24 must-read nonfiction books like China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications by Michael McDevitt

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Similar categories in Joseph J. Ellis's American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who…"

-Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

Similar categories in David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

Similar categories in Michael Hofmann's Storm of Steel book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War: A New History book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"

-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History

Similar categories in George C. Herring's From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Sharon Weinberger's The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in James D. Hornfischer's The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Thomas J. Cutler's A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in John Keegan's Roman Warfare book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Arthur Herman's Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in Graham Allison's Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in None's Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in Harold G. Moore's We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in Henry Kissinger's On China book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in None's Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

Similar categories in Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

Similar categories in Jim Mattis's Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in David H. Petraeus's Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Ananyo Bhattacharya's The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Similar categories in B.A. Friedman's On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"Operational art is what military staffs do to support tactics and strategy."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Intelligence is not just information--it is information that has been acquired, processed, and analyzed based on its relevance for the commander, the staff, or the mission."

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"Information warfare consists of everything a military force does to accurately sense and make sense of its interactions with its environment and enemy forces, preserve its ability to do so, and preve…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

"No military organization can exist without bureaucracy, as distasteful as it may be, and no professional organization should tolerate inefficient administration of bureaucratic requirements. As menti…"

-B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

Similar categories in Scott J. Shapiro's Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Similar categories in Chun Han Wong's Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in James R. Holmes's A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Mick Ryan's War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in James G. Stavridis's To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Tobias Harris's The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Qiao Liang's Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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Similar categories in Nate Silver's On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything book and Michael McDevitt's China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

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