Collection: Professional Readings

¿́¿This publication provides an excellent account of the realities of war and the challenges of leading troops in the battlefield, covering many of the problems faced during military operations and examining historical situations for Australian troops.¿́¿ -- SAF Professional Reading Programme, 4t...

¿́¿This book may appear aimed at enlisted infantrymen, but it has all ranks and military occupational specialties as its target audience. There are no front lines in modern war; the enemy goes after airfields, fuel farms, maintenance facilities, etc. first. This book shows non-infantry commanders...

¿́¿This is a thoughtful piece of literature which examines the influences on leadership in the present uncertain and changing times. Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the non-profits, and in teaching, H...

¿́¿This work gives comprehensive coverage to the most notorious American war crime of the Vietnam War and the authors have strived to research facts and present them in an unemotional manner. Throughout the US and Vietnam, the authors have tracked down and interviewed survivors of the massacre, p...

¿́¿This work gives comprehensive coverage to the most notorious American war crime of the Vietnam War and the authors have strived to research facts and present them in an unemotional manner. Throughout the US and Vietnam, the authors have tracked down and interviewed survivors of the massacre, p...

¿́¿Thompson has produced a study of the place of logistics in the military campaign, using a number of campaigns to illustrate how the problem of supplying forces has been tackled over the centuries. By examining the changes in logistics operations over selected campaigns, Thompson identifies the...

¿́¿What makes for innovations in war-making? The answers of this careful study, based primarily on American military experiences this century, run refreshingly against intuition: innovation seems easier in peacetime than war, for the fog of the latter covers all; it is no harder during periods of...

¿́¿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 is a collection of high quality papers on strategy from the times of Machiavelli to the present nuclear age. The reader can focus on any era of his choice since the various essays stand alone with related papers adjacent to each other. This book provides a comprehensive account of major deve...