A guidebook for decision makers about how to use history.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional reading list, 2017. The U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List 2017 Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List Includes index. Included in the U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List, 2004. Military Reading List: Army 2017.

Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. -- Social Security reform of 1983. -- Defending South Korea in 1950. -- Swine flu scare of 1976. -- Mayaguez rescue of 1975. -- Carter's "hundred days" in 1977. -- Americanizing the Vietnam War in 1965.-- Soviet Brigade in Cuba, 1979. -- Starting Social Security in 1935. -- Skybolt Affair of 1962. -- Arms Control Initiative of 1977. -- Bay of Pigs in 1961. -- Johnson's advisers on Vietnam, 1965. -- "Madam Secretary" v. Mary Anderson, 1933. -- Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. -- Helmut Schmidt v. Jimmy Carter. -- Harold Macmillan on Skybolt. -- Leonid Brezhnev and colleagues. -- Henry M. Jackson in the Senate. -- Marxism-Leninism and Soviet economics. -- American images of economic growth. -- LBJ placing people. -- Central Intelligence Agency. -- Center for Disease Control. -- Social Security Administration. -- Office of Planning and Evaluation. -- Thucydides on the Athenians. -- Mini-methods in staff work. -- George C. Marshall. -- Secession, 1860-61. -- Great crash.