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SPACE AND MISSILES
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Military Education
and Professional Reading
- General Fogleman's suggested reading list.
- -Gen Fogleman has authorized the Air Force
to purchase the books on the basic list for every captain, beginning March
1. From that time on, when officers pin on captain, they will receive
a shipment of all 13 books on the basic list.
- -Officers are encouraged to have read as many
of the books before attending Squadron Officers School. Then, captains
will have the opportunity to discuss and report on selections from the
basic list while at SOS (Space and Missile Times, 14 Feb, 1997).
Basic List:- Sun Tzu, "The
Art of War," Willaim Morrow & Co.
- Phillip Meilinger,
"10 Propositions," Air Force History and Museums
- James
Stokesbury, "A Short History of Air Power," William Morrow
& Co.
- Donald Phillips, "Lincoln on Leadership," Warner Books
- Tom Wolfe, "The Right Stuff," Bantam Books
- James Hudson, " Hostile Skies," Syracuse University Press
- DeWitt Copp, "A Few Great Captains," Air Force Historical
Foundation
- Geoffrey Perret, "Winged Victory," Random House
- John Sherwood, "Officers in Flight Suits," NYU Press
- T.R. Fehrenbach, "This Kind of War," Brassey's
- Jack Broughton,
"Thud Ridge, Imagination Transportation, Inc.
- Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway, "We Were Soldiers Once
and Young," Harper Collins
- Richard Reynolds, "Heart of the Storm," Air University
Press
Intermediate List:- Peter Paret, " Makers of Modern Strategy," Princeton University
Press
- Tony Mason, "Air Power: A Centennial Appraisal," Brassey's
- George Kenney, "General Kenney Reports," Air Force History
and Museums
- Doanld Slayton,
"Deke!" Forge Books
- Lee Kennett, "The First Air War," Smithsonian Institution
Press
- Thomas Hughes, "Over Lord," Free Press
- Frank Futrell, "USAF in Korea," Air Force History and
Museums
- Mark Codfelter, "The Limits of Airpower," Free Press
- Richard Hallion, "Storm Over Iraq," Smithsonian Institution
Press
Advanced List:- Carl von Clauswitz, "On War," Princeton
University Press
- I.B. Holley, Ideas and Weapons," Air
Force History and Museums
- James Belasco and Ralph Stayer, "Flight
of the Buffalo," Warner Books
- Walter McDougall, "The Heavans and the
Earth," John Hopkins University Press
- Ray Fredette, "The Sky on Fire,"
Smithsonian Institution Press
- R.J. Overy, " Why the Allies Won,"
Norton
- Phillip Meilinger, "Hoyt Vandenberg,"
Indiana University Press
- Ulysses Sharp, "Strategy for Defeat,"
Presidio Press
- James Winnefeld and Dana Johnson, " Joint
Air Operations," Naval Institute
- Roger Beaumont, "Joint Military Operations,"
Greenwood
- Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, "The
General's War," Little Brown & Company
- John Warden, "The Air Campaign,"
Brassey's
My suggested reading list:
- George E. Day, "Return With Honor,"
Champlin Museum Press
- Blumington, "The Patton Papers 1940-1945."
- Alvin
and Heidi Toffler, "War and Anti-War."
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