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• Conflict, Culture, and History: Regional Dimensions (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1992), by Stephen Blank, Lawrence E. Grinter, K. P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, and Bynum E. Weathers (PDF at Air University Press)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1902), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at Google)
• The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations (Boston: The Beacon Press, c1915), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2017), by Hiro Saito (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Weapons Systems and Political Stability: A History (c1983), by Carroll Quigley (PDF at carrollquigley.net)

• Carry On -- Whither? (Indianapolis, IN: National Enquirer, 1919), by George Eames Barstow (page images here at Penn)

• War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Steven Heydemann (HTML at UC Press)

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

• "Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged": Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2024), by Nadia Hardman
  • illustrated HTML at hrw.org
  • PDF at hrw.org

• 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)

• Cohesion: The Human Element in Combat (4th printing, 1993), by William Darryl Henderson (PDF files at af.mil)

• Aperçu Général des Principales Mesures Prises pour Améliorer le Bien-être Matériel et Moral du Soldat Belge (In French; Le Havre: Edition du "Bureau Documentaire Belge", 1918), by Belgium. Armeé (page images here at Penn)

• Humanitarian and Peace Operations: NGOs and the Military in the Interagency Process (1996), by Lisa Witzig Davidson, Margaret Daly Hayes, and James J. Landon (PDF at dodccrp.org)

• Guarding the Guardians: Parliamentary Oversight and Civil-Military Relations: The Challenges for SADC (2004), ed. by Len Le Roux, Martin Revai Rupiya, and Naison Ngoma (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Guarding the Guardians: Parliamentary Oversight and Civil-Military Relations: The Challenges for SADC (2004), ed. by Len Le Roux, Martin Revai Rupiya, and Naison Ngoma (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The People's Liberation Army and China in Transition (2002), ed. by Stephen J. Flanagan and Michael E. Marti (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Prague Summit and NATO's Transformation: A Reader's Guide (2003), by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (PDF at NATO)

• Special Operations in US Strategy (1984), ed. by Frank R. Barnett, B. Hugh Tovar, and Richard H. Shultz (page images at Google)
• The Challenge of Change and Conflict in American Society (1975), by League for Industrial Democracy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strength Through Cooperation: Military Forces in the Asia-Pacific Region, ed. by Frances Omori and Mary A. Sommerville (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• The Guilt of the German Army (New York: Macmillan, 1942), by John H. E. Fried (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284, by James F. Powers (PDF files at Libro)

• A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284, by James F. Powers (PDF files at Libro)

• Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2010), ed. by James E. Parco and David A. Levy (PDF and Mobipocket with commentary at Air University Press)
• The Eagle's Talons: The American Experience at War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Warriors and Politicians: US Civil-Military Relations Under Stress (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), by Charles A. Stevenson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems (1995), by Douglas V. Johnson and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Generals Over the White House (1980), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Interagency Fratricide: Policy Failures in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2004), by Vicki J. Rast (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• 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)

• Universal Military Training and Democracy (Washington: American Union Against Militarism, ca. 1917), by George William Nasmyth (page images here at Penn)
• Universal Military Training: Henry L. West of the National Security League vs. Charles T. Hallinan of the American Union Against Militarism (Washington: Reprinted by the American Union Against Militarism, 1919), by Henry Litchfield West and Charles T. Hallinan (page images here at Penn)

• Der Geist des Militarismus (in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1915), by Nahum Goldmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Militarism, by Karl Liebknecht (HTML at BYU)
• Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction (London: Swarthmore Press, ca. 1919), by John Langdon-Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Campus Strikes Against War (New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1935), by Joseph P. Lash (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• The American Peace Movements (electronic edition, 2002), by David Adams (HTML at culture-of-peace.info)
• An Alternative to War (New York: Council on Religion and International Affairs, c1963), by Gordon C. Zahn (page images at flvc.org)
• The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism (Chicago: Student Peace Union, ca. 1961), by Philip G. Altbach (page images at Pitt)
• Unto What End? (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1914), by B. Langdon-Davies (page images here at Penn)
• Agents of Peace (New York: Hour Publishers, ca. 1951), by Albert Eugene Kahn (page images at flvc.org)
• A Brief Outline of the Nature and Aims of Pacifism (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), by Alfred H. Fried, trans. by John Richard Mez (page images here at Penn)
• A Dozen Truths About Pacifism (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), by Alfred H. Fried, trans. by John Richard Mez (page images here at Penn)

• From the Mind to the Feet: Assessing the Perception-to-Intent-to-Action Dynamic (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2011), ed. by Lawrence A. Kuznar, Allison Astorino-Courtois, and Sarah Canna (page images at HathiTrust)

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