13 best-selling history books like Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre

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Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea…

"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating is one that will have intelligent machines in it, but it is not for them. It is a world for us."

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

If you liked the history plot in Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Timeis a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and hono… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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2. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

By: Mark Mazzetti

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America's… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

3. Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant a… read more

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4. The Siege (The Siege, #1)

By: Helen Dunmore

4.03

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore… read more

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  • war
"They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

"Andrei glances up. The angle of candlelight flushes his hollow, old man’s face with youth. He smiles at her. Although his eyes are only shadows in this light, she knows their exact colour. They are b…"

-Helen Dunmore, The Siege (The Siege, #1)

5. Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

By: P.W. Singer , August Cole

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. T… read more

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6. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

By: None , Ben R. Rich

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more

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7. This Kind of War

By: T.R. Fehrenbach

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition… read more

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8. The Future of War: A History

By: Lawrence Freedman

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought… read more

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9. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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10. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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11. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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13. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

By: Jim Mattis

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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14. On the Horizon

By: Lois Lowry

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Lois Lowry comes an account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Har… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
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15. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

By: Sean McFate

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

16. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

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17. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Cover of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan

18. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
Cover of First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks

19. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

By: Thomas E. Ricks

4.08

Format: 416 pages, ebook

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

Cover of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer

20. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

By: P.W. Singer

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger

21. The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire

By: David E. Sanger

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cy… read more

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  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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On the Horizon

Lois Lowry

4.27

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The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

Sean McFate

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Christian Brose

4.13

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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

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2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

3.80

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Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

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