Move Over, Sun Tzu! — West Point Offers Military History Reading List

The author of the ancient military treatise The Art of War has some company in the form of Clausewitz, Thucydides and history’s most accomplished Machiavellian – Machiavelli.

According to the American current affairs journal, Foreign Policy, the U.S. military academy at West Point made headlines for releasing it’s list of required reading. Check it out at the link above.

Speaking of landmark books for strategists, this very blog ran a story last July entitled Mightier Than the Sword — Meet Some of Warfare’s Most Influential Scribes. In it, we discuss a number of the authors and books on West Point’s list along with at least one you might not have heard about. Check it out.

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