USSOCOM Commander’s Reading List 2017

USSOCOM Commander’s Reading List 2017

Joint Special Operations University Library

Leadership in Complexity

• Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer (2006)
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders, by L. David Marquet (2013)
• Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated, by Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman (2014)

Adapting to Uncertainty

• Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2014)
• Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease, by Rafe Sagarin (2012)

Disruptive Technology

• Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War, P.W. Singer and August Cole (2016)
• 3D Printing Will Rock the World, by John Hornick (2015)
• The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan (2015)

Perspectives and Emergence

• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, by Tim Marshall (2016)
• Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, by Peter Pomerantsev (2015)
• Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, by Walter Laqueur (2015)
• The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, by Michael Pillsbury (2016)
• The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, by Deborah Brautigam (2011)
• A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, by Michael Axworthy (2016)
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (2010)
• Special Operations from a Small State Perspective: Future Security Challenges, New Security Challenges, by Gunilla Eriksson and Ulrica Pettersson, editors (2017)