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Higher Command and Staff Course 2011 – Reading List (Books and Doctrine)
To note: 1. The recommended reading reading for HCSC consists consists of 3 elements, elements, namely Books, Doctrine and Articles. Articles. The latter are issued issued in the day preceding each phase and are constituted from the very best of contemporary, timeless or alternative thinking. 2. A leading list of 8 books represents represents the essential texts that need to be read and understood by all. all. These will be sent to students before the course. Most are permanent issue. 3. A further selection will be issued on arrival and are highly likely to be referred to either on course or as a classic text in quotation. Some are permanent issue. 4. A few others books books are also highly highly recommended and will be made available available for easy referral referral as required. These include the Advanced Command and Staff Course papers from 2009 that were graded within the top 10% (‘learning from our juniors’). Naturally, specific enquiries for monographs, case studies and research papers will draw upon the full resources of the JSCSC library.
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Classical Thought & Principles of War (HLTO 1) Thought , (London: Frank Cass, 1996) Michael I Handel, Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought , Wisdom (London: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997) T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (London:
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince & The Art of War (London: Collector’s Library, 2004) Clausewitz - A Very Short Introduction . (Oxford: University Press, 1983) Michael Howard, Clausewitz Century (Oxford: University Press, 2007) Hew Strachan, Strachan, Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War , Robert B. Strassler (Editor), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction), Richard Crawley (Translator), (Free Press; 1998) Antoine De Jomini, The Art Of War, (London: Greenhill Books, 2006) Sun Tzu, The Art of War Clausewitz, On War
Strategy, Policy & Conflict, Instruments of P ower, Utility of Force (HLTO 2 and 3) Introduction (Oxford: University Press, 2007) Wilkinson P, International Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford:
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Colin Gray, Another Bloody Century, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) Robert Kagan, The The Return of History and the End of Dreams (London, Atlantic Books, 2008) Miller D, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: University Press, 2003) ( Cambridge: University Murray, Williamson & others (ed), The making of strategy: rulers, states and war, ( Cambridge: Press, 2007) Edition (London: Meridian, 1991) B.H. Liddell Hart, Strategy: Second Revised Edition (London: John Baylis, James Wirtz, Eliot Cohen, Colin S. Gray, Strategy in the Contemporary World – An Introduction to Strategic Studies, (Oxford: University Press, 2007). World , (London: Allen Lane, 2005) Rupert Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World , Martin Van Creveld, The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq (New York: Presidio Press, 2006) Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations - order and chaos in the Twenty-first Century, (London: Atlantic Books, 2003). st Paddy Ashdown, Swords and Ploughshares – Bringing Peace to the 21 Century, (London: Orion Books, 2007) Votes – Democracy in Dangerous Places (Oxford: Places (Oxford: University Press, 2008) Paul Collier, Wars, Guns and Votes – Aid (London: Penguin, 2009) Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid (London: Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power – America and Europe in the New World Order (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2003) History (Oxford: Routledge, 2004) Jeremy Black, Rethinking Military History (Oxford: Sign up to st Lawrence Freedman, Deterrence (Themes for the 21 Century), (London: Polity Press, 2004) War , (London: Profile Books, 2001) Useful Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace and the Reinvention of War , Affairs (London: Chrysalis, 2004) Tim Benbow, The Magic Bullet? Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs (London:
Century , (Hambledon Michael Howard, Liberation or Catastrophe: Soundings in the History of the 20th Century , Continuum, 2007)
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Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, Explaining Victory in World War 2 (Vintage/Ebury, 1996) John Gooch (Ed), Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War, (London: Frank Cass, 1989) History , (London: Frank Colin Gray, Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History , Cass, 2004) Stone , (Zenith Press, 2004) Thomas Hammes, The Sling and the Stone , Warfare (Washington: Potomac Books, 2009) Paul Rexton Kan, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare (Washington:
Media (HLTO 4) Swans (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford Nik Gowing, Skyful of Lies and Black Swans (Reuters University, 2009)
Components of Fighting Power (HTLO 5) History (JDCC 2005). Dr Stuart Griffin, Joint Operations - A Short History (JDCC War , (US: Free Press, Colin S Gray, The Leverage of Sea Power: The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War , 1992) st Geoffrey Till (Ed), Seapower: A Guide for the 21 Century , (London: Frank Cass, 2003) Keegan, John The Face of Battle (London: Pimlico Military Classics, 2004) Brian Holden Reid (ed), Military Power: Land Warfare In Theory And Practice , (London: Frank Cass, 1997) Martin van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics From Wallenstein To Patton (Cambridge: University Press, 1977) 1939-1945 , (London: John Terraine, The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945 , Hodder and Stoughton, 1985) Combat , (Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1989) John A Warden, The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat ,
Higher Command (HLTO 6) Eliot Cohen, Cohen, Supreme Command: soldiers, statesmen and leadership in wartime , (London: Free Press, 2003) Keegan, John, The Mask of Command, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987)
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Gary Sheffield and Geoffrey Till, The Challenges of High Command, The British Experience , (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003) War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke , edited by Alex Danchev and Dan Todman (London: Phoenix, 2002) Jonathan Riley, Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy, (Hambledon Continuum, 2007) Martin van Creveld, Command in War , (USA: Harvard University Press, 1985) 1861 , G D Sheffield (Ed), Leadership and Command - The Anglo-American Military Experience Since 1861, (London: Brassey’s (UK), 1997) H R McMasters, Dereliction of Duty , (London: Harper Collins, 1998) Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, (London: John Murray, 1996)
Lest We Forget (HLTO 6) Stringbag (London: Cassell, 2002) Charles Lamb, War in a Stringbag (London: Sea (London: The Book Club, 2002) Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea (London: George Macdonald Fraser, Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma (London: HarperCollins, 1992) Wellum, Geoffrey, First light (London: Penguin, 2003)
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Norman Dixon, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence , (London: Pimlico, 1976)
Laws and Ethics (HTLO 6) Wars (New York: Perseus, 1977) Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New
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War (Oxford: Ashgate, 2006) Sorabji/Rodin, The Ethics of War (Oxford: Nigel Biggar, Burying the Past: making peace and doing justice after civil conflict (Georgetown University Press, 2003)
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