The Great Post-GMAP Book List

Author	Title	Who from	Comments by recommendor
Tiha von Ghyczy, Bolko von Oetinger and Christopher Bassford	Clausewitz on Strategy	Franz	a publication of the Strategy Institute of The Boston Consulting Group, Wiley 2001. Essentially this is a book about the strategic mind and less about military strategy. Top reading.
Richard Neustadt and Ernest May	Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers	Chap	Debby says the older version, by just May, is better. She recommends The Use and Abuse of History instead. Link is at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0029227917/qid=1054251042/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-8322652-7733506?v=glance&s=books
	Paris 1919
Ellickson	Order Without Law	Joel Trachtman	about cattle farmers in Shasta Valley.  Ellickson shows that although the law about lost cattle says one thing, farmers don't rely on it and have their own "rules," which make more sense.  These informal rules are enforced by reputation and social interaction--if you violate these rules, you can't be sued but you might be shunned.
Bjorn Lomborg	The Skeptical Environmentalist	Bill Moomaw	The Lomborg work is an interesting case, and I urge you to take a look at it.  Some of it is factual, but it is selective in which facts it uses.  The work has been condemned by a branch of the Danish Academy of Science as not being objective.
Hermann Ott		Katia	There is an excellent book by a German scientist Hermann Ott on European leadership in climate change.  It provides also excellent insights into the negotiations process and outlook on each of the key themes.  It must be available through Amazon.com.
Robert Timberg	The Nightingale’s Song	Jason	There is a great book (if you can get past the axe the author has to grind) by Robert Timberg about the intermingling of 5 Naval Acacemy graduates and President Reagan: John Poindexter, Robert McFarland, John McCain, Oliver North and James Webb.  Great insight into each person’s character.
	Fall From Glory	Chap	about Lehman's U.S. Navy.
Bob Woodward	Bush At War	Christian	Summary of post-9/11 decisions
	the Road to Hell	John Hammock	There is a book, very critical of aid, called the Road to Hell.  Done by a journalist, and was very provocative.
Martin Van Creveld	The Transformation of War	Nicolas
Doris Lessing	The Jewel of Africa	Chap	I didn’t read it, just read the review. It’s about Mugabe; written last year.
Anthony de Palma		Carlos	formerly the NYT correspondent in Canada and Mexico, and one of the first attempts to start visualizing what the North American continent will look like in the future based on the common interests of the three countries.
Montesquieu	Grandeur et Decadence des Romains	Nicolas	One of his main points links up with your analysis: the Republican laws that made Rome the master of an Empire became inappropriate for maintaining this very empire, as the laws were no longer appropriate once the cohesion of the small republic diluted itself in its expansion.  Citizenship - the core notion of the Roman Republic - became a fiction, Montesquieu writes.  In a way, he says that Rome was a victim of its own success.
Martin Gilbert		Debby Nutter	There is a wonderful book by Martin Gilbert, Churchill's great biographer, in which he finds everyone he could who ever worked for or with Churchill or their living relatives. The stories of his kindness and decency are compelling and impressive.
Edwin Hoyt	How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and his Admirals	Gabe	Great story.
John Keegan	The First World War	Brett	john keegan's excellent book "The First World War" cites the allies of having lost 265,000 and the "Turks... had probably lost 300,000 men killed, wounded and missing."
Hayao Kawai	Dreams, Myths & Fairy Tales in Japan	Yoko	There is a wonderful book (though terrible translation into English) by a man called Hayao Kawai which explains very well, WHY the Japanese diplomacy or the dealings among themselves emphasizes "balancing of power" and neutralization of influences.
Isaac Taylor Headland	Isaac Taylor Headland	Erping	http://chineseculture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwideschool.org%2Flibrary%2Fbooks%2Fsocl%2Fcustomsetiquettefolklore%2FCourtLifeinChina%2Ftoc.html
Robert Kagan	Of Paradise and Power	Chap	http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersoniraq/story/0,12975,921773,00.html
Dick Morris	Behind the oval office	Kiat	explaining in fine details as to how Clinton's administration with low popularity after 2 years in the office got re-elected for the second term.
Mark Singer	Funny Money	Brett	This is about the collapse of the Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma City, and the significant impact of its poor loan practice, and subsequent "upstream" selling of the same loans to larger banks, ala Continental Illinois.
K. Osumi	Whales and the Japanese	Yoko	marine biologist specializes in whales and dolphins, also a head of The Whale Research Institute (Nihon Geirui Kenkyujo)
	Stolen Valor	Chap	About Vietnam, fake medals, Agent Orange, etc. http://www.stolenvalor.com/ a good and necessary book but after about five chapters it becomes really slow reading.
Jared Diamond	Guns, Germs and Steel	Chap	about how previous societies made bad decisions over the long term in exactly the manner we're discussing now.
David Day	The Whale War	Tom	Interestingly I also bought a whaling book when I lived in Norway.