Deterrence (Strategy)

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• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Can Iraq Be Deterred From Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Naval Postgraduate School master's thesis, 1997), by Michael T. Klemick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958), by Albert J. Wohlstetter (HTML at rand.org)
• Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information Warfare and Deterrence, by Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes (HTML at fas.org)
• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal (c1980), by Gene Sharp (PDF with commentary at aeinstein.org)
• Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), by Albert J. Wohlstetter and Roberta Wohlstetter, ed. by Robert Zarate and Henry D. Sokolski (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence, by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at gpo.gov)

• Selection and Use of Strategic Air Bases (second printing, 1962), by Albert J. Wohlstetter, Fred Hoffman, R. J. Lutz, and Henry S. Rowen (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Inside the Cold War: A Cold Warrior's Reflections (1999), by Chris Adams (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Inside the Cold War: A Cold Warrior's Reflections (1999), by Chris Adams (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation (1998), by Mark David Mandeles (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence, by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), by Bernard Brodie (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at gpo.gov)

• Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (2000), by Donald Kagan, Gary Schmitt, and Thomas Donnelly (PDF at newamericancentury.org)

• Firepower in Limited War (second printing, 1993), by Robert H. Scales (page images at Google)

• America and the New World-State: A Plea for American Leadership in International Organization (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Campus Strikes Against War (New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1935), by Joseph P. Lash (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Militarism, by Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (HTML at BYU)
• Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women (London: Allen and Unwin, 1915), by C. K. Ogden and Mary Sargant Florence (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists (revised edition, 1999), by David R. Mets (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat, by John A. Warden (HTML at af.mil)
• Istanbul Summit Reader's Guide (2004), by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (PDF at NATO)
• Responsibility of Command: How UN and NATO Commanders Influenced Airpower over Bosnia (2003), by Mark A. Bucknam (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The War of Steel and Gold: A Study of the Armed Peace (10th edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1918), by Henry Noel Brailsford (HTML at BYU)

• The Road to Total War (c1969), by Frederick M. Sallagar (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1991), ed. by Ronald F. Bellamy and Russ Zajtchuk (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Future War, Future Battlespace: The Strategic Role of American Landpower (2003), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen (PDF with commentary at army.mil)

• China Debates the Future Security Environment (2000), by Michael Pillsbury (HTML at fas.org)
• Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), ed. by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (PDF page images at ndu.edu)
• Strategic Trends in China (1998), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and Ronald N. Montaperto (HTML at gpo.gov)

• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at ndu.edu)

• India's Ad Hoc Arsenal: Direction or Drift in Defence Policy? (1994), by Chris Smith (PDF at sipri.org)

• The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction Report to the President of the United States (2005), by United States Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (PDF and HTML at wmd.gov)
• Efforts to Determine the Status of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, January 28, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, contrib. by David Kay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs (2002), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (HTML and PDF at cia.gov)
• Putting Noncombatants at Risk: Saddam's Use of "Human Shields" (January 2003), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (illustrated HTML at cia.gov)

• The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998), by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller (PDF files at rand.org)

• Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life (2007), by Valerie Morse (PDF at Rebel Press)

• The Security of Pakistan: A Trip Report (RAND note N-1584-RC, 1980), by Francis Fukuyama (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• South African Army Vision 2020: Security Challenges Shaping the Future South African Army (2007), ed. by Len Le Roux (PDF in South Africa)

• The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (1996), ed. by Lester W. Grau (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Libyan-Sponsored Terrorism: A Dilemma for Policymakers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Nature and Extent of Libya's Direct Involvement in International Terrorism, February 19, 1986 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soviet Civil-Military Relations and the Power Projection Mission (1987), by Francis Fukuyama (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (PDF at af.mil)
• After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• America in the Third World: Strategic Alternatives and Military Implications (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• The American Army in the Balkans: Strategic Alternatives and Implications (2001), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems (1995), by Douglas V. Johnson and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• American Military Power: Future Needs, Future Choices (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• American Strategy: Issues and Alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy: Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts (2001), by Steven Metz and Douglas V. Johnson (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• The Big Three: Our Greatest Security Risks and How to Address Them (1999), by Richard Danzig (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated? (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1998), by Lloyd J. Matthews (PDF at gpo.gov)
• Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War (2000), by Daniel Byman and Matthew C. Waxman (PDF files at rand.org)
• Controlling Threats to Nuclear Security: A Holistic Model (1997), by James L. Ford and C. Richard Schuller (page images at Google)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Countering the New Terrorism (1999), by Ian O. Lesser, Bruce Hoffman, John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt, Michelle Zanini, and Brian Michael Jenkins (PDF files at rand.org)
• Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability (1995), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Disaster and Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Rwanda (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Future War, Future Battlespace: The Strategic Role of American Landpower (2003), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Generals Over the White House (1980), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at gpo.gov)
• Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force, by Robert Frank Futrell
  • Volume I (1907-1960): PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume II (1961-1984): PDF with commentary at Air University Press
• Imposing International Sanctions: Legal Aspects and Enforcement by the Military (1997), by Richard E. Hull (HTML at ndu.edu)
• In Irons: U.S. Military Might in the New Century (1995), by Harlan Ullman (page images at Google)
• Information Warfare and Deterrence, by Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes (HTML at fas.org)
• Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990, by Michael McClintock (HTML at statecraft.org)
• The Iraq Study Group Report (2006), by Iraq Study Group, contrib. by James Addison Baker and Lee Hamilton (PDF at gpo.gov)
• Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy (2006), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Learning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces, by Kenneth Earl Hamburger (HTML at US Army CMH)
• Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems (1988), by Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Middle East Security Issues in the Shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation (1999), ed. by Barry R. Schneider (PDF at af.mil)
• The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision (1995), by Don M. Snider (PDF at carlisle-www.army.mil)
• A National Security Strategy for a Global Age (December 2000), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at af.mil)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (May 1997), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at nara.gov)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (October 1998), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF and partial HTML at nara.gov)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (December 1999), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF and partial HTML at fas.org)
• A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement (February 1996), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at fas.org)
• National Security Strategy of the United States (August 1991), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at fas.org)
• The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at archives.gov)
• The Neutron Bomb (c1982), by Michael A. Aquino (PDF at xeper.org)
• Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts (1998), by Douglas C. Lovelace and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment (1994), ed. by S. Nelson Drew, contrib. by Paul H. Nitze (page images at Google)
• Political Warfare and Psychological Operations: Rethinking the US Approach (1989), ed. by Frank R. Barnett and Carnes Lord (page images at Google)
• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at ndu.edu)
• QDR 2001: Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security, ed. by Michèle A. Flournoy (page images at Google)
• Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (2000), by Donald Kagan, Gary Schmitt, and Thomas Donnelly (PDF at newamericancentury.org)
• Refining American Strategy in Africa (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (with support plan for implementation, and related documents; 2010), by United States Department of Defense (PDF files with commentary at defense.gov)
• Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (1999), by United States House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (HTML and PDF files at house.gov)
• The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War (1994), by Steven Metz and James Kievit (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Strategic Horizons: The Military Implications of Alternative Futures (1997), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Strategy and the Revolution in Military Affairs: From Theory to Policy (1995), by Steven Metz and James Kievit (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), by Bernard Brodie (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• The US Air Force After Vietnam: Postwar Challenges and Potential for Responses (1988), by Donald J. Mrozek (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century: A Fresh Look at National Strategy and Requirements (1998), by Center for Counterproliferation Research and Center for Global Security Research. (page images at Google)
• U.S. Policy Options in Central America (CANF pamphlet #4; Washington: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Eduardo Ulibarri (multiple formats at archive.org)

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