Welcome to the sixty-fifth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! 

I received word this week my book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit is now on the four-star commander of Air Mobility Command General Mike Minihan's "Leadership Library" reading list under the heading We Are the Maneuver. I'm grateful and humbled General Minihan thinks enough of my book to be included on his first published list.

In February of last year, I gave my listeners a reading list of great books in the episode called "Book of the Month Club". This episode updates my reading list based on some of the current events going on around the world with the war between Russia and Ukraine, the use of drones in the same conflict and our Reaper drones being assaulted over Syria, and some of the current operations ongoing in the Pacific and Europe. I expect in the coming months I will add more to the list to expand your understanding of air operations and lessons learned to improve critical thinking skills both in the air and on the ground. My new list includes the following books that are linked to Amazon if you want to add the to your library:

Hunter Killer by Mark McCurley

Blue Moon over Cube by William Ecker

Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen

Shooter by Jack Coughlin

Razor 03 by Al Mack

Scream of Eagles by Robert Wilcox

The Air Campaign by John Warden

12 Strong by Doug Stanton

To Win the Winter Sky by Danny Parker

The First and the Last by Adolf Galland

Support for the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast comes from the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit found on Amazon in all four formats; Hardback, Softback with black and white pictures, Kindle and Audible. The electronic versions of the book download with an extra file of the thirty-two pictures included in the book.

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Thanks for downloading and listening to this episode of books I'm reading. This and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast are available on my www.markhasara.com website.