Что читают американские военные?

ir_ingr — 24.02.2012 ***

В жизни мне не один раз доводилось общаться с американскими офицерами. Всегда лично меня поражала их начитанность. По уровню эрудиции какой-нибудь их скромный армейский лейтенант превосходил любого нашего интеллектуального гуру Интернета или не уступал общепризнанным светочам интеллигенции и так называемой околокультурной полубогемы.  



Отдельной темой идет просто отличное дотошное знание американскими военными античной литературы. Об этом я уже писал. В разговорах складывалось впечатление, что подсознательно или осознанно они считают, что Римская Империя сегодня - это они. Во всех планах. В том числе и цивилизаторских.



О культуре их чтения и об одном списке у меня был короткий пост - http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/799176.html



А вот на днях Начальник штаба сухопутных войск США и член Объединённого комитета начальников штабов США генерал Рэймонд Т. Одиерно представил свой список рекомендуемой военнослужащим США литературы. Этот список является дополнительным к тем книгам, которые уже входят в обязательные программы. Список не является окончательным, а лишь дает некие общие ориентиры для личного развития военнослужащих. 



Не думаю, что командир 4-й пехотной дивизии в Ираке все эти книги от и до прочитал лично, скорее всего над списком поработали товарищи-пропагандисты, но всё же список хотя бы дает общее представление о круге чтения и культуре мысли наших "заклятых друзей".

По крайней мере, может быть, хоть кому-то будет интересно ознакомиться, а мне в архив.



Список разбит на 4 части:

The Army Profession

- Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Stephen E. Ambrose.
- Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars. Matthew Moten, editor.
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Robert Coram.
- Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901–1940, and the Consequences for World War II. Jörg Muth.
- Constitution of the United States
- Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. H.R. McMaster.
- Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life. Carlo D’Este.
- The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. John Keegan.
- The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story. Trent Angers.
- Grey Eminence: Fox Conner and the Art of Mentorship. Edward Cox.
- Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II through Iraq. John C. McManus.
- Lincoln and His Generals. Thomas Harry Williams.
- A Message to Garcia. Fra Elbert Hubbard.
- Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership. Edgar F. Puryear, Jr.
- Once an Eagle. Anton Myrer.
- Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace. Mark Perry.
- Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant.
- The Profession of Arms. General Sir John Hackett.
- Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime. Eliot A. Cohen.
- 22 ARMY I March 2012The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education. Craig M. Mullaney.

The Force of Decisive Action

- 1776. David G. McCullough.
- The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I. Mark E. Grotelueschen.
- American Military History, Volume II: The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917–2008. Richard W. Stewart, general editor.
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy. Rick Atkinson.
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. James M. McPherson.
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Neil Sheehan.
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare. Geoffrey Parker, editor.
- East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950. Roy E. Appleman.
- Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda. John Keegan.
- The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War. Michael Shaara.
- The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War. Robert B. Strassler, editor.
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Dave Grossman.
- A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3). Bruce Catton.
- Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective. Dave R. Palmer.
- Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Martin L. Van Creveld.
- This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History. T. R. Fehrenbach.
- Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small- Unit Action in Iraq, 2004–2007. Jon T.Hoffman, editor.
- Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights. Douglas A. Macgregor.
- The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987–December 1989. Lawrence A. Yates.
- We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: Ia Drang — the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.

Broadening Leaders

- The Age of the Unthinkable: Why The New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It. Joshua Cooper Ramo.
- Blowback, 2nd Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. Chalmers Johnson.
- Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign. Sherard Cowper-Coles.
- A Choice of Enemies: America Con- fronts the Middle East. Lawrence Freedman.
- Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It. James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.
- Discourses on Livy. Niccolò Machiavelli.
- The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq. Zuhair al-Jezairy.
- The Dynamics of Military Revolu- tion, 1300–2050. MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, editors.
- Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC. Amy Zegart.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ernest Hemingway.
- How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. Dov Seidman.
- The Instigators: How A Small Band of Activists Risked Their Lives and Helped Bring Down The Government of Egypt. David Wolman.
- Leading Change. John P. Kotter.
- Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, editors.
- The Masks of War: American Mili- tary Styles in Strategy and Analysis. Carl H. Builder.
- The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. Evgeny Morozov.
- Rethinking the Principles of War. Anthony D. McIvor.
- The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom.
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. Chip and Dan Heath. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers. Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May.
- Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. P.W. Singer.

The Strategic Environment

- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. Niall Ferguson.
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. Michael Lewis.
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Samuel P. Huntington.
- Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid.
- The Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul. Michael Reid.
- The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Edward N. Luttwak.
- A History of Modern Iran. Ervand Abrahamian.
- Kevlar Legions: A History of Army Transformation 1989–2005. John Sloan Brown.
- Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror. Mary Habeck.
- The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. Dilip Hiro.
- Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Robert D. Kaplan.
- The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe. Greg Behrman.
- My Life with the Taliban. Abdul Salam Zaeef.
- On China. Henry A. Kissinger.
- Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War. James Kitfield.
- The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. Daniel Yergin.
- That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.
- The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. Rupert Smith.
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Thomas L. Friedman.
- A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812–1822. Henry A. Kissinger.

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