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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
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4.30 avg rating — 4,588 ratings
"This is a contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American power. Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy that—alone among the developed nations—is rapidly approaching energy independence. Combined, these factors are doing nothing less than overturning the global system and ushering in a new order. He concludes that geography will matter more than ever in a deglobalizing world and that America’s geography is simply sublime."
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Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare
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3.90 avg rating — 170 ratings
"In this book, an acclaimed scholar of strategy and strategic theory turns his attention to how warfare is changing at a rapid pace in the twenty-first century. While political, technological, social, and religious forces are shaping the future of warfare, most Western armed forces have yet to evolve significantly from the Cold War era when they trained to resist a conventional invasion by the Warsaw Pact. America is now the only superpower, but its dominance is threatened by internal and external factors. The world’s most high-tech weaponry seems helpless in the face of determined guerrilla fighters not afraid to die for their beliefs."
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
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3.81 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
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3.79 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
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3.82 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective
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4.17 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action
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3.35 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Future of Land Warfare (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
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3.56 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Future of Power
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3.79 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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Great Powers and Geopolitical Change
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3.47 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
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4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings
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No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn
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3.66 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
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4.16 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Politics Among Nations
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4.09 avg rating — 1,131 ratings
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The Post-American World
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3.86 avg rating — 12,867 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
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4.14 avg rating — 6,466 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
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4.14 avg rating — 2,735 ratings
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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
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3.80 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World
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3.76 avg rating — 910 ratings
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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4.06 avg rating — 3,790 ratings
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
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3.97 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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The World America Made
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3.75 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
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3.74 avg rating — 2,255 ratings
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World Order
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4.04 avg rating — 14,135 ratings
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Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
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4.22 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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4.39 avg rating — 19,989 ratings
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
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3.94 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945
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4.31 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Milestones
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3.93 avg rating — 5,789 ratings
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
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3.96 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
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The Next Great War?: The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict
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3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
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3.51 avg rating — 4,166 ratings
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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
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4.02 avg rating — 557 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.24 avg rating — 14,262 ratings
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Strategy
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4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power
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4.01 avg rating — 87 ratings
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War in European History
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3.96 avg rating — 626 ratings
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1776
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4.10 avg rating — 249,737 ratings
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The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 (Histories of the American Frontier Series)
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3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings
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America's First Battles, 1776-1965
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3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 23,087 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 16,037 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
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4.48 avg rating — 10,997 ratings
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Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
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4.25 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
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4.07 avg rating — 2,888 ratings
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Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War (Volume 129) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
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3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
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4.62 avg rating — 7,208 ratings
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Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
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4.37 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945
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3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The First World War
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3.86 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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4.28 avg rating — 275 ratings
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 85,297 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 460,641 ratings
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History of Rome
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3.93 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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4.36 avg rating — 11,233 ratings
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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3.95 avg rating — 40,791 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
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4.61 avg rating — 10,322 ratings
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Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine & Training in the German Army, 1920-39
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3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power
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4.07 avg rating — 615 ratings
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The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
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3.90 avg rating — 73 ratings
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
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4.26 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
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3.77 avg rating — 670 ratings
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This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
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4.18 avg rating — 4,319 ratings
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
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4.32 avg rating — 254 ratings
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
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4.22 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War
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3.81 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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4.09 avg rating — 7,962 ratings
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The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
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4.28 avg rating — 85 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Education of a General: 1880-1939
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4.28 avg rating — 99 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory: 1943-1945
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4.32 avg rating — 68 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope: 1939-1942
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4.44 avg rating — 72 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Statesman: 1945-1959
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4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century – An Acclaimed Analysis by Distinguished Historian Alistair Horne
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3.98 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
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4.08 avg rating — 65,083 ratings
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Memoirs and Selected Letters
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4.09 avg rating — 3,284 ratings
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A Message to Garcia
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3.76 avg rating — 3,743 ratings
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A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
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4.06 avg rating — 863 ratings
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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3.69 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
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3.98 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
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4.14 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
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Thunderbolt- From the Battle of the Bulge to Vietnam and Beyond: General Creighton Abrams and The Army of His Times
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4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
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4.04 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
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4.33 avg rating — 1,765 ratings
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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy
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3.99 avg rating — 775 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.97 avg rating — 919 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.94 avg rating — 576,820 ratings
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Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War
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4.20 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Campaigns of Napoleon
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4.53 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Civil War Command And Strategy: The Process Of Victory And Defeat
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3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Frederick The Great On The Art Of War
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3.77 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
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3.93 avg rating — 239 ratings
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History of the United States Army
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War
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4.08 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Infantry in Battle
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, and Theory (Battles and Campaigns Series)
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3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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4.03 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
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3.97 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought
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4.11 avg rating — 318 ratings
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On War
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3.96 avg rating — 14,619 ratings
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Reconsidering the American Way of War: US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan
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3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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