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Titles of Interest Archive
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This section, while not a formal part of the CNO-PRP, may be of interest. Below are some additional books to enjoy:
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Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole
Posted on | No CommentsThe CNO Professional Reading Program is pleased to add Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole as a Title of Interest. The USS Cole’s former Commanding Officer, Commander Kurt Lippold (Ret), provides an... -
No Higher Honor: Saving the Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf
Posted on | No CommentsThe USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58) was a small warship built for escort duty much like its namesake vessel, one of the “tin can” heroes of Leyte Gulf. But its commanding officer imbued his... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Posted on | No CommentsThe Pacific Crucible (2012, by Ian Toll) is an outstanding history of World War II in the Pacific during the period of 1941-42. Pacific Crucible is author Ian Toll’s second book about the U.S. Navy following... -
Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia
Posted on | No CommentsBy RADM Terry McKnight, USN (Ret) This recently published USNI press book provides an interesting and in depth examination of the problems surround piracy in the waters off the Horn of Africa. In Pirate Alley,... -
Fixing the Facts
Posted on | No CommentsJoshua Rovner’s Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence (Cornell University Press, 2011) is the recipient of this year’s International Security Studies Best Book Award. In Fixing the Facts, Rovner explores the... -
The Twilight War
Posted on | No Commentsby David Crist For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. A...
