The time has come for EVERY U.S. Army Soldier, and not just officers to get his head into the art of war and develop a "coup d'oeil" or understanding of everything at-a-glance. The days of the enlistedmen as the whip crackers who handles details only and the officers thinking about "bigger issues" is over and has been a disaster for everyone. ALL issues are the concern of ALL Army Soldiers, anything less and we will continue to be out-smarted by asymmetric advantage seeking enemies. The Army should have a reading list of military books for promotion points and in addition to these the following books should be read at various milestones during Army service:

ENLISTMENT/JOINING ROTC/OCS

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

BASIC TRAINING

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg (movie to watch)

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AIRBORNE SCHOOL

Curahee! by Donald Burgett

IOBC/IAT

The Killer Angels by Michael Schaara
Once and Eagle by Anton Myrer

PLDC/Advanced Course

We Were Soldiers Once and Young by LTG Hal Moore and Joe Galloway

BNCOC

The Last 100 Yards by H.J. Poole

ANCOC

Strategy by B.H. Liddell-Hart

Combined Arms Staff and Services School or "CAS Cubed"

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

ALL Soldiers regardless of rank/position should read Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century by BG David Grange (Retired) et al to get a better sense of the direction Army transformation needs to move towards.

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