Foundational Level Reading for all Incident Management Levels
| 1 | 9/11 Comission Report | 9/11 Comission | Foundational |
| 2 | A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | Foundational |
| 3 | Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink, Leif Babin | Foundational |
| 4 | FMFM 1-3 Tactics | U.S. Marine Corps | Foundational |
| 6 | Gates of Fire | Steven Pressfield | Foundational |
| 7 | Leadership | James McGregor Burns | Foundational |
| 8 | Leading in the Wildland Fire Service | NWCG | Foundational |
| 9 | MCDP 1-1 Strategy | U.S. Marine Corps | Foundational |
| 10 | MCDP 7 Learning | U.S. Marine Corps | Foundational |
| 11 | Strengthsfinder | Tom Rath | Foundational |
| 12 | The Allegory of the Cave | Plato | Foundational |
| 13 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | Foundational |
| 14 | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | Foundational |
| 15 | The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why | Amanda Ripley | Foundational |