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The Krakauer book about Tillman is outstanding (and chilling).

An interesting perspective – one that I hadn’t thought of given my institutional context and professional identity, where wars in general, and these wars in particular, *are* the subjects I teach to future officers. I don’t harbor any illusions that my teaching, per se, has life or death consequenses, but I do know the stakes are high for these young men and women. Regardless of what a student’s future career holds, it seems critical that classrooms are places where ideas are tested and challenged – intellectual combat zones, perhaps, that prepare for critical and flexible thinking. in the military it is often said that reputations are formed on the basis of your subordinate’s performance. There’s something to that.

I would also suggest the following, for many of the same reasons–and, I think, some of these do a better job at getting at the leadership angle than even the ones TR mentions above.

Bing West, _The Wrong War_
Greg Tomlin and Caleb Cage, _The Gods of Diyala_
Nathaniel Fick, _One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer_