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Navy Reading is the official website of the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program (CNO-PRP), and is maintained by CNO-PRP program managers at the U.S. Naval War College.
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Recommended Videos
Posted on | No CommentsRecommended Videos Title Description A State of Mind (2003) BBC documentary on North Korea Act of Valor (2012) Real life special warfare action and adventure portrayed by Navy SEALS. Amistad (1997) Based on the true... -
CNO-PRP books heading to over 450 Navy commands
Posted on | No CommentsEmployees of the Navy Exchange’s South East Distribution Center in Pensacola, FL are packing and preparing nearly 1,200 CNO Professional Reading Program (CNO-PRP) book kits. These kits will be leaving the warehouse in the next... -
CNO’s Welcome
Posted on | No CommentsCNO Launches New Professional Reading Program By Ensign Alex Cornell du Houx, U.S. Naval War College Public Affairs Oct. 24, 2012 NEWPORT, R.I. – Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert introduced the newest... -
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... -
1776
Posted on | No CommentsThere’s a reason this latest telling of an oft-told tale became such a bestseller; in just under 300 pages, David McCullough manages to chronicle with great verve and immediacy the sweeping story of that fateful... -
Integrity
Posted on | No Commentsby Stephen Carter This Recommended category, Be Ready book examines why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American imagination. By weaving together insights from philosophy, theology, history and law, along with examples... -
Leadership, The Warrior’s Art
Posted on | No Commentsby Christopher Kolenda Edited by Christopher Kolenda; foreword by General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) This varied collection of essays brings together some of the foremost military thinkers as they look at the dynamics of... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius…
Posted on | No Commentsby Dava Sobel In this Recommended category, Be Ready book, the author acknowledges that anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and...
