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On War
Carl von Clausewitz
The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
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The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
Rupert Smith
Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
Stephen Biddle
Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma
Alice Hill
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare
Colin S Gray
War: The Lethal Custom
Gwynne Dwyer
Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle
Ardant du Picq
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Battle: A History of Combat and Culture
John A Lynn
Military Orientalism: Eastern War Through Western Eyes
Patrick Porter
War and the Cultural Turn
Jeremy Black
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behaviours
Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
Eliot Cohen and John Gooch
Black Hawk Down
Mark Bowden
Red Coat Green Machine: Continuity and Change in the British
Army 1700 to 2000
Charles Kirke
Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the US Army
1989–2005
John Sloan Brown
The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class
of 1966
Rick Atkinson
The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
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The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States and War
Williamson Murray, Alvin Bernstein and MacGregor Knox
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
Edward N Luttwak
Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Peter Paret
Elements of Military Strategy: An Historical Approach
Archer Jones
Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy
Steven Metz
Military Strategy: The Politics and Technique of War
John Stone
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the
Present
Beatrice Heuser
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War
Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey
‘An Imperfect Jewel: Military Theory and the Military Profession’
Harold R Winton
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Lifeblood of War: Logistics in Armed Conflict
Julian Thompson
Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the
Gulf War
William G Pagonis
Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation
George C Thorpe
Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages
to the Present
John A Lynn
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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
Eliot A Cohen
Honorable Warrior: General Harold K Johnson and the Ethics of Command
Lewis J Sorley
Crisis in Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat, 1941–1943
David Horner
Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War
Garth Pratten
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
Gary W Gallagher
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
Basil H Liddell Hart
War Diaries 1939–1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke
Alex Danchev and Dan Todman
Strategic Commander: General Sir John Wilton and Australia’s Asian Wars
David Horner
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
HR McMaster
Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era
Robert Buzzanco
Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
Lewis Sorley
Not a Gentleman’s War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War
Ron Milam
All Day Long the Noise of Battle
Gerard Windsor
Command Culture: Officer Education in the US Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901–1940
Jorg Muth
Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green
Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
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Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War
Martin S Alexander
The Intelligence Revolution: An Historical Perspective
Lieutenant Colonel Walter T Hitchcock
Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History
Keith Neilson and BJC McKercher
Forewarned Forearmed: Australian Specialist Intelligence Support in South Vietnam, 1966–1971
Blair Tidey
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Just and Unjust Wars
Michael Walzer
The Morality of War
Brian Orend
Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict
Michael L Gross
New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
Paolo Tripodi and Jessica Wolfendale
Ethics, Law and Military Operations
David Whetham
The Code of the Warrior
Shannon French
Soldier’s Conscience: The Ethical Complexity of Vietnam Service
Peter Rose
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
PW Singer
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the
Twenty-First Century
PW Singer
Military Ethics: An Introduction with Case Studies
Stephen Coleman
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The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050
MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray
Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
Stephen Peter Rosen
Challenge of Change: Military Institutions and New Realities,
1918–1941
Harold R Winton and David R Mets
A History of Innovation: US Army Adaptation in War and Peace
Jon T Hoffman
Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
Williamson Murray and Allan R Millett
Military Adaptation in War: With Fear of Change
Williamson Murray
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Sea Soldiers in the Cold War: Amphibious Warfare, 1945–1991
JH Alexander and ML Bartlett
Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare
ML Bartlett
The Changing Face of Maritime Power
A Dorman, ML Smith and MRH Uttley
Amphibious Warfare 1000–1700
M Fissel and D Trim
Amphibious Assault: Manoeuvre from the Sea. From Gallipoli to the Gulf — A Definitive Analysis
T Lovering
The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy 1945–56
Ian Speller
Amphibious Warfare: Strategy and Tactics. The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations in the 20th Century
Ian Speller and Christopher Tuck
Strength Through Diversity: The Combined Naval Role in Operation Stabilise
David Stevens
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Charting the Pathway to OMFTS: A Historical Assessment of Amphibious Operations from 1941 to the Present
Carter Malkasian
(essay)
Manoeuvring in the littoral: prospects for the Australian Army’s future role’ in Projecting Force: The Australian Army and Maritime Strategy
Albert Palazzo et al (ed)
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Not as a Duty Only: An Infantry Man’s War
HB ‘Jo’ Gullett
With a Machine Gun to Cambrai: The Tale of a Young Tommy in Kitchener’s Army, 1914–1918
George Coppard
Defeat into Victory
Field Marshal Sir William Slim
Fear Drive My Feet
Peter Ryan
A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S Grant
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The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
Nicholas Fearn
Serious Creativity
Edward De Bono
A Whack on the Side of the Head—How you can be more creative
Roger von Oech
The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession
Williamson Murray and Richard Sinnreich
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Deliver us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of
Endless Conflict
William Shawcross
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
Edward N Luttwak
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
Phillip Bobbit
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the
Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Gilles Kepel
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America,
1500–2000
Fred Anderson and Andrew Clayton
The British Way in Counter-insurgency 1945–1967
David French
Zombie Myths of Australian Military History
Craig Stockings
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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
Patrick O’Donnell
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E Ricks
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006–2008
Thomas E Ricks
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power
Max Boot
Fighting the War on Terror: A Counterinsurgency Strategy
James Corum
Revolt on the Tigris: The Al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq
Mark Hetherington
Reconstructing Iraq: Regime Change, Jay Garner, and the ORHA Story
Gordon W Rudd
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979–1989
Rodric Braithwaite
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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Starship Troopers
Robert A Heinlein
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Fields of Fire
James Webb
The Good Soldier
Ford Maddox Ford
Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Paths of Glory
Humphrey Cobb
The Centurions
Jean Larteguy
The Winds of War / War and Remembrance
Herman Wouk
The Thin Red Line
James Jones
Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy
Fatherland
Robert Harris
The Regeneration Trilogy
Pat Barker
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The Matthew Hervey series
Allan Mallinson
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Bomber
Len Deighton
The Sharpe Books
Bernard Cornwall
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Eagle in the Snow
Wallace Bream
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Bugles and a Tiger
John Masters
The Field Marshal’s Memoirs
John Masters
Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes
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