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The 2009 Chief of Staff reading list will provide Airmen of all ranks a guide to further their education and expertise. The professional reading list enhances warrior ethos, and is divided into three areas: Mission, Doctrine and Profession; Our Nation and World; and Military History.

Mission, Doctrine, Profession

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice - David Galula

Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to the Modern National Security Processes and Problems - Dennis M. Drew and
Donald M. Snow
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Modern Strategy - by Colin S. Gray

Thinking about America's Defense: An Analytical Memoir - Glenn A. Kent

Our Nation and World

Afghanistan: A Short History of its People and Politics - Martin Ewans

Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win - Jeffrey Record

Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-First Century - Alexander Lennon

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda - Sean Naylor

Military History

American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day - Robert Coram

Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945 - David E. Johnson

One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam - Timothy Castle

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power - Max Boot

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Background

General Ronald Fogleman created the CSAF Professional Reading Program in 1996 to develop a common frame of reference among Air Force members -- officers, enlisted, and civilians -- to help each of us become better, more effective advocates of air and space power. Each CSAF since then has enhanced and continued the Professional Reading Program.

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