Every year the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base takes about 200 Air Force majors and lieutenant colonels and runs then through a ten-month course. The officers are all hot numbers, exceptional squadron commanders and the like who must learn to think lawyer thoughts. The course takes foreign students as well as Germans, Indonesians, and in these changing times, even Russians. The course work is incredibly heavy, averaging 250 pages of reading a night, in addition to papers, briefings, and other assignments. The course is advanced not only in its thinking but also in its methods. Each student is issued a laptop computer for use in the course, and is expected to use it for much of the course work. The students' final thesis is not a paper. They turn in an IBM Toolbook application on the assigned topic. Here is the reading list for the 1994 academic year. I hear the 1995 list will be much the same, only longer. How many have you read? I won't tell how many I've read, but it's a humbling experience. ACSC AY94 Book List 1 Agawa, H., The Reluctant Admiral Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy 2 Berquist, Ronald, Role of Airpower in the Iraq-Iran War 3 Brodie, Bernard, Strategy in the Missile Age 4 Buell, The Quiet Warrior 5 Byham, William & Cox, Zapp, The Lightening of Empowerment 6 Campen, (cd), The First Information War 7 Clausewitz On War 8 Clodfelter, Mark, Limits of Airpower 9 Doughty, Robert, The Breaking Point 10 Douhet, Command of the Air 11 Dower, War Without Mercy 12 Dupuy, T.N., A Genius For War 13 Engels, Donald W., Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army 14 Forester C. S., The General 15 Fuller, J.F.C-, Grant and Lee 16 Fuller, J.F.C., The Generalship of Alexander the Great 17 Fuller, J.F.C., Miliary History of the Western World (3 volumes) 18 Futrel, Robert, USAF in Korea 19 Gander, Affording Defense 20 Gelb and Betts, The Irony of Vietnam 21 Gilder, George, Microcosm 22 Gleick, James, Chaos Making a New Science 23 Hallion, Richard, Storm Over Iraq 24 Hanle, Donald J., Terrorism The Newest Face of Warfare 25 Hansell, The Air Plan That Defeated Hitler 26 Hansell, The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan 27 Hart, Liddell, The Real War 28 Hart, Liddell Strategy 29 Hastings, Max, Battle for the Falklands 30 Hastings, Max, The Korean War 31 Heinlein, Robert, Starship Troopers 32 Holley, L, Ideas and Weapons 33 House, Toward Combined Arms 34 Howard, Michael, British Intelligence in WWII Vol V Strategic Deception 35 Huntington, S., The Soldier and the State 36 Ikle, Fred, Every War Must End 37 Kenney George C., General Kenney Reports 38 Kent, Roberts, Greenfield, Command Decisions 39 Mainger, Henry, A World Restored: Metternich Castlereagh and the Problem of Peace 1812-22 40 Luttwak, Edward, Coup D E'tat 41 Luttwak. Edvard, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire 42 Machiaveli, The Prince 43 Manchester, W.M, American Caesar 44 Manstein, Erich Von, Lost Victories 45 Markman, Roberta H., 10 Steps in Writing Research Papers 46 McFarland & Newton, To Command the Sky. The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944 47 McNeil, Daniel & Freibagm Paul, Fuzzy Logic The Discovery of a Revolutionary Computer Technology and How It is Changing Our World 48 Micrzejewski, Collapse of the German War Economy 49 Miller, Edward S., War Plan Orange 50 Mitchell, William, Winged Defense 51 Momeyer, Airpower in Three Wars 52 Moorehead, Alan, Gallipoli 53 Muller, Richard, The German Air War in Russia 54 Naismith, Megatrend, 2000 55 Nalty, Bernard C., Air Power ad the Fight for Khe Sanh 56 O'Neill, Bard E., Insurgency and Terrorism 57 Paret, Peter, Makers of Modern Stratregy 58 Peters, Tom, Thriving on Chaos 59 Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations 60 Putney, Diane, Ultra and the Army Air Forces 61 Sakai, Saburo, Samurai 62 Schlight, War in South Vietnam: Years of Offensive 63 Scholtes, Peter R., The Team Handbook 64 Schwarzkopf, Norman, It Doesn't Take a Hero 65 Scabury, Paul, War Ends ad Means 66 Sharpe, Strategy for Defeat 67 Shulsky, Abram, Silent Warfare. Understanding the World of Intelligence 68 Sigal, Leon V., Fighting to a Finish. the Pofitics of War Termination in the United Stater and Japam 1945 69 Small, Melvin & Slinger, J. David, International War 70 Smith, Perry, Taking Charge. A Practical Guide for Leaders 71 Spanier, John, Games Nations Play 72 Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich 73 Strunk & White, The Elements of Style 74 Summers, Harry, On Strategy 75 Summers, Harry, On Strategy II: Critical Analysis of the Gulf War 76 Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Griffith 1963) 77 Taylor, Robert and Roscribach, William, Military Leadership. In Pursuit of Excellence 78 Thucydides, The Peleponnerian Wars 79 Tilford, Setup 80 Tunner, Over the Hump 81 Van Creveld, Supplying War 82 Warden John A., The Air Campaigm Planning for Combat 83 Watts, Foundations of US Air Doctrine 84 Weigley, Russel, The American Way of War BT Back to The Naval Sitrep #1 Table of Contents Back to Naval Sitrep List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1994 by Larry Bond and Clash of Arms. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history and related articles are available at http://www.magweb.com