A Soldier’s Reading List



The primary goal of modern warfare is the resolution of uncertainties.

This is done through the net-centric fusion, in real time, of multiple sensors, probability analysis, and signal processing to provide multi-platform cooperative engagement capabilities.

You see everything beautifully and can launch offensive or defensive assets at exactly the right targets for the current moment. – Andrei Martyanov, more or less

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Reminiscences
General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur

R. E. Lee
Douglas Southall Freeman

The Gallic Wars
Commentaries On The Gallic War (and here) (Wikipedia)
Roman Proconsul Julius Caesar

The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid
Homer and Virgil

The Iliad
Homer

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov

Aleksei Brusilov
Brusilov Offensive / 1916 Breakthrough / Career

Strategy
Aleksander Svechin

The Evolution Of Operational Art
Georgii Samoilovich Isserson
Related: Randy Noorman, The Russian Way Of War In Ukraine

Deep Operations / Deep Battle
Mikhail TukhachevskyAlexander Svechin – Vladimir Triandafillov

Georgy Zhukov

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko

Ivan Stepanovich Konev

Valery Gerasimov

U.S. Third Army, The Lorraine Campaign, An Overview
Christopher R. Gabel

Elements Of Military Art And Science and here and here
Henry Wager Halleck

The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History,  1660-1783
A. T. Mahan

An Anthology Of Russian Battle Doctrine
Lester W. Grau and Charles K. Bartles

An Anthology Of Slavic Military Studies
David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House +

An Anthology Of Works By / About
CAPT Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.


Who We Are, And Are Not
David R. Graham


A History Of Operational Art
LTC Wilson C. Blythe, U.S. Army

Emerging Naval Concepts & Integration
U.S. Navy, 12 February 2023

A Fateful Error
George F. Kennan

Travels In Arabia Deserta, Volume OneVolume Two
Charles Montagu Doughty

Advice To War Presidents: A Remedial Course In Statecraft — excerpts here
Angelo M. Codevilla

Leftism Revisited: From deSade And Marx To Hitler And PolPot
Erik von Luehnelt-Leddihn

The Templars: Knights Of Christ
Régine Pernoud

The Geographical Pivot Of History
Democratic Ideals And Reality
H. J. Mackinder

On The Plurality Of Civilizations
Feliks Koneczny

General Kenney Reports and here in PDF (31MB)
General George C. Kenney

Mac Arthur: 1941-1951 and here in PDF (46MB)
General Charles A. Willoughby

On the scale of Europe, Mac Arthur’s war took him roughly from the English Channel to the Persian Gulf, a distance at least twice that encompassed by Napoleon, Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great in their most extended campaigns.  When Gen. J. J. Twitty of the Hawaiian Intelligence Center remarked on the ease with which information could be obtained on the Normandy beaches or Anzio as compared with collecting terrain data on Tarawa, he voiced a complaint that was relevant all over the Pacific.  To solve the problem of the nonexistent terrain studies, the necessary Baedekers of war, Mac Arthur’s G-2 had to start absolutely from scratch.   Before the war was over in August 1945, G-2’s Allied Geographical Section, one of the great unappreciated workhorses of the war, had turned out a grand aggregate of 193,555 terrain studies, terrain handbooks, and special reports, most of which had to be done on forced printing deadlines and hurried to troops and staffs on fixed dates, agreed upon for irrevocable operations. Throughout most of the war the documents were flown from Australia hundreds and even thousands of miles to the front, on split-second schedules.  The unmapped terrain of New Guinea and the other islands was more often than not just about as tough and tenacious as the Japanese themselves.

The Prince
(without notes)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Von Clausewitz And Trinitarian Warfare
Christopher Bassford

Born Fighting
James H. Webb, Jr.

How The Scots Invented The Modern World
Arthur Herman

Scottish Highlanders
Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin

Brotherhood of the Bomb
Gregg Herken

U.S. Army Field Manual, No. 100-5
U.S. Department Of The Army, August 1982

U.S. Army Field Manual, 3-0 Operations
U.S. Department Of The Army, October 2022

Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Infantry Rifle Company
U.S. Department Of The Army, November 2020

A Little Masquerade: Russia’s Evolving Employment of
Maskirovka

MAJ Morgan Maier – SAMS – Leavenworth

Deep Operations in the 21st Century
MAJ Tony E. Nicosia – SAMS – Leavenworth

Coup d’oeil: The Commander’s Intuition in Clausewitzian Terms
Major Dominic J. Caraccilo and Major John L. Pothin





Wear the invisible badge of a volunteer of God at all hours and in all places. Let all the days of living be a continuous offering of Love, as an oil lamp exhausts itself in illumining the surroundings. Bend the body, mend the senses, and end the mind – that is the process of attaining the status of ‘the children of immortality,’ which the Upanishads have reserved for man. God is the embodiment of sweetness. Attain Him by offering unto Him, who resides in all, the sweetness that He has showered on you. Crush the cane in the mill of Seva, boil it in the cauldron of penitence; de-colorise it of all sensual itch; offer the crystallised sugar of compassionate love to Him. Man is the noblest of all animals, the final product of untold ages of progressive evolution; but, he is not consciously striving to live up to his heritage!

Ann-Margret

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