17 best-selling nonfiction books like Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat by Jeffrey R. Cares

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Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat

By: Jeffrey R. Cares

3.76

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the opera…

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1. Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control

By: J.C. Wylie

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Military StrategyRear Admiral J.C. Wylie invented the intellectual framework and terminology wit… read more

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2. The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command

By: None , John Woodward

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education no… read more

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3. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar

By: P.W. Singer , Allan Friedman

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven … read more

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4. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: Peter L. Berger , Thomas Luckmann

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledg… read more

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5. Young Men and Fire

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefight… read more

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6. Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War

By: Kevin Dougherty

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

A selection of the Military Book Club While the Civil War is mainly remembered for its epic battles… read more

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7. A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign

By: None

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the… read more

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8. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd

By: None

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed. This model r… read more

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9. The Campaigns of Napoleon

By: David G. Chandler

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex -- an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions,… read more

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10. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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11. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

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12. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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13. 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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"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

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14. The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

By: Elbridge A. Colby

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition—A Wall St… read more

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"Physical force, especially the ability to kill, is the ultimate form of coercive leverage. While there are other sources of influence, such as wealth, persuasiveness, and charisma, they are all domin…"

-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

"If extensive and global economic engagement and growing wealth have not already persuaded China to change its behavior, it is unclear why it would be more likely to do so as it grows stronger and thu…"

-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

"This is because, if China could establish hegemony over Asia, it could then set up a commercial and trading bloc anchored in the world's largest market that would privilege its own and subordinates' …"

-Elbridge A. Colby, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

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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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16. The Academy (Dan Lenson Novels, #22)

By: David Poyer

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

With high ethical stakes and a suspenseful past-and-present narrative, The Academy is David Poyer's… read more

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17. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more

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"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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18. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By: Hal Brands

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more

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19. 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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"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

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20. Carrying the War to the Enemy: American Operational Art to 1945 (Volume 28) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

By: Michael R. Matheny

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of "operational art," the knowledg… read more

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Cover of China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications by Michael McDevitt

21. China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications

By: Michael McDevitt

4.05

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is … read more

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Cover of Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation by Earl J. Hess

22. Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation

By: Earl J. Hess

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effect… read more

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23. Fighting by Minutes: Time and the Art of War

By: Robert R. Leonhard

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

This book argues that time is the primary dimension in modern war and explores the paradoxes of war… read more

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24. The Evolution of Operational Art

By: Georgii Samoilovich Isserson

4.26

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

One can argue that the development of true doctrine required the formal adoption of the concept of … read more

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25. Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat

By: Jeffrey R. Cares

3.76

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the opera… read more

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26. The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan

By: Matt Pottinger

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has openly expressed his intention to annex Taiwan to mainland China, eve… read more

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Cover of Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control by Joseph Caldwell Wylie Jr.

27. Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control

By: Joseph Caldwell Wylie Jr.

4.00

Format: 206 pages, ebook

"No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-e… read more

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28. Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars

By: George Galdorisi

3.33

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

It is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been th… read more

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29. 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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"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

"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

"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

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30. Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences

By: Richard K. Betts

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

" Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were t… read more

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31. 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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14 Best politics books like Cybersecurity and Cyberwar by P.W. Singer, Allan Friedman

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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Kim Zetter

4.17

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Jane Mayer

4.16

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