Reading

We have curated, and continue to add to this growing list of recommended reading.  

If you have suggestions of title to add to the list, please send them our way! 

Biographies: 

• Five Presidents - The autobiography of Clint Hill (Secret Service for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford). 

• Civilian Warriors - Erik Prince

• Fearless - Eric Blehm

• Lest We Forget - Leo Jenkins

• The Right Kind of Crazy - Clint Emerson

• Chesty: The Story of Lt Gen Lewis Puller, USMC - Jon Hoffman

• The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution - by John Oller

• Words for Warriors - Col. Ralph Puckett

• Ranger: A Soldier's Life - Col. Ralph Puckett

Historical (GWOT): 

• The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons - Anthony Cordesman

• Red Platoon - Clinton Romesha

• The Killing School - Brandon Webb

• Outlaw Platoon - Sean Parnell & John Bruning

• The Accidental Guerrilla - David Kilcullen

• Out of the Mountains David Kilcullen

• Counterinsurgency - David Kilcullen

• Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars - by Alan C. Mack

• Transforming US Intelligence for Irregular War: Task Force 714 in Iraq - by Richard H. Shultz Jr.

• Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda - by Sean Naylor

Historical (Vietnam Era): 

• Inside the Crosshairs - Col. Michael Lee Lanning

• Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife - John Nagal

• The Sniper - Jim Lindsay

Historical (1790-WWII): 

• An  Army at Dawn (Book 1) -  By Rick Atkinson

• The Day of the Battle (Book 2)  -  By Rick Atkinson

• The Guns at Last Light (Book 3) -  By Rick Atkinson

• 40 Thieves of Saipan - Joseph Tachovsky

• Sniping in France 1914-18 - Maj. Hesketh-Prichard

Historical (Revolutionary War and Early American Formation Era): 

• Kings Mountain - Philip Thomas Tucker

• John Adams - David McCullough

• The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams - Stacy Schiff

• The Swamp Fox - John Oller

• Igniting the American Revolution (1773-1775) - Derek Beck

• Smuggler Nation - Peter Andreas

Historical (Other): 

• Afghan Guerilla Warfare : Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet Afghan War - Ali Ahmad Jalali

• Terror at Beslan - John Giduck

• Hunting the Jackal - Billy Waugh, Tim Keown

• One Perfect Op: An Insider's Account of the Navy Seal Special Warfare Teams - by Dennis Chalker and Kevin Dockery

• Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command - by Sean Naylor

Skills: 

• Anti-Tracking - David Diaz 

• Visual Mantracking for Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue - Fernando Moreira

• Sniper: Sniper Skills from the World's Elite Forces - Martin Dougherty

• Touching the Dragon - James Hatch & Christian D'Andrea

• The Art of Instruction -  Michael Seeklander  

• Practical Shooter's Guide - Marcus Blanchard

• Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• Staring at the Crosshairs - Derrick Bartlett

• An Illustrated Guide to Tactical Diagraming - Charles Heal

• The Memory Book - Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas

• US Army Small Unit Tactics - Paul LeFavor

• Urban Rifle - Clint Smith

• Green Eyes, Black Rifles - Kyle Lamb

• 100+ Sniper Excercises - Eduardo Abril de Fontcuberta

Other Nonfiction: 

• The Republic - Plato

• Rise and Kill First - Ronen Bergman

• Words for Warriors - Col Ralph Puckett

• 5000 Days of War - Yousuf Sediq

• On War -  Gen. Carl von Clausewitz  

• Crisis of Command - Stuart Scheller

• Unrestricted Warfare - Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui

• Modeling Rapidly Composable, Heterogeneous, and Fractionated Forces - Timothy Gulden,  Jonathan Lamb , Jeff Hagen, and Nicholas O'Donoughue

• Distributed Kill Chains - Nicholas O'Donoughue, Samantha McBirney, and Brian Persons

• Freedom Flight - Lanny Bassham

• Fry the Brain - John West

• And Then They Prayed - Congressman Barry Loudermilk 

• On Killing - Dave Grossman

• The art of War - Sun Tsu

• The Dichotomy of Leadership - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - Yeonmi Park

• While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America - Yeonmi Park

• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - Laurence Gonzales