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The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf provides recommended reading lists and book reviews. The reviews give a synopsis of the book and lessons learned. Submissions are welcome and are a great place for junior leaders and new authors to make a start.

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Reading Lists and Resources

Combat Commander’s Reading List

Busy Platoon Commander’s Reading List

Junior Leader Recommended Reading

Why Science Fiction is Good for PME

Marine Corps Reading Program

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Book Reviews

Book Review – The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, by Christian Brose

Dylan Nigh February 12, 2022

Book Review – Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century by Anthony King

Lauren Hutchinson December 16, 2021

Book Review – Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace: Religious Leader Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments, by S. K. Moore

Darren Cronshaw December 2, 2021

Book Review – ‘The Resilience Shield: SAS Resilience Techniques to Master you Mindset and Overcome Adversity,’ by Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis

Christopher Booth October 28, 2021

Book Review – The Third Force: ANGAU’s New Guinea War 1942-1946, by Alan Powell

Joshua Higgins October 26, 2021

Book Review – 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis

Nathan Woodcock October 19, 2021

Book Review – Steve Hansen: The Legacy, by Gregor Paul

Chris Bulow September 30, 2021

Book Review – Preventing Unjust War: A Catholic Argument for Selective Conscientious Objection, by Roger Bergman

Darren Cronshaw September 28, 2021

Book Review – Courage Under Fire, by Daniel Keighran VC

Brody Hannan September 26, 2021

Book Review – Stopping Military Suicides: Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths, by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor

Darren Cronshaw September 16, 2021

Book Review – Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstain to Patton by Martin Van Creveld

Joshua Smith September 12, 2021

Book Review – Invasion Rabaul, by Bruce Gamble

Chris Bulow September 9, 2021

Book Review – War and Moral Injury: A Reader, edited by Robert Emmet Meagher and Douglas A. Pryer

Darren Cronshaw September 2, 2021

Book Review – Leadership Secrets of the Australian Army, by Nicholas Jans

Darren Cronshaw August 12, 2021

Book Review – Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity away from the Battlefield, edited by Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson

Darren Cronshaw August 5, 2021

Book Review – Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein

Nathan Woodcock August 1, 2021

Book Review – Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Jack Ryan June 29, 2021

Book Review – Freedom, by Sebastian Junger

Samuel Cox May 31, 2021

Book Review – How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

Samuel Cox May 23, 2021

Book Review: Mission Command in the Israel Defence Forces by Brig General Gideon Avidor

Chris Bulow May 11, 2021

Book Review – Trust and Leadership, edited by Russell W. Glenn

Emma Watson May 6, 2021

Book Review – On Tactics by B.A. Friedman

Christopher Wooding April 28, 2021

Book Review – Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry

Chris Bulow April 20, 2021

Book Review – Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer and August Cole

Lachlan Rowe April 6, 2021

Book Review – Accessory to War, by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang

Chris Bulow March 9, 2021

Book Review – Selling Schweinfurt, by Brian Vlaun

Christopher Wooding February 7, 2021

Book Review – COSSAC, by Stephan C. Kepher

Lachlan Rowe February 2, 2021

Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

Samuel Cox November 1, 2020

Book Review – The Success Principles, by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer

Isaac Williams October 6, 2020

Book Review – 1984, by George Orwell

Chris Bulow September 29, 2020

Book Review- Digital Downfall, by Hugh Taylor

Darby Nelson September 10, 2020

Book Review – T-minus AI

Jacob Choi September 8, 2020

5 Fiction Books for Leadership Development

Matthew Ader August 18, 2020

Book Review – No time for spectators, by Martin Dempsey

Jess Ward July 16, 2020

Book Review – Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke

Darby Nelson July 2, 2020

Book Review – Marlborough, England’s Fragile Genius, by Richard Holmes

Braden Holmes June 18, 2020

Book Review – David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell

Christopher Wooding June 4, 2020

Book Review – Principles, by Ray Dalio

Jess Ward May 21, 2020

Book Review – Ultralearning, by Scott Young

Christopher Wooding May 7, 2020

Book Review – The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan

Nick Alexander March 26, 2020

Junior Leader Professional Military Education

Samuel Cox March 5, 2020

Book Review – The Great Successor, by Anna Fifield

Jacob Choi February 13, 2020

Book Review – Call Sign CHAOS

Jess Ward January 30, 2020

Book Review – Philosophy for polar explorers

Chris Bulow January 16, 2020

Book Review – Bill the Bastard by Roland Perry

Lachlan Rowe October 6, 2019

GC Partner – The Bookshelf

Grounded Curiosity September 15, 2019

Book Review – Tribe: On homecoming and belonging

Jess Ward July 7, 2019

Book Review – All you need is kill

Jess Ward June 7, 2019

Book Review – Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age

Chris Bulow May 3, 2019

Book Review – Asymmetrical Warfare

Jess Ward May 1, 2019

Book Review – Snipers at War: An Equipment and Operations History

Aaron Garnham April 29, 2019

Book Review – The Great Influenza

James Savage March 10, 2019

Book Review – Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War

Daniel Hebditch January 10, 2019

Book Review – Goodbye to all that

Nick Alexander January 3, 2019

Book Review – ANZAC’s Long Shadow: The cost of our national obsession

Jess Ward November 7, 2018

Book Review – Team of Teams

Jess Ward September 7, 2018

Book Review – Anatomy of a Campaign

James Davis September 2, 2018

Book Review – Anatomy of Failure

Jess Ward July 12, 2018

Inherent Resolve – Predeployment reading list

Mark Mankowski July 1, 2018

Book Review – In the Warlords’ Shadow

Nicholas Waugh June 3, 2018

Book Review – An Unending War

James Savage May 27, 2018

Book Review – The Future of War: A History

James Bedogni May 13, 2018

Lazy PME: Using Science Fiction Television to Enhance Professional Military Education

Tom Bittner May 6, 2018

Book Review – ANZAC Sniper

Jess Ward April 7, 2018

Book Review – Generals die in bed

Jess Ward March 8, 2018

Book Review – Pure Logistics: The science of war preparation

Jess Ward March 7, 2018

Book Review – Das Reich by Max Hastings

James Davis January 9, 2018

The Busy Platoon Commander’s Reading List

Chris Hall January 5, 2018

Book Review – British Generals in Blair’s Wars

Daniel Hebditch October 3, 2017

Book Review – The Human Face of War

Chris Hall August 3, 2017

The Humble Gardener — A Leadership Reflection on McChrystal’s Team of Teams

Steve Cotterill July 30, 2017

Book Review – Team of Teams

Brendan Robinson July 9, 2017

Learning from the Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List

Matthew Dirago July 5, 2017

Book Review – Blood Year

Nicholas Waugh June 10, 2017

Why Army Officers Should Read About Lord Horatio Nelson

James Davis January 17, 2017