AARC Recommended Reading and Book Reviews
Throughout history, successful soldiers have schooled their minds as well as their bodies, and have examined the challenges faced and experience gained by earlier generations through education and the widest possible reading. A soldier's most flexible and most effective weapon is her or his brain.
Australian Army Reading List 2019The Australian Army Reading List 2019 provides officers and soldiers a number of publications recommended by the Service for its members to educate themselves on conflict and history and, thus, prepare him or her for a role in the profession of arms.
Military Recommended Reading - July 2017There is no shortage of popular, academic and professional accounts of the Second World War. Therefore, to attract the attention of military professionals, new books must offere something exceptional. CJ Dick’s two volumes on the summer campaigns of 1944 meet that requirement. He uses operational art and the principles of war as a framework for his analysis, which is refreshing. This leads to a...
Chief of Army's Reading List 2012This reading list has been designed to provide all ranks with a guide to publications relevant to the study of the profession of arms. Many of the publications listed are historical in nature, the study of history being important in broadening perspectives and in providing a start point to understand and shape the future. As in previous reading lists this edition is divided into themes varying...
Chief of Army's Reading List 2007This reading list consists of works of fiction and non-fiction. It is firmly based on history and contemporary commentary. It tells us about our own journey as an Army and it also shows the journey of other armies through history. Many of the stories are inspiring and uplifting, some will make you angry as you read of avoidable mistakes and unnecessary deaths. There is much to learn from these...
The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 2The 2016 Land Power Forum paper, The canon and four generations of warfare,[1] notes that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled Two Marine Corps [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the pr...
- The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 3
The Land Power Forum papers, The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1 and 2,[1] note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled Two Marine Corps [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the prog...
- The Canon and Four Generations of Warfare – Part 4
The Land Power Forum papers, The canon and four generations of warfare Parts 1, 2 and 3,[1] note that in June 2004, the writer William S. Lind published an article titled Two Marine Corps [one the manoeuvre warfare Marine Corps, the second the p...
