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• Geschichte der K. K. Österreichischen Armee, ihrer Heranbildung und Organisation, so wie ihrer Schicksale, Thaten und Feldzüge, von der Frühesten bis auf die Jetzige Zeit (4 volumes in 1, in German; Vienna: C. Gerold und Sohn, 1852-54), by Hermann Meynert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (New York: H. Lee and Co., 1878), by Henry Ossian Flipper
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper (Gutenberg text)

• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Eisenhower as Strategist: The Coherent Use of Military Power in War and Peace (1993), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• A War of Their Own: Bombers Over the Southwest Pacific (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2005), by Matthew K. Rodman (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• 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 Big "L": American Logistics in World War II (1997), ed. by Alan L. Gropman (HTML at Ibiblio)

• A War of Their Own: Bombers Over the Southwest Pacific (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2005), by Matthew K. Rodman (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

• 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

• Air Power History (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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 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)

• 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)

• PC Pilot: The Complete Guide to Computer Aviation (1994), by Steve Smith (HTML at flightsimbooks.com)

• 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)

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

• Air Power History (partial serial archives)

• 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

• Airlift Doctrine (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Charles E. Miller
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Sea, Land, and Air Strategy: A Comparison (London: J. Murray, 1914), by George Aston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (1994, with some later updates), by Christopher Bassford (HTML with commentary at clausewitzstudies.org)

• Polyaenus's Strategems of War, Translated From the Original Greek (London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1793), by Polyaenus, trans. by R. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thousand Years of the Hungarian Art of War, by Anthony Tihamer Komjathy (HTML at Corvinus Library)

• The Eye of Command (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Kimberly Kagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
• Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (1994, with some later updates), by Christopher Bassford (HTML with commentary at clausewitzstudies.org)

• Training for Mountain and Winter Warfare (1946), by Thomas P. Govan (HTML at US Army CMH)

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

• 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)
• Elements of Military Art and Science: or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactics of Battles, &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers, Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia (third edition, with critical notes on Mexican and Crimean wars; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1862), by H. W. Halleck
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On War (1832 German version, and 1873 English translation), by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by J. J. Graham (HTML with commentary at clausewitzstudies.org)
• Principles of War, by Carl von Clausewitz, trans. by Hans W. Gatzke (HTML at clausewitxstudies.org)
• The Service of Security and Information (11th edition; Kansas City: Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c1903), by Arthur L. Wagner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Spirit of Military Institutions (Columbia, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1864), by Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, ed. by Frank Schaller, contrib. by Antoine Henri Jomini
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1915), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sea, Land, and Air Strategy: A Comparison (London: J. Murray, 1914), by George Aston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information in Warfare (1999), ed. by Zalmay Khalilzad, John P. White, and Andrew W. Marshall (PDF files at rand.org)

• From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations, October 1844-March 1945 (1986 Symposium transcript of proceedings, 1986), by Art of War Symposium (page images at HathiTrust)

• Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.