1 November 2005
To my fellow Airmen, 

Our Air Force has an incredible heritage...a heritage built on courage, valor, brilliance, and perseverance. The new CSAF reading list captures this rich history. Frankly, the stories will not only fill you with pride, but they are also intense and compelling. Many of the great Airmen of the past, including Billy Mitchell and Hap Arnold, made time to read and study military history. They used the knowledge to understand their world as it was and to see the possibilities of what it could become.

This first portion of the new CSAF Reading List captures the stories and visions of our founding fathers and Air Force Pioneers. Through the next four years, the Reading List will change, journeying from our past to our future horizons. The books will be available through our schools at Air University and our Air Force libraries. Some of these books are among my own personal favorites, and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I have. 

As we tackle all the challenges facing us today, I have no doubt we will succeed. We have done it before, and we will do it again. Our history proves our success is not founded on our technology, but on our Airmen. You are what makes this Air Force the most powerful Air Force in the world; our Nation is proud of who you are and what you have done, and I am proud to serve along side of you. Keep up the great work.

	T. MICHAEL MOSELEY General, USAF Chief of Staff