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On Grand Strategy
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3.75 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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3.94 avg rating — 40,513 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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3.99 avg rating — 63,879 ratings
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Perception and Misperception in International Politics
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4.15 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
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4.05 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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3.85 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
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3.66 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
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3.85 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict Between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
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3.61 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
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4.20 avg rating — 610 ratings
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Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
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3.55 avg rating — 550 ratings
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On the Law of War and Peace
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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4.03 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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3.93 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
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4.01 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Command Of The Air
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Air Power and Armies
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3.66 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Strategy
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4.08 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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The Foundations of the Science of War
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3.02 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Every War Must End (Columbia Classics
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3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Afghanistan 20/20: A History of the U.S. War in Declassified Documents
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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战略学 (Science of Strategy, 2015 National Defense University Edition)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A History of Air Warfare
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3.75 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Our air force, the keystone of national defense
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
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3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940
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4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
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4.34 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945
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3.85 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
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3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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4.54 avg rating — 3,074 ratings
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The Battle of Midway
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4.39 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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MacArthur's Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific
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3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Hump: America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II
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3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
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4.39 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
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4.17 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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The Global Transformation: History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations
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4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
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3.92 avg rating — 584 ratings
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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4.06 avg rating — 3,733 ratings
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Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
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3.60 avg rating — 206 ratings
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When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin’s Operational Code
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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4.25 avg rating — 11,149 ratings
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Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
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3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
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4.29 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
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3.41 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea
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3.63 avg rating — 57 ratings
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To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
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3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Transformation of American Air Power
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3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Powerful And Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive
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3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
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4.16 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War
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4.29 avg rating — 152 ratings
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El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Air Power in the Age of Primacy: Air Warfare since the Cold War
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999
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3.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Air War Against the Islamic State: The Role of Airpower in Operation Inherent Resolve
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
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3.98 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel
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4.16 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
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Strategy in the Missile Age
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
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3.73 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
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4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
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4.28 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Economic Sanctions Reconsidered
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3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Logic of Violence in Civil War
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4.21 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Understanding Modern Warfare
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4.08 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.19 avg rating — 11,913 ratings
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The Psychology of Terrorism
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3.75 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Evolution of a Revolt
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3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings
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On Warfare: On Guerrilla Warfare/On Protracted War/Other Martial Writings
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4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Guerrilla Warfare
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3.77 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
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Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America
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3.45 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
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4.17 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958
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3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency
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3.78 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Flight Risk: The Coalition's Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics
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4.04 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
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4.01 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power
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4.07 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
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3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
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3.59 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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4.12 avg rating — 444,295 ratings
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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge (Harvard Business Review
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3.87 avg rating — 548 ratings
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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4.09 avg rating — 16,647 ratings
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
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4.28 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
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4.11 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
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3.82 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
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4.10 avg rating — 3,787 ratings
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
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4.05 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests
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3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Astropolitik
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4.02 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Space Warfare in the 21st Century
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3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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-- Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
-- Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
-- Ralph D. Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
-- Beatrice Heuser, "Christine de Pizan, the First Modern Strategist" (Book chapter from "Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830")
-- Christine de Pizan, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
-- Hugo Grotius, Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace
-- Giulio Douhet, The Command of the Air
-- Sir Basil Henry Liddell-Hart, Strategy
-- Fred Charles Ikle, Every War Must End
-- National Security Archive, Afghanistan 20/20: The 20 Year War in 20 Documents
-- William Mitchell, Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense
-- Ilya Grinberg, Von Hardesty, Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in WWII
-- Stacey E. Goddard, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
-- Stephen Hartnett, A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War
-- Graeme P. Herd, Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin's Operational Code
-- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
-- William J. Norris, Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy and State Control
-- James A. Warren, Year of the Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
-- Joseph T. Stanik, El Dorado Canyon: Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi
-- Hal Brands, The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
-- Brad Roberts, The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
-- Oriana Mastro, The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime
-- John Horgan, The Psychology of Terrorism
-- Walter Ladwig III, The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships in Counterinsurgency
-- Forrest Marion, Flight Risk: The Coalition Air Advisory Mission in Afghanistan, 2005-2015
-- Seth Jones, Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
-- Marina Nitze, Nick Sinai: Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role On Any Team
-- Audrey Kurth Cronin: Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
-- Christian Brose: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
-- Bleddyn E. Bowen: War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
So, 30/100 books on this year's list are new to the SAASS reading list.