Bing West

Bing West

Bing West has written at least 10 books. Their most popular book is Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead with 30 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.

Author Bio

A graduate of Georgetown and Princeton Universities, he fought as a Marine grunt in Vietnam. He later served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. His ten books include The Village, that has been on the Marine Commandant’s Reading List for 40 years; The Strongest Tribe, a history of the Iraq war that was a New York Times Bestseller; and The Wrong War, a history of the Afghanistan war.

He is the recipient (twice) of Marine Corps Heritage, the Colby Military History Award, the General Goodpaster Prize for Military Scholarship, the Free Press Award, the Father Clyde Leonard Award, the Marine Corps Russell Award for Leadership and the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Media Award. His articles appear in The Wall St. Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The National Review and The Washington Post.

He is a member of the Hoover Military Historians Working Group at Stanford University, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Infantry Order of St. Crispin. He and his wife Betsy live in Newport RI and Hilton Head, SC. Bing has four children and eight grandchildren.
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
  • James N. Mattis
  • Bing West
414 reads
Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
  • Dakota Meyer
  • Bing West
4.52 reads
No true glory
No true glory
  • Bing West
00 reads
The Village
The Village
  • Bing West
00 reads
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
  • Bing West
00 reads
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The March Up

The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division
  • Bing West
  • Ray L. Smith
00 reads
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War
  • Bing West
00 reads
The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War
The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War
  • Bing West
00 reads
Into the Fire
Into the Fire
  • Dakota Meyer
  • Bing West
00 reads
The Wrong War
The Wrong War
  • Bing West
00 reads