Robert Cassidy’s Reading List
The SWJ asked Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy if he would be so kind as to share his professional reading list with our community. He agreed and we are pleased to post it here, as well as a listing of Cassidy’s publications.
Robert Cassidy is a U.S. Army officer. He is a member of the Royal United Services Institute and a fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. He has a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Diplome d’ Étude Supérieure de Défense from the French Joint Defense College. He is the author of Peacekeeping in the Abyss: British and American Peacekeeping Doctrine and Practice after the Cold War and Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War.
His articles on small wars and military culture have appeared in Parameters, the RUSI Journal, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Military Review, the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, and Defense Concepts.
Warrior Ethos, War, and Strategy
Gates of Fire, Stephen Pressfield
Once an Eagle, Anton Myrer
Warrior Politics, Robert Kaplan
Profession of Arms, Sir John Winthrop Hackett
The Soldier and the State, Samuel J. Huntington
Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlin
The American Way of War, Russell F. Weigley
War Made New, Max Boot
A History of Warfare, John Keegan
War in European History, Michael Howard
Art of War, Sun Tzu
Strategy, B.H. Liddel Hart
America’s First Battles, Charles E. Heller and William A. Stoft
Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger
The Shield of Achilles, Philip Bobbitt
Long War and Counterinsurgency
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
Ghost Wars, Stephen Coll
Inside Al Qaeda, Rohan Gunaratna
Blood from Stones, Douglas Farah
Insurgents, Terrorists, and Militias, R. Shultz And Andrea Dew
War for Muslim Minds, Giles Keppel
The Assassins’ Gate, George Packer
Cradle of Conflict, Michael Knights
Imperial Grunts, Robert Kaplan
The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot
The Sling and the Stone, Thomas X. Hammes
War of the Flea, Robert Taber
War in the Shadows, Robert Asprey
On Guerrilla Warfare, Mao Tse-Tung
America and Guerrilla Warfare, Anthony James Joes
U.S. Army Coin and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976, Andy Birtle
Post–Vietnam to Long War
The Nightingale’s Song, Robert Timberg
The Prodigal Soldiers, James Kitfield
Savage Peace, Dan Bolger
Blackhawk Down, Mark Bowden
Crusade, Rick Atkinson
Vietnam
Summons of the Trumpet, Dave Palmer
Fields of Fire, James Webb
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, H. Moore And J. Galloway
The Army and Vietnam, Andrew Krepinevich
A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
Dereliction of Duty, H.R. Mcmaster
A Better War, Lewis Sorley
The Long Gray Line, Rick Atkinson
Korea, Indochina, and Algeria
This Kind of War, T.R. Fehrenbach
The Centurions, Jean Larteguy
Street Without Joy, Bernard Fall
The Two Vietnams, Bernard Fall
A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Horne
World Wars
Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, William Shirer
An Army at Dawn, Rick Atkinson
A Bridge Too Far, Cornelius Ryan
Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose
History of The Second World War, John Keegan
Defeat into Victory, William Slim
Eagle Against the Sun, Ronald Specter
Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
The General, C.S. Forrester
Philippine War, Boer War, and Sudan
The Philippine War, 1899-1902, Brian Mccallister Linn
The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham
The River War, Winston Churchill
Civil War and Indian Wars
A Stillness at Appomatox, Bruce Catton
Battle Cry of Freedom, James Mcpherson
Frontiersmen In Blue, Robert Utley
Frontier Regulars, Robert Utley
Revolutionary War
The War for America, Piers Macksey
The War of American Independence, Don Higginbotham
1776, David Mccullough
Other
Carnage and Culture, Victor David Hanson
The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman
The Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan
Doctrine
The Evolution of Us Tactical Doctrine 1946-1976, Robert Doughty
FM 1, The Army
FM 3-0, Operations
FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations
Publications Authored by Robert M. Cassidy
“Regular and Irregular Indigenous Forces for a Long Irregular War.” RUSI Journal 152 (February 2007): 42-47.
“A Paradigm Lost.” Defense Concepts 1 (Fall 2006): 58-74.
“The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency.” Parameters 36 (Spring 2006): 47-62.
Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.
“Feeding Bread to the Luddites: the Radical Fundamentalist Islamic Revolution in Guerrilla Warfare.” Small Wars and Insurgencies 16 (December 2005): 334-59.
“The British Army and Counterinsurgency: The Salience of Military Culture.” Military Review 85 (May-June 2005): 53-59.
“The U.S. Military and the Global Insurgency: On Turning Victory into Success: Military Operations after the Campaign“. ed. Brian M. De Toy. Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command/CSI, 2004.
“Winning the War of the Flea: Lessons from Guerrilla Warfare.” Military Review 84 (September-October 2004): 41-46.
“Back to the Street without Joy.” Parameters 34 (Summer 2004): 73-83.
Peacekeeping in the Abyss: British and American Doctrine and Practice after the Cold War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
“Prophets or Praetorians? The Uptonian Paradox and the Powell Corollary.” Parameters 33 (Autumn 2003): 130-143.
“Renaissance of the Attack Helicopter in the Close Fight.” Military Review 83 (July-August 2003): 38-45.
Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya: Military Strategic Culture and the Paradoxes of Asymmetric Conflict. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2003.
“Why Great Powers Fight Small Wars Badly.” Military Review 82 (September-October 2002): 41-53.
“Sovereignty versus the Chimera of Armed Humanitarian Intervention.” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 21 (Summer-Fall 1997): 47-63.
SWJ note: Publication titles not located online in bold.
