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• Combat
• Moral and ethical aspects

• Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Seumas Miller (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

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

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

• Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; Falls Church, VA: Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army; Fort Detrick, MD: Borden Institute, 2011), ed. by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Psychiatric Experiences of the Eighth Air Force: First Year of Combat (July 4, 1942-July 4, 1943) (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1944), by Donald W. Hastings, David G. Wright, and Bernard C. Glueck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cohesion: The Human Element in Combat (4th printing, 1993), by William Darryl Henderson (PDF files at af.mil)

• Leaders' Manual for Combat Stress Control (FM 22-51, 1994), by United States Army (HTML at army.mil)

• Ophthalmic Care of the Combat Casualty (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2003), ed. by Allen B. Thach (PDF files at Borden Institute)

• Amicicide: The Problem of Friendly Fire in Modern War (Combat Studies Institute research survey #1; 1982), by Charles R. Shrader (PDF at army.mil)

• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battles That Changed History (c1956), by Fletcher Pratt (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Decisive Battles of Modern Times (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1923), by F. E. Whitton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decisive Battles of the World (with additioal chapters on Gettysburg and Sedan; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Edward Shepherd Creasy, contrib. by Rossiter Johnson and Frank Huntington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decisive Battles of the World (revised edition; "World's Great Classics" series; New York: The Colonial Press, c1899), by Edward Shepherd Creasy and John Gilmer Speed
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decisive Battles of the World (revised edition; "World's Great Classics" series; New York: The Colonial Press, c1900), by Edward Shepherd Creasy and John Gilmer Speed
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo, by Edward Shepherd Creasy (Gutenberg text)
• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, From Marathon to Waterloo (New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1882), by Edward Shepherd Creasy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, From Marathon to Waterloo (New York: W. L. Allison, 1886), by Edward Shepherd Creasy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle (1921), by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq, trans. by John N. Greely and Robert C. Cotton (Gutenberg text)

• The Decisive Battles of India, From 1746 to 1849 Inclusive (second edition; London, W. H. Allen and Co., 1885), by G. B. Malleson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Battles of New York: Battles and Raids in the Province and State of New York, 1609-1814 (1974), by John C. Devendorf (HTML at threerivershmh.com)

• The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-1933 (originally published 1925; reprinted Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, ca. 2001), by Hector C. Bywater (multiple formats at Google)
• The Crystal Crypt (as published in Planet Stories, January 1954), by Philip K. Dick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tunnel Thru the Air: or, Looking Back From 1940 (New York: Financial Guardian Pub. Co., c1927), by William D. Gann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Battle for the Pacific; and Other Adventures at Sea (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1908), contrib. by Rowan Stevens, Yates Sterling, William J. Henderson, George Ethelbert Walsh, Kirk Munroe, Frank H. Spearman, Harold Martin, Owen Hall, and Julian Ralph (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Battle of Dorking, by George Tomkyns Chesney (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Battle of Dorking (with a contextual introduction; London: G. Richards, 1914), by George Tomkyns Chesney, contrib. by G. H. Powell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Battle of the Swash and the Capture of Canada (New York: C. T. Dillingham, c1888), by Samuel Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Berlin-Bagdad: Das Deutsche Weltreich im Zeitalter der Luftschiffahrt, 1910-1931 (in German; Stuttgart and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1907), by Rudolf Emil Martin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Coming Conflict of Nations, or, The Japanese-American War: A Narrative (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, c1909), by Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Coming Conquest of England, by August Niemann, trans. by John Henry Freese (Gutenberg text)
• The Conquest of America: A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A., 1921 A.D. (1916), by Cleveland Moffett (Gutenberg text)
• Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg (6th edition, in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: J. G. Cotta, 1913), by Friedrich von Bernhardi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Final War (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896), by Louis Tracy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Four Days War, by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
• Germany and the Next War (1912), by Friedrich von Bernhardi, trans. by Allen H. Powles (Gutenberg text)
• The Great Naval War of 1887 (second edition; London: Hatchards, ca. 1887), by W. Laird Clowes (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Great War of 189-: A Forecast (second edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1895), by P. H. Colomb, John Frederick Maurice, F. N. Maude, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, David Christie Murray, and Frank Scudamore, illust. by Frederic Villiers
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hindenburg's March into London, Being a Translation From the German Original (London: John Long, 1916), by Paul Georg Münch, ed. by L. G. Redmond-Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How John Bull Lost London: or, The Capture of the Channel Tunnel (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882), by Grip
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Great Naval War: An Historical Retrospect (dated in an imaginary 1930, by "A. Nelson Seaforth"; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by George Sydenham Clarke, Baron Sydenham of Combe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prelude in Prague, by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
• The Yellow Danger (second edition; London: Grant Richards, 1898), by M. P. Shiel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Yellow Peril in Action: A Possible Chapter in History, Dedicated to the Men Who Train and Direct the Men Behind the Guns (San Francisco: Britton and Rey, printers, 1907), by Marsden Manson (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the Battle of Dorking: or, What Became of the Invaders! (London: G. Maddick, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Battle Off Worthing: Why the Invaders Never Got to Dorking; A Prophecy, by a Captain of the Royal Navy (London: London Literary Society, 1887)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Captain of the "Mary Rose": A Tale of To-Morrow (third edition; London: Tower, 1894), by W. Laird Clowes, illust. by Edoardo Martino and Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Red Dragon: or, The Flaming Devil of the Orient (published under "Lord Chester" pen name; Estero, FL: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1909), by Koresh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Armada: A Chapter of Future History, Being a Reply to The German Conquest of England in 1875, and Battle of Dorking (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, ca. 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Happened After the Battle of Dorking (attributed to Sone by Halkett and Laing; New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1871), by Charles John Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Oblique Approach (included on a Baen CD image), by David Drake and Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 191 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 192 MB

• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England (2 volumes (American and British imprints), 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson, contrib. by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical, With Explanatory Plates (third edition; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by John Clerk, contrib. by Lord Rodney (page images at HathiTrust)
• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.