Leadership, technology, and history place high on the list of subjects Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, wants his charges to read about during the coming year. Schwartz’s 2011 reading list, released Jan. 21, includes:
* Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission To Promote Peace … One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin;
* Technolog Horizons: A Vision fo the Ari Force Science and Technology, b Dr. Werner Dahm;
* The All-Americans, by Lars Anderson;
* Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Mark Perry;
* The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953, By Robert Dallek;
* Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: Dare the Impossible; Achieve the Extroaordinary, by William Allen Cohen;
* Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, by Robert Kaplan;
* Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It, by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake;
* The Return of History and the End of Drams, by Robert Kagan;
* A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, by Alistair Horne;
* Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan,a nd Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid;
* Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds, by Robin Olds, Christina Olds, and Ed Rasimus;
* Red Eagles: America’s Secret MiGs, by Steve Davies;
* Cataclysm: General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan, by Herman S. Wouk.
