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Below are critical evaluations of books relevant to Marine Corps strategy, history, and leadership.

Strategy

Airpower in Small Wars by James S. Corum & Wray R. Johnson — Reviewed by Maj Charles D. Melson, USMC(Ret)
Amphibious Assault Falklands by Michael Clapp & Ewen Southby-Tailyour — Reviewed by LtCol Leonard A. Blasiol
The Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog — Reviewed by Eric M. Hammel
The Art of War by Sun Tzu translated by BGen S. B. Griffith, USMC(Ret)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu translated by Ralph D. Sawyer AND translated by J. H. Huang AND The Seven Classics of Ancient China translated by Ralph D. Sawyer — Reviewed by Col Bruce M. Mac Laren, USMC(Ret)
At the Water’s Edge by Theodore L. Gatchel — Reviewed by LtCol Kenneth W. Estes, USMC(Ret)
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler
Command in War by Martin Van Creveld — Reviewed by LtGen B. E. Trainor, USMC(Ret)
Commander of the Faithful by John W. Kiser — Reviewed by Jim Gant
Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula
Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula — Reviewed by LCDR Joseph D. Haines, MC, USN
Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula — Reviewed by Col Thomas X. Hammes, USMC(Ret)
Decoding Clausewitz by Jon Tetsuro Sumida — Reviewed by LtCol J. Alex Vohr
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger — Reviewed by Maj F. G. Hoffman, USMCR
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card — Released through DivPA
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card — Reviewed by 1stLt Jordan A. Blashek & Cpl John S. Galloup
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card — Reviewed by Maj Jonathan Burgess
Guardians of Empire by Brian M. Linn — Reviewed by Leo J. Daughterty III
Joint Publication 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations – USMC — Reviewed by Maj James E. McGinley
Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife by John A. Nagl — Reviewed by Capt Scott A. Cuomo
Marine Corps Operating Concepts for a Changing Security Environment – USMC — Reviewed by Maj Pierre G. Hollis
Marine Corps Planning Process – USMC — Reviewed by LtCol Mark W. Elfers
Masters of Chaos by Linda Robinson — Reviewed by LtCol Charles L. Armstrong, USMC(Ret)
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period edited by Williamson Murray & Allan R. Millett — Reviewed by LtCol F. G. Hoffman, USMCR
Military Misfortunes by Eliot A. Cohen & John Gooch — Reviewed by Maj E. Gray Payne, USMCR
On War by Carl von Clausewitz — Reviewed by Maj Scott Helminski
A Question of Command by Mark Moyar — Reviewed by Robert A. Hall
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China translated by Ralph D. Sawyer with Mei-chun Sawyer — Reviewed by Matthew T. Robinson
Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare by Maurice Matloff & Edwin M. Snell — Reviewed by Col S. R. Shaw
Strategy by B. H. Liddell Hart — Reviewed by LtCol Brooke Nihart
Strategy by B. H. Liddell Hart — Reviewed by Col H. D. Pratt
Strategy and Command by Louis Morton AND Triumph in the Philippines by Robert R. Smith
A Tentative Manual for Countering Irregular Threats AND Small Unit Leader’s Guide to Counterinsurgency – USMC — Reviewed by Concepts and Plans Division, MCWL
Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May — Reviewed by Robert D. Steele

Naval Strategy

Command Missions by LtGen L. K. Truscott, Jr. — Reviewed by Col C. G. Reinhardt
The Fast Carriers by Clark G. Reynolds — Reviewed by LtCol Paul R. Hines
Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations by CAPT Wayne Hughes, Jr., USN(Ret) & RADM Robbert Girrier, USN(Ret) — Reviewed by Capts M. S. Hanks & M. P. Magyar
Neptunes Inferno by James D. Hornfischer AND Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations by CAPT Wayne Hughes, Jr., USN(Ret) & RADM Robbert Girrier, USN(Ret) — Reviewed by LtCol John Berry, USMC(Ret)
Sea Power by E. B. Potter — Reviewed by Maj Kenneth W. Estes
The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War by J. A. Isely & P. A. Crowl — Reviewed by Col J. C. Studt

Air Strategy

The Air Campaign by John A. Warden III — Reviewed by MajGen John R. Dailey AND Maj James P. Etter
Command of the Air by Giulio Douhet — Reviewed by Col Joseph A. Mitchell
The Limits of Airpower by Mark Clodfelter — Reviewed by Col S. N. Collins, Jr. USMCR(Ret)

Leadership

Command Missions by LtGen L. K. Truscott, Jr. — Reviewed by Col C. G. Reinhardt
FMFM 1-0, Leading Marines – USMC — Reviewed by Col Michael D. Wyly, USMC(Ret)
Leading Change by John P. Kotter — Reviewed by Gary Horne & LtCol F. G. Hoffman, USMCR
The Mask of Command by John Keegan — Reviewed by Capt Charles P. Neimeyer
Rules & Tools for Leaders by Perry M. Smith — Reviewed by Capt James F. Murphy, USMCR
Sources of Power by Gary Klein — Reviewed by LtCol F. G. Hoffman, USMCR
Taking Charge by Perry M. Smith introduction by James Bond Stockdale — Reviewed by Col Donald J. Myers
To Change an Army by Harold R. Winton — Reviewed by Capt Bruce I. Gudmundsson, USMCR

General Knowledge

The Armed Forces Officer by S. L. A. Marshall — Reviewed by LtCol G. D. Batcheller
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins — Reviewed by Col(sel) N. F. Vaux, DSO, RM
Civil Affairs by Harry L. Coles & Albert K. Weinberg
The Enlightened Soldier by Charles Edward White — Reviewed by Capt Robert N. Ellithorpe
First to Fight by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret) — Reviewed by COL Chris Field, Australian Army
First to Fight by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret) –Reviewed by Capt G. W. Myers
First to Fight by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret) — Reviewed by Maj Scott A. Whipple
First to Fight by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret) — Reviewed by Col J. E. Greenwood, USMC(Ret) AND Tarawa by Charles T. Gregg — Reviewed by MajGen Michael P. Ryan
For the Common Defense by Allan R. Millett & Peter Maslowski — Reviewed by George W. Baer
Modern Military Dictionary. English/Arabic. Arabic/English by Maher S. Kayyali — Reviewed by W. V. H. White
No Picnic by Julian Thompson — Reviewed by LtGen Bernard E. Trainor
With Sword and Shield by Warren W. Hassler, Jr. — Reviewed by Maj Kenneth W. Estes

MCDPs

The MCDPs – USMC
MCDP 1, Warfighting – USMC
MCDP 1, Warfighting – USMC — Reviewed by Capt Brandon Bocian
MCDP 1, Warfighting – USMC — Reviewed by 2ndLt Paige E. Dillard
MCDP 1, Warfighting – USMC — Reviewed by Maj Adam T. Strickland
MCDP 1-0, Marine Corps Operations – USMC — Reviewed by LtCol John A. Bass, USMC(Ret)
MCDP 1-2, Campaigning AND MCDP 1-3, Tactics AND MCDP 5, Planning – USMC
MCDP 2, Intelligence – USMC
MCDP 4, Logistics – USMC

Revolutionary War

George Washington’s Opponents edited by George A. Billias — Reviewed by Dr. R. W. Daly, USNA
Saratoga by Richard M. Ketchum — Reviewed by LtCol Horace S. Mazet, USMCR(Ret)
The Winter Soldiers by Richard M. Ketchum — Reviewed by LtCol C. E. Marean Sr., USMCR

Civil War

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson — Reviewed by LtCol J. David Phillips, USMC(Ret)
Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears — Reviewed by Col Daniel C. O’Brien
Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears — Reviewed by Paul Kallina

World War 1

The Dynamics of Doctrine by Capt Timothy T. Lupfer, USA — Reviewed by Prof Williamson Murray

World War 2

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey — Reviewed by Paul Turnan
A Bias for Action by Russel H. S. Stolfi — Reviewed by Capt John R. Studt
The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign by John A. English — Reviewed by LtCol Donald F. Bittner, USMCR(Ret)
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower — Reviewed by J. A. Donovan, Jr.
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower — Reviewed by RPMacG
Defeat into Victory by Field Marshal Sir William Slim — Reviewed by LtCol L. E. Hudgins, Jr.
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector — Reviewed by Bob Jordan
Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald H. Spector –Reviewed by Brian M. Linn
The Fall of the Philippines by Louis Morton — Reviewed by Maj G. P. Averill
In the Ruins of Empire by Ronald H. Spector — Reviewed by Robert B. Loring
The Invasion of France and Germany by Samuel Eliot Morison — Reviewed by Col R. D. Heinl, Jr.
Leyte by RADM Samuel Eliot Morison, USNR(Ret) — Reviewed by Col R. D. Heinl, Jr.
New Guinea and the Marianas by Samuel Eliot Morison — Reviewed by LtCol V. J. Croizat
Northwest Africa by George F. Howe
Okinawa by Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler & John Stevens
Pacific Blitzkrieg by Sharon Tosi Lacey — Reviewed by Dr. John W. (Bill) Gordon
The Rising Sun in the Pacific by Samuel Eliot Morison — Reviewed by RPMacG
Sicily-Salerno-Anzio by RADM S. E. Morison — Reviewed by LtCol R. D. Heinl, Jr.
The Two Ocean War by Samuel E. Morison — Reviewed by LtCol Merrill L. Bartlett, USMC(Ret)
War Plan Orange by Edward S. Miller — Reviewed by Maj Robert E. Schmidle

Korea

Vietnam

The Army and Vietnam by Maj Andrew F. Krepinevich, USA — Reviewed by Maj Thomas X. Hammes
A Better War by Lewis Sorley — Reviewed by Robert Previdi
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan — Reviewed by Maj Edward F. Palm
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan — Reviewed by Jack Shulimson
The Co-Vans by John Grider Miller — Reviewed by R. R. Keene
Dereliction of Duty by H. R. McMaster — Reviewed by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret)
Fields of Fire by James Webb — Reviewed by Maj Terrence P. Murray
In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark — Reviewed by LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC(Ret)
Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley — Reviewed by Col Kenneth D. Jordan, USMC(Ret)
This Time We Win by James S. Robbins — Reviewed by Robert B. Loring
Triumph Forsaken by Mark Moyar — Reviewed by Robert A. Hall
Triumph Forsaken by Mark Moyar — Reviewed by Charles Melson
U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Jack Shulimson, LtCol Leonard A. Blasiol, USMC, Charles R. Smith & Capt David A. Dawson, USMC — Reviewed by Leo J. Daugherty III
U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Jack Shulimson, LtCol Leonard A. Blasiol, USMC, Charles R. Smith & Capt David A. Dawson, USMC — Reviewed by MCG, Staff
Vietnam at War by LtGen Phillip B. Davidson, USA(Ret) — Reviewed by LtCol Merrill L Bartlett, USMC(Ret)
War Comes to Long An by Jeffrey Race — Reviewed by Maj M. N. Carter

Gulf War

The Generals’ War by Michael R. Gordon & LtGen Bernard E. Trainor, USMC(Ret) — Reviewed by MajGen Harry W. Jenkins, Jr., USMC(Ret)
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991 — Reviewed by Robert T. Foley

Afghanistan

The Wrong War by Bing West — Reviewed by Colin M. Colbourn
The Wrong War by Bing West — Reviewed by Col T. X. Hammes, USMC(Ret)

Iraq

Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon & Gen Bernard E. Trainor — Reviewed by MajGen Harry W. Jenkins, USMC(Ret)

Today’s Marines

The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Lester W. Grau — Reviewed by Capt Robert C. Fulford
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by Lester W. Grau AND The Soviet-Afghan War by Lester W. Grau and Michael A. Gress — Reviewed by Col Drew A. Bennett
Cyber War by Richard A. Clarke & Robert K. Knake — Reviewed by Maj Chris Buckham
Illicit by Moisés Naim — Reviewed by Kevin Johnston
Insurgency and Terrorism by Bard E. O’Neill — Reviewed by Capt James R. Finley
Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias by Richard H. Shultz & Andrea J. Dew — Reviewed by LtCol Charles L. Armstrong, USMC(Ret)
Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America’s New Way of War by Norman Friedman — Reviewed by LtCol F. G. Hoffman, USMCR(Ret)
Victory on the Potomac by James R. Locher III — Reviewed by LtCol F. G. Hoffman, USMCR