Theory, Nature, and History of War

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The Art of War

Author: Sun-Tzu
Date of Publication: Jan 2001
Overview: This new translation of The Art of War offers a deeper view of victory--the "taking of the whole."

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On Infantry

Author: English and Gudmundsson
Date of Publication: November 1994
Overview: Tells the story of infantry in the 20th century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time.

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The Face of Battle

Author: Keegan
Date of Publication: July 1995
Overview: John Keegan illuminates the day to day experiences of common soldiers in several historic battles. For examples, Keegan selects Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1815, and the Somme in 1916. What is common about them, what is different? Agincourt was hand-to-hand combat, thrust and cut--a fearful and personal encounter. At Waterloo, 400 years later, the battle was still largely personal.  The book closes Somme. For him it stands as the distillation of wars in the industrial age: long-distance killing of faceless men by others who merely activate the instruments of destruction.

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Maneuver Warfare:  An Anthology

Author: Hooker
Date of Publication: January 1994
Overview: America's finest military minds explore the idea of maneuver-based warfare in this energetic and lively debate.

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Gallipoli

Author: Moorehead
Date of Publication: July 1998
Overview: The Allied campaign against Gallipoli began in 1915 when the Turks went into World War I on Germany's side. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty in the British War Cabinet, conceived the plan of smashing through the Dardanelle's with a fleet of old battleships and reopening the straits to Russian shipping.  For years the Turks had been beaten in every battle they fought, and the project stood a reasonable chance of success.  But what happened in the next nine months was a nightmare of lost opportunities, confused planning, and military incompetence.

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For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America

Author: Millett & Maslowski
Date of Publication: September 1994
Overview: When most history books just look at the battle statistics and "who did what," Maslowski and Millet's book goes further to illustrate the influence that politicians had on the military establishment.

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On War

Author:  Clausewitz
Date of Publication: June 1993
Overview: On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.

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Knight's Cross - A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Author: Fraser
Date of Publication: January 1995
Overview: An in-depth biography of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel written with the cooperation of Rommel's son.

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The Enlightened Soldier

Author: White
Date of Publication: January 1989
Overview: This volume explores the essence of German military professionalism as exemplified by the 19th-century Prussian German Staff. The study focuses on the most important Prussian military reformer--Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, who in 1801 founded the Militarische Gesellschaft (Military Society) in Berlin. The Gesellschaft became the focal point for the transformation of the Prussian army from a robotic war machine into a modern fighting force that was instrumental in defeating Napoleon in 1813 and in 1815.

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Race to the Swift - Thoughts on Twenty-First Century Warfare

Author: Simpkin
Date of Publication: Revised edition September 1998
Overview: Brigadier Simpkin in this work takes us to the cutting edge of battle asking for 3-D maneuver-capable "air mechanized" forces.

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Military Misfortunes - The Anatomy of Failure in War

Author: Cohan
Date of Publication: May 1991
Overview: Rejecting accepted theories for unexpected military disasters, the authors brilliantly analyze disasters of great magnitude. They assert that military misfortune turns not on individual or collective failure but is rooted in the nature of the complex interconnections between men, systems, and organizations. Ingram.

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What are Generals Made of?

Author: Newman
Date of Publication: Out of Print.

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Generalship, It's Diseases and their Cures

Author: Fuller
Date of Publication: Out of Print.

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