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The Marine Corps has a long history of encouraging its servicemembers to educate themselves on not just the history of the Corps but about the larger world around them. In 1989, the reading list was codified, and since then, each Commandant has issued their Commandant’s Professional Reading List to improve Marines’ understanding of the military profession, the nature of warfare, and develop decision-making and critical-thinking skills. To support the endeavor for lifelong learning, the list is divided into subtopics: Commandant's Choice, Profession of Arms, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Foundational, Podcasts, and Periodicals.

Reading List

Marine Corps University Press is proud to be included in this program with the following titles currently on the list. As an open access publisher, these MCUP titles are freely available upon request. Please visit our shopping cart to submit your order.

 

The entire list of titles on the CMC's Professional Reading List are available HERE.

 




The Journal of Advanced Military Studies (JAMS) serves as a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of national security and international relations issues and how they impact the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps directly and indirectly. JAMS is an open access journal that offers a forum for open dialogue between scholars, policy makers, analysts, and military leaders and of crossing civilian-military boundaries to advance knowledge and solve problems.

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Marine Corps History is published twice a year on topics within the long history of the Corps: Civil War, Spanish-American War, Banana Wars, WWI, WWII, Korea, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and current operations. Articles must focus on some aspect of the Corps, either directly or indirectly, including foreign marines and joint operations.

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Expeditions with MCUP is an online academic journal that offers authors a forum for the debate of trending domestic and international topics. Expeditions with MCUP will have all the advantages of a scholarly journal, including peer review and expert editing, but in a shorter time frame than a traditional print journal. Our authors will discuss the full spectrum of themes within the context of national security, international relations, and geopolitics as they apply to and impact the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy, and the U.S. Marine Corps directly and indirectly.

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International Perspectives on Military Education: The international military learning community is among the largest and yet least studied educational systems in the world. It employs multidisciplinary scholars at the tops of their fields and educates students who become global security leaders and heads of international armed forces and governments, but we still understand relatively little about it in terms of its unique position within the scholarship of teaching and learning. International Perspectives on Military Education (IPME) aims to fill this gap and provide a centralized home for scholarship and reflections on military education in its many forms.

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China Military Studies Review: CMSR provides a centralized home for scholarship and reflections on Chinese military studies and the People’s Liberation Army in its many forms. Scholars and practitioners are invited to share their original research on Chinese strategic studies and the PLA including foundational knowledge on the way China shapes its military strategy, research on PLA operations, translations of PLA works, and MCU student research subject areas.

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A New Conception of War
John Boyd, The U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare
by Ian T. Brown

In 1989, the Marine Corps formally adopted a theory of conflict called maneuver warfare and described its tenets in a short but revolutionary doctrinal manual simply titled Warfighting. This conflict theory evolved along two paths that wound their way through the landscape of the late Cold War period before coming together in 1989. A New Conception of War traces this story from the post–Vietnam War years to the present.

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Always Faithful
250 Years of Remarkable Stories from the Collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps
Edited by Owen Linlithgow Conner

This year, the Marine Corps celebrates 250 years of achievement and history. In commemoration of this event, the curators of the National Museum of the Marine Corps are dedicating a special exhibit to highlight rare and previously unseen artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection. The artifacts and stories presented here are among the best documented pieces from the museum’s collection. Some feature the personal tales of individual Marines, while others are more representative of significant events or relate to broader Marine Corps traditions. This exhibit is not intended to rank or rate the “top” artifacts of Marine Corps history. Rather, the purpose of the exhibit is to honor and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Corps through a single lens of the museum’s collection.

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Evolution on Demand
The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in Twenty-first Century Conflicts and Beyond

Edited by Joanna Siekiera, PhD

The future battlespace promises to be complex, unpredictable, and multifaceted. To answer its challenges, military professionals must think deeply and innovatively about warfare’s evolving character and how to gain decisive advantage across a hotly contested global landscape. Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in Twenty-first Century Conflicts and Beyond, featuring the work of nonresident fellows of the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare, offers critical insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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two-volume set

  

On Contested Shores
The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

Volume 1
Edited by Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman

On Contested Shores
The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

Volume 2
Edited by Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman, and Walker D. Mills

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