N72 Recommended Reading List

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N72 Recommended Reading List

• SWO Professional Library
• U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Rules
• Naval Officers Guide by William Mack
• Watch Officers Guide by ADM James Stavridis
• Division Officers Guide by ADM James Stavridis
• Bluejackets Manual by Thomas Cutler
• Naval Shiphandlers Guide by James Barber
• Naval Shiphandling by R.S. Crenshaw
• Surface Force Training Manual (SFTM)
• 3 M Instruction (OPNAVINST 4700)
• Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual VOL II, VOL V
  Part 3 Chapter 8
• COLREGS

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N72 Recommended Reading List

• Critical Thinking
• World is Flat A Brief History of the
  Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
• The Art of the Long View Planning for the
  Future in an Uncertain World by Peter Schwartz
• Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who
  Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His
  Time by Dava Sobel
• Joint and Combined Warfare
• War Made New by Max Boot
• Savage Wars of Peace Small Wars and the Rise of
  American Power by Max Boot
• Rethinking the Principles of War by Anthony
  McIvor
• Shield and Sword The United States Navy in the
  Persian Gulf War by Edward Marolda and Robert
  Schneller

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N72 Recommended Reading List

• Leadership
• Lincoln on Leadership Executive Strategies for
  Tough Times by Donald Phillips
• Good Shepherd by James Hirsch
• Two Souls Indivisible The Friendship That Saved
  Two POWs in Vietnam by C.S. Forester
• Integrity by Stephen Carter
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by
  Stephen Covey
• A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
• Shackletons Way Leadership Lessons from the
  Great Antarctic Explorer by Margot Morrell

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N72 Recommended Reading List

• Management and Strategic Planning
• Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the
  Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt
• Innovators Dilemma The Revolutionary Book That
  Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton
  Christensen
• Naval and Military Heritage
• One Hundred Years of Sea Power The U.S. Navy
  1890 1990 by George Baer
• Golden Thirteen Recollections of the First
  Black Naval Officers by Paul Stillwell
• Sailors History of the U.S. Navy by Thomas
  Cutler
• White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by
  Herman Melville

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N72 Recommended Reading List

• Regional and Cultural Awareness
• On the Origins of War And the Preservation of
  Peace by Donald Kegan
• Recognizing Islam Religion and Society in the
  Modern Middle East by Michael Gilsenan
• Further Reading
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