Entry Posted July 1, 2002

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/csalist/csalist.htm The Army Chief of Staff’s reading list. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: “The story of the Peloponnesian War has many lessons that continue to be valid today: the destructive ‘imperialization’ of an all-powerful democratic state, the arrogance of great power politics, the lure of conquest even when reason dictates otherwise, the cult of personality in a military at war (Pericles and Alcibiades), and the always delicate balance of power between the military and the political structures of a state.” 14:16