The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
By: Brad Roberts
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
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1. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
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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- military fiction
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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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- military fiction
- nonfiction
5. 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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- military fiction
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
10. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed
By: Kenneth N. Waltz , None
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Kenneth Waltz, Dean of Realist Theory in international relations at Columbia University, expands on… read more
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11. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
12. 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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13. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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- nonfiction
15. On Grand Strategy
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
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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17. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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- nonfiction
"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
18. The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
By: Andrew F. Krepinevich
4.23
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challeng… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
19. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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- nonfiction
20. 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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21. 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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- nonfiction
"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)
22. The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
By: Hal Brands
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition, as told through America’s successes and fai… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
24. 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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25. Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
By: Stephen Peter Rosen
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace … read more
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- military fiction
- nonfiction
"Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race. Those involved in decisions about new mi…"-Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
26. 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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- nonfiction
27. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
By: Tami Davis Biddle
3.82
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American … read more
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28. Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
By: Jenifer Van Vleck
3.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspire… read more
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29. 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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30. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
By: Stephen D. Biddle
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
By: Bleddyn E Bowen
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the… read more
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