A.M. Gray

In 1989 US Marine Corps Commandant General A. M. Gray distributed a remarkable 77-page document to every officer in the Corps. Authentically written and brilliantly articulate, Warfighting, the official doctrine of the US Marine Corps, calls to mind other classics of strategy such as Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Carl von Clausewitz’s On War, and Miyamoto Musashi’s The Book of Five Rings. In 1991, he retired from the Corps after 41 years of service.