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• The Balance of Tomorrow (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1945), by Robert Strausz-Hupé (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Extracts, Describing the Ancient Manner of Placing the Kingdom in Military Array; The Various Modes of Defence Adopted for its Safety in Periods of Danger; and The Evidence of Foreigners as to the National Character and Personal Bravery of the English (London: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1803), ed. by William Gunn (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Futility of "Preparedness" as the Cartoonists See it (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), contrib. by Charles Edward Jefferson (page images here at Penn)

• Defence and Diplomacy: In Pursuit of National Security (issues up to previous year free to read online; New Delhi: Centre for Air Power Studies, 2011-) (partial serial archives)

• We Are Unprepared (New York: National Security League, ca. 1915), by National Security League (page images here at Penn)

• Technology and Military Doctrine: Essays on a Challenging Relationship (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by I. B. Holley
  • PDF at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• In Service to the Nation: Air Force Research Institute Strategic Concept for 2018-2023 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2009), by John Albert Shaud (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Thunder and Lightning: Desert Storm and the Airpower Debates (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995), by Edward C. Mann (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Aerospace Power: The Case for Indivisible Application (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by Grover E. Myers
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Air Force 2025: Final Report, by United States Air Force (PDF files at af.mil)
• 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)

• The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1992), ed. by Richard H. Shultz and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2001), by Phillip S. Meilinger
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Airpower and Ground Armies: Essays on the Evolution of Anglo-American Air Doctrine, 1940-1943 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1998), ed. by Daniel R. Mortensen (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Architects of American Air Supremacy: Gen. Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), by Dik A. Daso (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press

• Redesigning Defense: Planning the Transition to the Future U.S. Defense Industrial Base (OTA-ISC-500; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Distribution of Labor In War (1918), by Edward Gray (page images here at Penn)

• The Big "L": American Logistics in World War II (1997), ed. by Alan L. Gropman (HTML at Ibiblio)

• U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #33; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2008), ed. by John B. Hattendorf and Peter M. Swartz (PDF at Ibiblio)
• U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #30; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2007), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)
• U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #26; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2006), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)

• Airpower in Three Wars (reprint edition; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by William W. Momyer
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • 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)
• Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer (2001), by Clayton K. S. Chun
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• 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)
• Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David R. Mets
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Air Power and Maneuver Warfare (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1994), by Martin Van Creveld, Kenneth S. Brower, and Steven L. Canby (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

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

• The Quest for Relevant Air Power: Continental European Responses to the Air Power Challenges of the Post-Cold War Era (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2011), by Christian F. Anrig
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Responsibility of Command: How UN and NATO Commanders Influenced Airpower over Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2003), by Mark A. Bucknam
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
• The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Japan's Influence on American Naval Power, 1897-1917 (University of California Publications in History v36; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947), by Outten Jones Clinard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1905), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)

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