Thread by @NKFinney

As an intellectual exercise, @JimRainey10 recently shared the idea of focusing in on one book to be shared at each rank of the military to help them on their intellectual journey in the #profession. Focusing on the @USArmy, here's my list:

E1-3: @TLCplMax, “The White Donkey: Terminal Lance”

smile.amazon.com/The-White-Donk…

E4: TC 3-21.76 (SH 21-76) “The Ranger Handbook”

smile.amazon.com/Official-Army-…

E5: Jim Fredrick, “Black Hearts”

smile.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-P…

Then Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”

smile.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-…

E6: @simonsinek, “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action”

smile.amazon.com/Start-Why-Lead…

E7: @sebastianjunger, “War”

smile.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-…

E8: Ulysses Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”

smile.amazon.com/Ulysses-S-Gran…

E9: Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”

smile.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-…

O1: Michael Howard, “The Use and Abuse of Military History,” RUSI, Vol. 107, Iss. 625 (1962)

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Then Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”

smile.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-…

O2: @Dave_Hodne, “Commanders as Communicators,” ARMY Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 4, April 2016

fromthegreennotebook.com/2017/03/09/com…

Then Jim Fredrick, “Black Hearts”

smile.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-P…

O3: Milan Vego, “On Military Creativity,” Joint Forces Quarterly, Iss. 70 (3rd Quarter 2013)

ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Doc…

Then Ulysses Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”

smile.amazon.com/Ulysses-S-Gran…

O4: Andrew Bacevich, “Progressivism, Professionalism, and Reform,” Parameters, Vol. IX, No.1 (1979)

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA51…

Then Daniel Bolger, “The Ghosts of Omdurman,” Parameters (Autumn, 1991)

apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fullte…

Then Homer, “The Iliad”

smile.amazon.com/Iliad-New-Tran…

O5: Janine Davidson, “Civil-Military Friction and Presidential Decision Making,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 43, no. 1 (March 2013)

cfr.org/content/member…

Then John Brown “Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the United States Army 1989-2005”

smile.amazon.com/Kevlar-Legions…

I'll leave it to more capable folks to take it beyond LTC...& would value NCO comment on the list for the enlisted side of the house. Thanks to @GrizzledBastard @16thSma @WarintheFuture @jbyerly81 @StoneyPortis & @stavridisj for their intellectual spt. Post your list!

PS: Had to repost the thread, since I embedded the wrong tweet up front the first time. It does give me the opportunity to share @Dave_Hodne's O6 recommended reading, though:

“Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory,” by LTG(R) Dubik

amazon.com/Just-War-Recon…