The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century (New Perspectives on Defence and Security)
By: Jack Watling
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser…
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1. Matterhorn
By: Karl Marlantes
3.30
Format: 107 pages,
A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly dec… read more
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2. The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
By: Robert D. Kaplan
3.86
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoonand Balkan … read more
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3. Engineers of Victory: The Making of the War Machine That Defeated the Nazis
By: Paul Kennedy
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powersand one of today's most … read more
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4. On China
By: Henry Kissinger
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to… read more
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5. House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
By: John R. Bruning , David Bellavia
3.92
Format: None pages,
One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action a… read more
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6. Our Enemies Will Vanish
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more
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- war
7. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
By: Jim Sciutto
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more
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8. 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
9. The Devil's Hand (Terminal List, #4)
By: Jack Carr
4.45
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
It’s been 20 years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and em… read more
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10. The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
By: Jack Carr
4.28
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the Ame… read more
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- military fiction
- war
"Revisionist views of the Constitution by opportunistic politicians and unelected judges with agendas that reinterpret the Bill of Rights to take power away from the people and consolidate it at the f…"-Jack Carr, The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
11. True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
By: Jack Carr
4.34
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skil… read more
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- military fiction
"To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we'll see on the other side, Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers."-Jack Carr, True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
"Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon, and he made his web gear…"-Jack Carr, True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
12. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
14. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
By: David H. Petraeus
4.06
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more
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- military fiction
- war
"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
15. Savage Son (Terminal List #3)
By: Jack Carr
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- military fiction
16. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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17. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international Do states act rationally? To… read more
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18. The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty-First Century (New Perspectives on Defence and Security)
By: Jack Watling
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser… read more
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- war
19. Next War: Reimagining How We Fight
By: John Antal
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An analysis of the lessons learned from recent wars, including the conflict in Ukraine, and how top… read more
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- war
20. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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- war
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
21. Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima (Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare)
By: Christopher Kyle Hemler
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Existing literature maintains that the U.S. Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War re… read more
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