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The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.94 — 597,824 ratings — published -500
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,882 ratings — published 1832
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,175 ratings — published 1645
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.84 — 400,840 ratings — published 1513
The 33 Strategies of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,655 ratings — published 2008
Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,150 ratings — published 1941
Strategy: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,138 ratings — published 2013
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,576 ratings — published -411
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,967 ratings — published 1943
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,371 ratings — published 2002
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,307 ratings — published 1890
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,215 ratings — published 1521
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.11 — 317 ratings — published 1992
Napoleon's Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.73 — 580 ratings — published 1993
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to do About It)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.90 — 303 ratings — published 2007
How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.60 — 196 ratings — published 2002
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,828 ratings — published 1971
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.07 — 244,735 ratings — published 1999
Reveille for Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.84 — 600 ratings — published 1946
Infantry Attacks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,595 ratings — published 1937
The Rommel Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,649 ratings — published 1950
Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
by (shelved 3 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.37 — 215 ratings — published 1984
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,689 ratings — published 2017
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.53 — 3,877 ratings — published
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,109 ratings — published 2019
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,643 ratings — published 2004
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,886 ratings — published 1976
Modern Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.03 — 135 ratings — published 1999
Battle Studies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.93 — 134 ratings — published 1880
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (Vintage)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,109 ratings — published 1994
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.23 — 447 ratings — published
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.34 — 162 ratings — published
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,028 ratings — published 2013
The Strategy of Conflict (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.01 — 977 ratings — published 1960
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,038 ratings — published 2013
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,019 ratings — published -50
The Military Institutions of the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.11 — 664 ratings — published 350
Napoleon on the Art of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.38 — 94 ratings — published 1999
Instructions for His Generals (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.69 — 90 ratings — published 1748
The Lost Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.87 — 545 ratings — published 1996
How Great Generals Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.79 — 438 ratings — published 1993
The Future of Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.83 — 183 ratings — published 2015
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.98 — 836 ratings — published 1976
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.97 — 652 ratings — published 2009
Principles of War (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.97 — 324 ratings — published
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.98 — 929 ratings — published 1838
The Age of AI and Our Human Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,685 ratings — published
Battlegrounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,827 ratings — published 2020
The German Generals Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.04 — 891 ratings — published 1948
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as war-strategy)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,533 ratings — published 2014
“If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...”
― On War
― On War
“Watching and waiting for the right moment is an essential component of a long-term strategy. … And sometimes a warning shot, a decisive show of strength, can circumvent the need for a battle at all.”
― An Anonymous Girl
― An Anonymous Girl