Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
To note:
1. The recommended reading for HCSC consists of 3 elements, namely Books, Doctrine and Articles. The latter are issued in the days
preceding each phase and are constituted from the very best of contemporary, timeless or alternative thinking.
2. A leading list of 8 books represents the essential texts that need to be read and understood by all. These will be sent to students
before the course. Most are permanent issue.
3. A further selection will be issued on arrival and are highly likely to be referred to either on course or as a classic text in quotation.
Some are permanent issue.
4. A few others books are also highly recommended and will be made available for easy referral as required. These include the
Advanced Command and Staff Course papers from 2009 that were graded within the top 10% (‘learning from our juniors’). Naturally,
specific enquiries for monographs, case studies and research papers will draw upon the full resources of the JSCSC library.
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Title READ READ/ REFER READ
BEFORE to DURING AS ABLE
COURSE COURSE
Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won, Explaining Victory in World War 2 (Vintage/Ebury, 1996)
John Gooch (Ed), Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War, (London: Frank Cass, 1989)
Colin Gray, Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History, (London: Frank
Cass, 2004)
Thomas Hammes, The Sling and the Stone, (Zenith Press, 2004)
Paul Rexton Kan, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare (Washington: Potomac Books, 2009)
Media (HLTO 4)
Nik Gowing, Skyful of Lies and Black Swans (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford
University, 2009)
Components of Fighting Power (HTLO 5)
Dr Stuart Griffin, Joint Operations - A Short History (JDCC 2005).
Colin S Gray, The Leverage of Sea Power: The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War, (US: Free Press,
1992)
Geoffrey Till (Ed), Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century, (London: Frank Cass, 2003)
Keegan, John The Face of Battle (London: Pimlico Military Classics, 2004)
Brian Holden Reid (ed), Military Power: Land Warfare In Theory And Practice, (London: Frank Cass, 1997)
Martin van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics From Wallenstein To Patton (Cambridge: University Press,
1977)
John Terraine, The Right of the Line: The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945, (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
John A Warden, The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat, (Pergamon-Brassey’s, 1989)
Higher Command (HLTO 6)
Eliot Cohen, Supreme Command: soldiers, statesmen and leadership in wartime, (London: Free Press, Permanent
2003) Issue
Keegan, John, The Mask of Command, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) Permanent
Issue
Gary Sheffield and Geoffrey Till, The Challenges of High Command, The British Experience, (Palgrave
MacMillan, 2003)
War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, edited by Alex Danchev and Dan Todman
(London: Phoenix, 2002)
Jonathan Riley, Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy, (Hambledon
Continuum, 2007)
Martin van Creveld, Command in War, (USA: Harvard University Press, 1985)
G D Sheffield (Ed), Leadership and Command - The Anglo-American Military Experience Since 1861,
(London: Brassey’s (UK), 1997)
H R McMasters, Dereliction of Duty, (London: Harper Collins, 1998)
Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, (London: John Murray,
1996)
Lest We Forget (HLTO 6)
Charles Lamb, War in a Stringbag (London: Cassell, 2002) Understand the
Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea (London: The Book Club, 2002) Ethos of
George Macdonald Fraser, Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma (London: the Services
HarperCollins, 1992)
Wellum, Geoffrey, First light (London: Penguin, 2003) beyond your
own
Norman Dixon, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, (London: Pimlico, 1976)
Laws and Ethics (HTLO 6)
Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New York: Perseus, 1977) Permanent
Issue
Sorabji/Rodin, The Ethics of War (Oxford: Ashgate, 2006)
Nigel Biggar, Burying the Past: making peace and doing justice after civil conflict (Georgetown University
Press, 2003)
Students are expected to be familiar with their own component and Service doctrine as relevant to the Operational Level.
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