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Melissa New books this year compared to lists from all previous years:
-- 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.


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