16 Top history books like Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive by Stephen P. Randolph

Cover of Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive by Stephen P. Randolph

Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive

By: Stephen P. Randolph

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict …

If you liked the history plot in Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive by Stephen P. Randolph , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War by James Kitfield

1. Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War

By: James Kitfield

4.28

Format: 478 pages, Paperback

Documenting the transformation of the U.S. military from Vietnam to the Gulf War, a history of a ge… read more

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2. Command of the Air

By: Giulio Douhet

3.36

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

English, Italian (translation) read more

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3. The Battle of Midway

By: Craig L. Symonds

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so d… read more

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4. Arms and Influence

By: Thomas C. Schelling

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as t… read more

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5. Every War Must End

By: Fred Charles Iklé

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

"Mission accomplished," George Bush famously proclaimed in reference to the defeat of Saddam Hussei… read more

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6. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II

By: Phillips Payson O'Brien

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly tho… read more

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7. Strategy in the Missile Age

By: Bernard Brodie

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

The description for this book, Strategy in the Missile Age, will be forthcoming. read more

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8. The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives … read more

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9. MacArthur's Airman: General George C.Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific

By: None

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

A fighter pilot who flew seventy-five combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charis… read more

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10. Destroying the Village: The Prospect of Thermonuclear War in American Security Policy

By: Campbell Craig

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

In the early days of the Cold War, thermonuclear conflict was everywhere an imminent threat. With t… read more

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11. Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War

By: Robert A. Pape

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increa… read more

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12. To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

By: None

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the … read more

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13. Principles of Maritime Strategy

By: Julian Stafford Corbett

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

This brilliant exposition established British naval historian Julian Corbett (1854-1922) as one of … read more

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14. The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour

By: None

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of … read more

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15. The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The U.s.: A Speculative Novel

By: Jeffrey Lewis

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

“A brilliantly conceived page-turner.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and  Command and … read more

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16. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare

By: Seth G. Jones

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns tha… read more

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  • history
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17. Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm (Studies in Air Power)

By: John Andreas Olsen

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air powe… read more

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Cover of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (New Cold War History) by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

18. Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (New Cold War History)

By: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

4.17

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americani… read more

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  • history
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19. Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive

By: Stephen P. Randolph

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict … read more

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Cover of Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War by Phil Haun

20. Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War

By: Phil Haun

4.14

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air force… read more

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21. American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953

By: Conrad C. Crane

3.44

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the… read more

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  • history
Cover of El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi by Joseph T. Stanik

22. El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi

By: Joseph T. Stanik

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

America's war on terrorism did not start on 11 September. Long before the overt war in Afghanistan … read more

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Cover of NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999 by Dag Henriksen

23. NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999

By: Dag Henriksen

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and con… read more

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Cover of Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) by Vipin Narang

24. Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

By: Vipin Narang

4.31

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. … read more

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"The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally."

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"The basic point is that nuclear postures matter to the pattern of conflict a state experiences. Not only do regional powers select different strategies and postures, but those choices have critical i…"

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

"Nuclear posture is the incorporation of some number and type of nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles state's overall military structure, the rules and procedures governing how those weapons are dep…"

-Vipin Narang, Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)

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25. Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965

By: James A. Warren

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” ( Library Journal , starred … read more

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"Chastened by the searing experience of Indochina, American presidents refrained from committing the country to ambitious foreign adventures in the last quarter of the twentieth century, for the most …"

-James A. Warren, Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965

Cover of Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea (Volume 80) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) by Xiaoming Zhang

26. Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea (Volume 80) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

By: Xiaoming Zhang

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea c… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency by Walter C. Ladwig III

27. The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency

By: Walter C. Ladwig III

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

After a decade and a half of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers are seeking to provide ai… read more

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Cover of Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists by Audrey Kurth Cronin

28. Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists

By: Audrey Kurth Cronin

3.77

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotic… read more

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  • history
Cover of Air Power and Armies by John Cotesworth Slessor

29. Air Power and Armies

By: John Cotesworth Slessor

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897–1979) was one of Great Britain's most influential airmen. He play… read more

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Cover of The Foundations of the Science of War by J.F.C. Fuller

30. The Foundations of the Science of War

By: J.F.C. Fuller

3.04

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A Military Classic Reprint This is a compilation of material presented by Fuller when he was ch… read more

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Cover of The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century by Brad Roberts

31. The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

By: Brad Roberts

4.12

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to … read more

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20 Top history books like The Foundations of the Science of War by J.F.C. Fuller

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Command of the Air

Giulio Douhet

3.36

Transform Your Habits

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

Edward Hallett Carr

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China

Ralph D. Sawyer

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

Adam Tooze

4.20

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