1. A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
  2. Before the First Shots Are Fired by Tony Zinni
  3. Defeat into Victory by Viscount Slim
  4. Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
  5. Diplomacy and World Order by Henry Kissinger
  6. Duty by Robert Gates
  7. Fighting Talk by Colin Gray
  8. For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith by Gail Shisler
  9. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
  10. Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
  11. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  12. March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman
  13. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  14. Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
  15. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period by Williamson Murray
  16. My American Journey by Colin Powell
  17. One Bullet Away by Nate Fick
  18. Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
  19. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
  20. The Future of Strategy by Colin Gray
  21. ​The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
  22. The Greatest Raid of All by Lucas Phillips
  23. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
  24. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
  25. The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon
  26. War, Morality, and the Military Profession by Malham Wakin
  27. With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
About: James Norman Mattis is a retired United States Marine general and former government official who served as the 26th United States Secretary of Defense from January 2017 through January 2019. A retired United States Marine Corps general, Mattis served in the Persian Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War. Wikipedia

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