Melting
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John P. Kotter (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 17,360 ratings
score: 70,
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The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
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Sean McFate (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
score: 69,
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Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
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4.18 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 68,
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
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4.25 avg rating — 3,415 ratings
score: 67,
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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
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P.W. Singer (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 11,735 ratings
score: 66,
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
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P.W. Singer (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
score: 65,
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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
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3.80 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
score: 64,
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Scales on War: The Future of America's Military at Risk
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3.88 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 63,
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
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Ruchir Sharma (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
score: 62,
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Waging Insurgent Warfare: Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State
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3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 61,
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
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David Kilcullen (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 998 ratings
score: 60,
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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
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3.87 avg rating — 781 ratings
score: 59,
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
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4.04 avg rating — 4,101 ratings
score: 58,
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