The U.S. military invests heavily in time and resources to train its officers to be leaders in the broadest sense - forming them not only in military art and science (strategy, tactics, command, etc.), but also in humanistic knowledge, character, and values, as well as how to apply this education on a lightning-fast battlefield or within an inertially slow bureaucracy. The military develops its leaders, at the service academies and in ROTC programs, through very specific but also broad and deep education - a way of thinking that also has wide application in the civilian world, not only in various professional fields that need leaders and thinkers, but also among military history enthusiasts who want to understand how officers have thought across time and among American citizens who want - and, really, need - to understand how our military leaders think, how they advise presidents, how they lead on the battlefield. In a genre-busting book that spans Stackpole's two longstanding military programs - reference and history - Reed Bonadonna describes how officers think, how they ought to think, how they develop their skills, and how they can improve these skills, as well as how average civilians and citizens can learn from the example of military officers and their program of education. Bonadonna draws from military history, from military arts and science, from literature and science and more, to show how officers develop their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. A military officer is often called upon to be not only fighter and leader, but also negotiator, organizer, planner and preparer, teacher, writer, scientist, and advisor, and needs broad learning. This is a deeply learned and insightful book, one that cites Lincoln, Grant, Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Churchill as easily as Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, not to mention Homer, Plato, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, George Orwell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Joseph Heller, Phil Klay, and even Jane Austen. The book is descriptive as well as prescriptive and should find eager readers inside the military (where officers take seriously their professional education and their professional reading lists) as well as outside, where many look to the military, to military reading lists, and to military history, to glean lessons for life and work.

How to Think Like an Officer: Lessons in Learning and Leadership for Soldiers and Citizens

Bonadonna, Reed

Reference

Stackpole Books

Magic & Murder From worlds like our own, except for a touch of magic or the supernatural, to completely unique fantasy realms, there will always be those who use their powers for murder and mayhem. Come meet the stubborn detectives who simply won't let those crimes go unsolved... <ul><li>A Duelist-at-Law intervenes in the matter of a deadly affair of honor.</li><li>A private detective who takes on ghosts for clients...provided their estate can pay him.</li><li>A poet attempts to avert a man's unjust execution...using strategically applied haiku.</li><li>A rabbi wizard has a Hell of a hard time tracking down an undead murderer.</li><li>An albino nun investigates a murder that could only have been committed by an angel.</li><li>A knight-mage atones for her past sins by tracking down the source of an evil blood curse.</li><li>After wizards battle...someone has to clean up the mess.</li></ul> Plus even more stories from some of the finest crime and fantasy writers in the field! Authors include: Reed Bonadonna, Gregg Chamberlain, Robert Finegold, David Keener, Emma Melville, Jeff Patterson, Maria Prokopyeva, Daniel Robichaud, Donna Royston, Shannon Taft, David Tatum, Martin Wilsey, and Austin Worley.

Fantastic Detectives

Literature & Fiction

Keener, David

Worley, Austin

Chamberlain, Gregg

Patterson, Jeff

Wilsey, Martin

Taft, Shannon

Finegold, Robert

Tatum, David

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tannhauser Press

Served This Soldiering Through: Language, Masculinity, and Virtue in the World War II Soldier's Novel

Words, Language & Grammar

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller

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