Manual

 

Background Reading:

Matthew Bogdanos, "Joint Interagency Cooperation: The First Step," Joint Force Quarterly 37 (April 2005), available at: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1818.pdf.

Christopher Bourne, “Unintended Consequences of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, Joint Forces Quarterly (Spring 1998).

Carl Builder, Masks of War (Washington, DC: RAND, 1989).

James Carroll, House of War (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)

Dale Herspring, Rumsfeld's Wars: The Arrogance of Power (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2008).

Kathleen Hicks & Christine Wormuth, The Future of U.S. Civil Affairs Forces (Washington, DC: CSIS, 2009), available at: http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090219_hicks_futurecivilaffairs_web.pdf.

Christopher J. Lamb and Irving Lachow, “Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decision making,” Strategic Forum 221 (July 2006), available at: http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Strforum/SF221/SF221.pdf.

Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, available at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/congress/title_10.htm.

Gordon Lederman, Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff: the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999).

James Locher, Victory On The Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon (College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2004).

H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (New York: Harper Perennial, 1998).

National Security Act of 1947, available at: http://www.intelligence.gov/0-natsecact_1947.shtml.

Maj Gen Perry M. Smith and Col. Daniel M. Gerstein, Assignment Pentagon (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007)

Colin Powell, My American Journey (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996).

Mitchell Thompson, "Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power" Parameters 35, no. 4 (Winter 2005/2006).

U.S. Government Counterinsurgency Guide (Jan 2009), available http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/119629.pdf.

Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007).