I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38IDMDZ/ref=cm_sw_r_de_lm) 1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz 2. Leadership: The Warrior's Art by Barry R. McCaffrey 3. Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach by Dandridge M. Malone 4. The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat by James R. McDonough 5. The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle by Robert Leonhard 6. Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by B. H. Liddell Hart 7. The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli 8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri by Tsunetomo Yamamoto 9. The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 10. The Art of War (Shambhala classics) by Sun Tzu 11. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 12. Evolutionary Game Theory by Jörgen W. Weibull 13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung 14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides…
Also recommended in this reply
- The Art of War
- The Prince
- On War
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Strategy
- The Emperor's Handbook
- The Histories
- The Art of War
- Evolutionary Game Theory
- Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
- Leadership: The Warrior's Art
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- On Guerrilla Warfare
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
- Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
- The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and AirLand Battle
- The Defense of Hill 781: An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
- The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX: The War with Hannibal
- The Persian Expedition