I believe that it is just as important for us to feed our minds as it is to feed our bodies. While there are many forms of intellectual nutrition, for me nothing can take the place of reading books.
I realize that every person's interests and preferences are different. Mine tend to gravitate toward history and biography. I especially like to read about some of the people who inspire me, such as Lincoln, Churchill, and Reagan.
I have listed some of the books I have read recently so that you can scan the list, find something you want to explore, and hopefully enjoy.
2016
Ghost Fleet, 2015
By: P.W. Singer
Warriors and Citizens, 2016
By: Kori Schake and Jim Mattis, eds.,
Margaret Thatcher - At Her Zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow, 2016
By: Charles Moore
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, 2015
By: Jon Meacham
Tribe, 2016
By: Sebastian Junger
Kissinger – 1923-1968: The Idealist, 2015
By: Niall Ferguson
This Kind of War, 1963
By: T.R. Fehrenbach
Moving Mountains, 2016
By: John Eldredge
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, 2016
By: Eliot Cohen
The Road to Character, 2015
By: David Brooks
The Conservative Heart, 2015
By: Arthur Brooks
Reagan: The Life, 2015
By: H.W. Brands
Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government, 2015
By: Larry P. Arnn
Fall 2015
The Future of Land Warfare
By: Michael O'Hanlon
Statecraft
By: Margaret Thatcher
Doomed to Succeed
By: Dennis Ross
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
Exceptional
By: Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney
Churchill
By: Ashley Jackson
Summer 2015
On the Origins of War
By: Donald Kagan
Being Nixon
By: Evan Thomas
Team of Teams
By: General Stanley McChrystal
The Boys in the Boat
By: Daniel Brown
The Bully Pulpit
By: Doris Kearns
Ghost Fleet
By: P.W. Singer and August Cole
Spring 2015
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
By: Michael Ignatieff
The Peloponnesian War
By: Donald Kagan
Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces
By: James Cook
Out of the Mountains
By: David Kilcullen
National Insecurity
By: David Rothkopf
The Wise Men
By: Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
Strategic Failure
By: Mark Moyar
Antifragile
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Winter 2014/2015
The World America Made
By: Robert Kagan
Grand Strategies
By: Charles Hill
The Sleepwalkers
By: Christopher Clark
The Accidental Admiral
By: Admiral James Stavridis
Uncontrolled
By: Jim Manzi
The Last Warrior
By: Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts
Mass Flourishing
By: Edmund Phelps
The Insurgents
By: Fred Kaplan
The Churchill Factor
By: Boris Johnson
Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
Warrior Diplomat
By: Michael Waltz
Fall 2014
The Literary Churchill
By: Jonathan Rose
The Organized Mind
By: Daniel Levitin
World Order
By: Henry Kissinger
The Way Forward
By: Paul Ryan
The Guns of August
By: Barbara Tuchman
Summer 2014
The Me I Want to Be
By: John Ortberg
Reagan at Reykjavik
By: Kenneth Adelman
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
By: Lynne Cheney
Freedom's Forge
By: Arthur Herman
The Locust Effect
By: Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
By: James Steingberg and Michael O'Hanlon
Flight of the Eagle
By: Conrad Black
Strategy
By: Lawrence Freedman
Spring 2014
No Higher Honor
By: Condoleezza Rice
Duty
By: Robert Gates
Edmund Burke
By: Jesse Norman
Noble Warrior
By: James Livingston
Leaders Eat Last
By: Simon Sinek
Inventing Freedom
By: Daniel Hannan
The Impossible State
By: Victor Chu
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