ALMAR 027/11: CMC Revision of the Professional Reading Program List
The CMC, General James Amos, announced revisions to the Marine Corps Professional Reading List with the release of ALMAR 027/11 on 8 July, 2011. All Commanding Generals and Commanding Officers are to incorporate the new lists into their Command and Unit PME programs effective immediately.
-Each Marine is required to read the Commandant's Choice
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)
-Each Marine will also read a minimum of one book per grade per year. (CMC encourages all Marines "to discuss and debate the issues raised in reading list books in order to broaden their perspectives and benefit from the experiences of others".
-This requirement is to be recorded and reflected in the Marine's Pro/Con Marks or Fitness Report.
Marine Corps Professional Reading List by Grade
POOLEE/RECRUIT
-I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
-The United States Marines: A History By Edwin H. Simmons
PRIVATE/PRIVATE FIRST CLASS
-A MESSAGE TO GARCIA by Elbert Hubbard
-Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester
-Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
-1984 by George Orwell
-No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
-The Gift of Valor: A War Story
LANCE CORPORAL
-The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
-The Afghan Campaign: A Novel
-My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
-Starship Troopers
-The Ugly American
-We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
CORPORAL
-Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban
-All Quiet on the Western Front Publisher: Ballantine Books
-Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
-Flags of Our Fathers
-Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
-Noble Warrior: The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC (Ret.), Medal of Honor
-Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
-The Defence of Duffer's Drift: A Lesson in the Fundamentals of Small Unit Tactics
-Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq
SERGEANT
-American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam (Modern War Studies)
-Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders
-The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
-The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
-Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics)
-The Village
-Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
-With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
STAFF SERGEANT
-A Bell for Adano
-American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima
-The Arab Mind
-Infantry Attacks
-Battle Cry
-Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
-The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
-The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
-McCoy's Marines: Darkside to Baghdad
-On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
-Soldier of God (Mcgarvey)
-The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
GUNNERY SERGEANT
-Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters
-Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
-Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
-Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
-The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
-On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
-Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph
-The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
-Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Great War Stories)
-We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
MASTER SERGEANT/FIRST SERGEANT
-The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
-The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders
-Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
-Forgotten Warriors: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War (Modern War Studies)
-Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
-The Guns of August
-The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
-Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership
-7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
-The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
-Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT/SERGEANT MAJOR
-Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
-At the Water's Edge : Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault
-The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
-The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
-Crisis Leadership
-The General (Great War Stories)
-The Mask of Command
-No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal
-On War
-A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
OFFICER CANDIDATE/MIDSHIPMAN
-The Armed Forces Officer: 2007 Edition (National Defense University)
-My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
-The United States Marines: A History
-On Infantry
2ND LIEUTENANT/WARRANT OFFICER/
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 2
-The Art of War
-Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
-Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
-Leadership: The Warrior's Art
-The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
-The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
-Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
-The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
-Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific
-A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace
-The Village
1ST LIEUTENANT/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 3
THE FIRST SEVEN BOOKS OF THIS LIST SHOULD BE READ IN ORDER AS THEY TRACE THE EVOLUTION OF WARFARE FROM FIRST TO FOURTH GENERATION.
-The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805
-The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939
-Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
-Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918
-The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
-Fighting Power
-The Transformation of War
-Infantry Attacks
-Battle Leadership
-The Peloponnesian War
-The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
CAPTAIN/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 4
-The Arab Mind -Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
-The General (Great War Stories)
-The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History
-Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General
-The Mask of Command
-Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership
-Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
-Starship Troopers
-The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
-Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Great War Stories)
-We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
MAJOR/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 5
-Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
-The Guns of August
-In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War
-This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
-The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
-The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
-The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
-Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought
-Once An Eagle
-Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
-Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
-Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
-Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
-A Bell for Adano
-The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One-At the Water's Edge : Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault
-The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
-The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
-Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
-Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
-Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
-Forgotten Warriors: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War (Modern War Studies)
-A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
-7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
COLONEL TO GENERAL
-Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Phoenix Press)
-The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
-The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
-Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War (Modern War Studies)
-Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
-Diplomacy (A Touchstone book)
-Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
-How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
-Poorer Richard's America: What Would Ben Say?
-Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
-Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
ALMAR 027/11
-Each Marine is required to read the Commandant's Choice
First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)-Each Marine will also read a minimum of one book per grade per year. (CMC encourages all Marines "to discuss and debate the issues raised in reading list books in order to broaden their perspectives and benefit from the experiences of others".
-This requirement is to be recorded and reflected in the Marine's Pro/Con Marks or Fitness Report.
Marine Corps Professional Reading List by Grade
POOLEE/RECRUIT
-I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
-The United States Marines: A History By Edwin H. Simmons
PRIVATE/PRIVATE FIRST CLASS
-A MESSAGE TO GARCIA by Elbert Hubbard
-Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester
-Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
-1984 by George Orwell
-No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
-The Gift of Valor: A War Story
LANCE CORPORAL
-The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
-The Afghan Campaign: A Novel
-My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
-Starship Troopers
-The Ugly American
-We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
CORPORAL
-Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban
-All Quiet on the Western Front Publisher: Ballantine Books
-Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
-Flags of Our Fathers
-Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
-Noble Warrior: The Life and Times of Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, USMC (Ret.), Medal of Honor-Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
-The Defence of Duffer's Drift: A Lesson in the Fundamentals of Small Unit Tactics
-Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq
SERGEANT
-American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam (Modern War Studies)
-Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders
-The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
-The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
-Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics)
-The Village
-Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
-With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
STAFF SERGEANT
-A Bell for Adano
-American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima
-The Arab Mind -Infantry Attacks
-Battle Cry
-Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
-The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
-The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
-McCoy's Marines: Darkside to Baghdad
-On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
-Soldier of God (Mcgarvey)
-The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
GUNNERY SERGEANT
-Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters
-Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
-Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
-Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill
-The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
-On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
-Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph
-The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
-Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Great War Stories)
-We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
MASTER SERGEANT/FIRST SERGEANT
-The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
-The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders -Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
-Forgotten Warriors: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War (Modern War Studies)
-Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
-The Guns of August
-The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
-Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership
-7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
-The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
-Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
MASTER GUNNERY SERGEANT/SERGEANT MAJOR
-Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
-At the Water's Edge : Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault
-The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
-The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
-Crisis Leadership
-The General (Great War Stories)
-The Mask of Command
-No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal
-On War
-A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
OFFICER CANDIDATE/MIDSHIPMAN
-The Armed Forces Officer: 2007 Edition (National Defense University)
-My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
-The United States Marines: A History
-On Infantry
2ND LIEUTENANT/WARRANT OFFICER/
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 2
-The Art of War
-Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
-Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
-Leadership: The Warrior's Art
-The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
-The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
-Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
-The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
-Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific
-A Tactical Ethic: Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace
-The Village
1ST LIEUTENANT/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 3
THE FIRST SEVEN BOOKS OF THIS LIST SHOULD BE READ IN ORDER AS THEY TRACE THE EVOLUTION OF WARFARE FROM FIRST TO FOURTH GENERATION.
-The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805
-The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939
-Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
-Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918
-The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
-Fighting Power
-The Transformation of War
-Infantry Attacks -Battle Leadership
-The Peloponnesian War
-The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
CAPTAIN/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 4
-The Arab Mind
-Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat -The General (Great War Stories)
-The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History
-Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General
-The Mask of Command
-Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership
-Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
-Starship Troopers
-The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
-Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Great War Stories)
-We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
MAJOR/CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 5
-Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
-The Guns of August
-In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War
-This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
-The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
-The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
-The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
-Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought
-Once An Eagle
-Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln -Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
-Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa
-Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
-A Bell for Adano
-The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
-At the Water's Edge : Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault -The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
-The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
-Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
-Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
-Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945
-Forgotten Warriors: The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War (Modern War Studies)
-A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
-7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores the Changing Face of War in the 21st Century
COLONEL TO GENERAL
-Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Phoenix Press)
-The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
-The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
-Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War (Modern War Studies)
-Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
-Diplomacy (A Touchstone book)
-Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
-How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
-Poorer Richard's America: What Would Ben Say?
-Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
-Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
ALMAR 027/11
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Tags: CMC USMC Reading List professional military reading Marine Corps Professional Reading List
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