Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿A comprehensive treatise that covers case studies of command from Napoleonic Wars to UN PSOs. This book concentrates wholly on the all important role of the commanding officer. There are many books which study the art of high command in war, and almost as many on individual acts of heroism. Th...

¿́¿Unlike the past, the success of an organisation can no longer depend on one or a few of its members. While it was previously possible to have a chief executive learning for the organisation, and directing it to achieve its goals and vision, the most successful corporation of the future is the ...

¿́¿This is a unique, gripping account of the perilous showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as to...

¿́¿Defeat Into Victory is Field Marshal William Slim¿́¿s account of the war in World War II Burma. Slim commanded the Fourteenth Army in the campaign and is regarded by many to be the greatest British general of World War II. In contrast to many World War II memoirs, Slim¿́¿s account was modest a...

¿́¿What does it take to get a job done? How do you get the men of your unit to do what you say? To follow you into battle and shoot to kill? How do you build the confidence that spurs men on to do their job, to stand by their leader and each other? Colonel Malone answers these questions in forthr...

¿́¿This book is not about military leadership but rather the importance of reading, and the books a commander needs to achieve military excellence. In it, Roger Nye recommends books to suit various purposes. There are books that discusses the Military Personality, the nature of Command, the conce...

¿́¿This work is specifically written for non-specialist officeholders tasked with enhancing security awareness in their organisation. ¿́¿foremost, a study of people, and secondarily, a model for effective security training programs¿́¿. The authors worked for the US Dept of Defense, where they fou...

¿́¿In this book John Keegan covers the five fundamental stages in intelligence practice: acquisition, delivery, acceptance, interpretation and implementation of this intelligence. He uses case studies to illustrate various points about the collection and use of intelligence and concluded that goo...