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A Call to Greatness: Challenging our Next President
by David M. Abshire
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult And the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
by Charles Allen
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
by Graham Allison
Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-Salik
by Ahmad ibn Naqib Al-Misri
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
by Fred Anderson
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
The Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong
War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History
by Robert B. Asprey
The Day of Battle : The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
by Rick Atkinson
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
by Andrew J. Bacevich
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
by David M. Barrett
Adjust Fire: Transforming to Win in Iraq
by Michael A. Baumann
Cheating and Deception
by J. Bowyer Bell
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
by Christopher Bellamy
Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg
Mars Learning: The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940
by Keith B. Bickel
The Sibling Society
by Robert Bly
The Shield of Achilles
by Philip Bobbitt
Terror and Consent: The Wars of the Twenty-first Century
by Philip Bobbitt
The French Revolution & the Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
by Max Boot
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
by Piers Brendon
The Anatomy of Revolution
by Crane Brinton
War and Politics
by Bernard Brodie
The Story of Maps
by Lloyd A. Brown
The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis: A RAND Corporation Research Study (Rand Corporation Research Study)
by Carl Builder
The Ugly American
by Eugene Burdick
Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
by C. E. Callwell
On War
by Carl Von Clausewitz
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
by Eliot A. Cohen
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
Military Geography: For Professionals and the Public (Association of the United States Army)
by John M. Collins
Yeltsin: A Political Life
by Timothy J. Colton
Forged in Fire: Strategy and Decisions in the Airwar over Europe 1940-1945
by Dewitt S. Copp
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
Space Wars
by Michael Coumatos
The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
by Gordon Alexander Craig
Ending Terrorism: A Strategy for Defeating Al-Qaeda
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
by Dietrich Dörner
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Roméo Dallaire
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Customary International Humanitarian Law Boxed Set of 3 Hardback Books
by Louise Doswald-Beck
The Political Economy of Terrorism
by Walter Enders
The Enchiridion
by Epictetus
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by T.R. Fehrenbach
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
by Douglas J. Feith
The Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad
by Sean Michael Flynn
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The General
by C.S. Forester
The Nuclear Jihadist
by Douglas Frantz
Quartered Safe Out There: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman on the March (The Flashman Papers, #12)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman and the Tiger (The Flashman Papers, #11)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman and the Redskins (The Flashman Papers, #7)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (The Flashman Papers, #10)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman and the Dragon (The Flashman Papers, #8)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman and the Mountain of Light (The Flashman Papers, #9)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman's Lady (The Flashman Papers, #6)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers, #3)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2)
by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by George MacDonald Fraser
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
by David Galula
Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 19462005
by Douglas F. Garthoff
War in Human Civilization
by Azar Gat
Fixing Failed States : A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
by Ashraf Ghani
Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael R. Gordon
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
by Colin S. Gray
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Phoenix Press)
by Colin S. Gray
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18
by Paddy Griffith
Imperial Policing
by Charles W. Gwynn
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals
by David Halberstam
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
by Thomas X. Hammes
Bandit Country
by Toby Harnden
The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West
by Lee Harris
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
by Lawrence E. Harrison
Strategy
by B.H. Liddell Hart
Men at War: Men at War
by Ernest Hemingway
A Bell for Adano
by John Hersey
Destroyer Captain
by Roger Hill
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (The Politics of the international economy)
by Alberto Hirschman
The Dark Side of the Force: Economic Foundations of Conflict Theory
by Jack Hirshleifer
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
by Eric Hoffer
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)
by Alistair Horne
Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface
by Donald L. Horowitz
Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon (Texas a & M University Military History Series)
by James R. Locher III
Every War Must End (Columbia Classics)
by Fred Charles Ikle
The Professional Soldier
by Morris Janowitz
SAS Secret War
by Tony Jeapes
Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Center for International Affairs, Harvard University)
by Robert Jervis
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
Command Missions: A Personal Story
by Lucian K. Truscott Jr.
The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Vintage)
by Robert Kagan
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
by Fred Kaplan
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea & on the Ground
by Robert D. Kaplan
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
by Robert D. Kaplan
Intelligence in War: The value--and limitations--of what the military can learn about the enemy
by John Keegan
The Mask of Command
by John Keegan
General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War (USAF Warrior Studies)
by George C. Kenney
Fateful Choices
by Ian Kershaw
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
by MacGregor Knox
Bureaucracy does its thing: institutional constraints on U.S. -GVN performance in Vietnam
by Robert W. Komer
Warday
by James W. Kunetka
The Centurions
by Jean Larteguy
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
by T.E. Lawrence
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
China Hands: Nine Decades Of Adventure, Espionage, And Diplomacy In Asia
by James R. Lilley
The Maneuver Warfare Handbook
by William S. Lind
The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
by Brian McAllister Linn
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince (Oxford World's Classics)
by Niccolò Machiavelli
The War for America, 1775-1783
by Piers Mackesy
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
by Kishore Mahbubani
The Quranic Concept of War
by S.K. Malik
Bugles and a Tiger (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
by John Masters
"Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy (Galaxy Books)
by Ernest R. May
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776
by Walter A. McDougall
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
by James M. McPherson
Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy
by Steven Metz
Politics Among Nations
by Hans J. Morgenthau
Apollo: The Race To The Moon
by Charles Murray
Once An Eagle
by Anton Myrer
Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management (Series in Psychosocial Stress)
by William P. Nash
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
by Vali Nasr
In Pursuit of Military Excellence: The Evolution of Operational Theory (Cummings Center Series)
by Shimon Naveh
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
by Richard E. Neustadt
Thinking In Time : The Uses Of History For Decision Makers
by Richard E. Neustadt
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why
by Richard E. Nisbett
The Marauders
by Charlton Ogburn
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
by Lynne Olson
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
by Jonathan Parshall
Air Force Spoken Here: General Ira Eaker and the Command of the Air
by James Parton
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
by Fred Pearce
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
by Allan Pease
Partners in Command: George Marshall & Dwight Eisenhower in War & Peace
by Mark Perry
Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage
by Joseph E. Persico
Killing Rommel
by Steven Pressfield
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
by Steven Pressfield
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Milestones
by Sayyid Qutb
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
Operational Law Handbook 2006
by John Rawcliffe
Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win
by Jeffrey Record
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
by Thomas E. Ricks
Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
by John Robb
Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
by Philip Carl Salzman
America's Forgotten Wars: The Counterrevolutionary Past and Lessons for the Future (Contributions in Military Studies)
by Sam C. Sarkesian
Strategic Challenges: America's Global Security Agenda (National Defense University)
by James A. Schear
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by Thomas C. Schelling
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
by Michael Scheuer
Strategy, Politics & Defense Budgets (Institute of War & Peace Studies)
by Warner R. Schilling
Children at War
by P.W. Singer
The Idea that Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Defeat Into Victory
by William Slim
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
by Gene Smith
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
by Rupert Smith
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
by Mark Steyn
The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II
by Ulrich Straus
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada
by Jamie Tarabay
Fix Bayonets!
by John W. Thomason
Lone Star Preacher: Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M.E. Church South Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment Confederate States Prov (Texas Tradition)
by John W., Jr. Thomason
Defeating Communist Insurgency: Experiences from Malaya and Vietnam
by Robert G.K. Thompson
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
The Nightingale's Song
by Robert Timberg
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Prescription For Disaster
by Joseph J. Trento
Constant Bearing - Decreasing Range: The Collision of Public Policy and National Defense
by Skip Vogel
Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War (Maudsley Monographs)
by Simon Wessely
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
by Bing West
The Village
by Bing West
Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam
by Andrew Wheatcroft
The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805
by Charles Edward White
One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (Bluejacket Books Series)
by Sandy Woodward
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (other topics)Milestones (other topics)
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (other topics)
Arms and Influence (other topics)
The Nightingale's Song (other topics)
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bookshelf: warlord-loop-2008
The Warlord Loop’s current reading list features two books apiece that a cross section of 300 cosmopolitan members believe would best enable practitioners at every level to prepare for an uncertain future and concurrently help concerned citizens understand salient issues.
books are listed below by Author, some books were selected multiple times.