Reading List

Leadership

Churchill by J. Rufus Fears, The Great Courses
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam M. Grant PhD
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
The Wisdom of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting by John F Antal
The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis, Bing West
Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War by L. Scott Lingamfelter
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
Next War: Reimagining How We Fight by John F Antal
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Potsdam by Michael Neiberg
Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World by Ian Bremmer
Targeted: Beirut by Jack Carr, James M. Scott
The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury
The Kill Chain by Christian Brose
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace by Oscar Jonsson
The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, & Covert Operations by Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose
Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why by Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses
History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective by Gregory S. Aldrete, The Great Courses
History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach by Gregory S. Aldrete, The Great Courses
Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy by Pamela Radcliff, The Great Courses
Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers by The Great Courses, Andrew R. Wilson
The History of the United States, 2nd Edition by The Great Courses by Allen C. Guelzo, Gary W. Gallagher, Patrick N. Allitt
The Skeptic's Guide to American History by Mark A. Stoler, The Great Courses
Turning Points in American History by Edward T. O'Donnell, The Great Courses
Turning Points in Modern History by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses

Brief by Joseph McCormack
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law by Eric Berger, The Great Courses
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker