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• The Development of Military Night Aviation to 1919 (Maxwell AFL, AL: Air University Press, 1998), by William Edward Fischer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), ed. by Phillip S. Meilinger (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)
• The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by Charles Griffith (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• Mosquitoes to Wolves: The Evolution of the Airborne Forward Air Controller (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2007), by Gary Robert Lester (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Mosquitoes to Wolves: The Evolution of the Airborne Forward Air Controller (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2007), by Gary Robert Lester (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

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• The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat (Washnigton: National Defense University Press, 1988), by John A. Warden (PDF at dtic.mil)
• The Air Force Role in Low-Intensity Conflict (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David J. Dean (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists (revised edition; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), by David R. Mets (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• A-10s Over Kosovo: The Victory of Airpower over a Fielded Army as Told by Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), ed. by Christopher E. Haave and Phil M. Haun
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• U. S. Naval Aviation in the Pacific (1947), by United States Navy
  • PDF at navy.mil
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• An Adaptive Maneuvering Logic Computer Program for the Simulation of One-on-One Air-to-Air Combat (2 volumes; 1975), by George H. Burgin, Lawrence J. Fogel, J. Price Phelps, and A. J. Owens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ilmasota (The War in the Air in Finnish; 1910), by H. G. Wells, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)
• The War in the Air, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• Future War: An Assessment of Aerospace Campaigns in 2010 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996), by Jeffery R. Barnett (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Air University Review (full serial archives)

• Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy (1998), ed. by Zalmay Khalilzad and Ian O. Lesser (PDF files at rand.org)
• Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, c2008), by Brian A. Jackson, Dave Frelinger, Michael Lostumbo, and Robert Button (PDF files at rand.org)

• 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)

• A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Sanford A. Lakoff and Herbert F. York (HTML at UC Press)
• Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Colonize Space! Open the Age of Reason (New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985) (PDF at wlym.com)

• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Setting the Context: Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses and Joint War Fighting in an Uncertain World (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1994), by James R. Brungess
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (photographer died in 1979, but 1942 photo copyrights expired in Canada; c1942), by John Steinbeck, illust. by John Swope (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• History of the 9th Bombardment Group (VH) (1995), ed. by Lawrence S. Smith (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• The War Next Time: Countering Rogue States and Terrorists Armed with Chemical and Biological Weapons (second edition, 2004), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jim A. Davis
  • PDF files at af.mil
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945 (c1983), by F. J. Hatch (PDF in Canada)

• Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1989), 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
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blast Tests of Expedient Shelters in the DICE THROW Event (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1978), by Cresson H. Kearny and Conrad V. Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Fallout Shelter: Snack Bar, Basement Location, Plan D (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Boy Inventors and the Vanishing Gun (New York: Hurst and Co., c1912), by Richard Bonner, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Airpower: Myths and Facts (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by Phillip S. Meilinger (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Israeli Aggression Against the Peaceful Nuclear Installations in Iraq: Statement Made by Dr. Sa'adoun Hammadi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Before the Security Council, 12 June 1981 (Baghdad: Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981), by Sa'dun Hammadi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), by Irving L. Janis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Airpower: Myths and Facts (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by Phillip S. Meilinger (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2008), ed. by Shirley D. Tuorinsky (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1997), ed. by Frederick R. Sidell, Ernest T. Takafuji, and David R. Franz
  • PDF files (except for Chapter 20) at Borden Institute
  • Chapter 20: PDF at dead-planet.net
• The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field (Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1959), by Leo P. Brophy, Wyndham D. Miles, and Rexmond C. Cochrane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War, by Victor Lefebure (Gutenberg text)

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