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The following list of books was posted by the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations - NCC. It was undated, but was obtained from the world wide web on October 20, 2002.The list is divided into three sections: for Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Reading Lists.
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BASIC READING LIST
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich M. Remarque |
| American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 | William Manchester |
| Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes | Stephen M. Hawking |
| Command of the Seas: A Personal Story | John F. Lehman |
| Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty Three Anmerican Soldiers Who Fought It | Al Santoli, Ed. |
| Flight of the Intruder | Stephen Coontz |
| Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
| In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years | James B. & Sybil Stockdale |
| In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies | Thomas J. Peters |
| On Watch | Elmo Zumwalt |
| Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy |
| Run Silent, Run Deep | Edward L. Beach |
| The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe |
| The Russians | Hedrick Smith |
| The Sand Pebbles | Richard McKenna |
| The Source | James A. Michener |
| The United States Navy: A Two Hundred Year History | Edward L. Beach |
| Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War | Samuel E. Morison |
| War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk |
| Winds of War | Herman Wouk |
INTERMEDIATE READING LIST
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan |
| Admiral Arleigh Burke: A Biography | E.B. Potter |
| At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor | Gordon W. Prange |
| Assignment-Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace | Perry M. Smith |
| Bull Halsey: A Biography | E.B. Potter |
| Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War | Eric Larrabee |
| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture | Ruth Benedict |
| Eagle Against the Sun: An American War with Japan | Ronald H. Spector |
| Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 | David Eisenhower |
| Fate is the Hunter | Ernest K. Gann |
| First to Fight: An Island View of the U.S. Marine Corps | Victor H. Krulak |
| From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision | Paul Nitze |
| Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competetive Success | Masaaki Imai |
| Makers of Modern Strategy | Peter Paret |
| Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King | Thomas Buell |
| Miracle at Midway | Gordon W. Prange |
| Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties | Paul Johnson |
| Mountbatten | Philip Ziegler |
| Nelson, A Biography | David Walder |
| Nimitz | E.B. Potter |
| Out of the Crisis | W. Edwards Deming |
| Presidency and the Management of National Security | Carnes Lord |
| The Deming Management Syatem | Mary Walton |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| The Atlantic Campaign: World War II's Great Struggle at Sea | Dan Van Der Vat |
| The Face of Battle | John Keegan |
| The Future of Sea Power | Eric J. Grove |
| The KGB Today: The Hidden Hand | John Barron |
| The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 | William Manchester |
| The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932-1940 | William Manchester |
| The Maritime Strategy: Geopolitics and the Defense of the West | Colin S. Gray |
| The Mask of Command | John Keegan |
| The Pentagon and the Art of War: The Question of Military Reform | Edward N. Luttwak |
| The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare | John Keegan |
| The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance | Thomas Buell |
| The Rise of American Naval Forces, 1776-1918 | Harold & Margaret Sprout |
| The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II | Adam B. Ulam |
| Sea Power: A Naval History | Elmer B. Potter & Chester Nimitz |
| The Second World War | John Keegan |
| Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan | Clay Blair, Jr. |
| Today's Isms: Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism | William Ebenstein & Edwin Fogelman |
| The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 | John L. Gaddis |
| Vietnam: A History | Stanley Karnow |
ADVANCED READING LIST
| America at Century's End | James R. Schlesinger |
| The Art of War | Sun Tsu |
| Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT | John Newhouse |
| Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice | Alexander George |
| Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice | Wayne P. Hughes |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas L. Friedman |
| The Geopolitics of Superpowers | Colin S. Gray |
| How Democracies Perish | Jean-Francois Revel |
| The Influence of Seapower Upon History | Alfred T. Mahan |
| Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis | Kenneth N. Waltz |
| Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control | Joseph C. Wylie |
| Origins of the Maratime Strategy: American Naval Strategy in the First Postwar Decade | Michael A. Palmer |
| On War | Carl von Clausewitz |
| Power and Change: The Administrative History of the Office of the CNO, 1946-1986 | Thomas C. Hone |
| Seapower and Strategy | Colin S. Gray & Roger Barnett |
| The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations | Samuel P. Huntington |
| Some Principles of Maratime Strategy | Julian S. Corbett |
| Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retrospect | Ulysses Sharp |
| Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace | Edward N. Luttwak |
| The Ultra Secret | F.W. Winterbotham |
| U.S. Defence Policy in an Era of Constrained Resources | Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. & Richard H. Schultz |
| The U.S. Navy: The View from the Mid-1990's | James L. George |
| War and Politics | Bernard Brodie |
| The White House Years | Henry Kissinger |
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