The District of Columbia National Guard's Professional Reading List is a catalog of professional development tools meant to provoke critical thinking at each level. Crafted by DCNG senior leaders and senior enlisted leadership, the list is a catalog of professional development tools designed to inform, inspire and educate Citizen Soldiers and Citizen Airmen of all ranks in the DCNG.
List 1: For all of District of Columbia National Guard
• National Security Strategy of the United States of America
• National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
• U.S. National Guard by Carla Mooney
• Homeland Security by Michael Kerrigan
• The Constitution of the United States
• Centuries of Service: The U.S. Army 1775–2005 by David W. Hogan, Jr.
• For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America by Allan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski
List 2: For all of District of Columbia Army National Guard Citizen Soldiers
• The Army Strategy
• Army FY20 Posture Statement
• Army White Paper: The Army's Framework for Character Development
• U.S. Army Weapon Systems Handbook Archive
• 2019 Army National Guard Bureau Posture Statement
List 3: For all of District of Columbia Air National Guard Citizen Airmen
• America’s Air Force: A Call to the Future
• USAF FY2020 Posture Plan
• Air National Guard Strategic Plan
• Air National Guard’s 2019 Weapons Systems Modernization Priorities Book
• Air National Guard’s 2019 Domestic Capability Priorities Book
List 4: For Junior Officers (O-1/O-2), (W-1/W-2, Enlisted (E-1/E4), GS-1-6
• Starship troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
• Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
• Band of Brothers: 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
• We were Soldiers Once … and Young: Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by LTG (Ret.) Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
• In the Company of Heroes by Michael J. Durant
• The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield
• My Men are My Heroes by Brad Kasal
List 5: For CGO, WO3, E-5/E-6, GS 7-9
• The Armed Forces Officer by Albert C. Pierce, Richard Swain
• The Future Power by Joseph Nye
• The Future of Land Warfare by Michael E. O'Hanlon
• Drowned City by Don Brown
• Don't get stuck on stupid! By Lt. General Russel L. Honoré
• Introduction to Homeland Security: Principles of All-Hazards Risk Management 5th Edition
• JP 3-41 – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Response
List 6: For FGO, WO4, GS-10-14
• Responding to Catastrophic Events: Consequence Management and Policies Edited by Jeffrey A. Larsen
• Protecting Against Biological and Chemical Attack by Michael Kerrigan
• George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century by Mark A. Stoler
• On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Translated by Samuel Griffith
• On War by Carl von Clausewitz, Edited and Translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret
• The Mind of War by Grant T. Hammond
List 7: For Senior Enlisted Leaders
• The Noncommissioned Officer and Petty Officer BACKBONE of the Armed Forces by a Team of Enlisted Leaders
• The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps by David W. Hogan Jr., Robert K. Wright Jr., Arnold G Fisch Jr.
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
• Behind The Colors Where NCO Leadership Lives by Command Sgt. Maj. (Retired) Scott C. Schroeder
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
List 8: For Senior Leaders
• Marine Corps generalship by Edgar F Puryear
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
• War in European History by Michael Howard
• Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
• Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare by Juan Zarate