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• 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)

• Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David P. Auerswald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century (Washington: Project for the New American Century, 2000), by Donald Kagan, Gary Schmitt, and Thomas Donnelly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can Iraq Be Deterred From Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Naval Postgraduate School master's thesis, 1997), by Michael T. Klemick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Delicate Balance of Terror (1958), by Albert J. Wohlstetter (HTML at rand.org)
• The Requirements of Deterrence (memorandum #7; Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1954), by William W. Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal (c1980), by Gene Sharp (PDF at aeinstein.org)
• 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)
• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Deterrence by Denial and Punishment (research monograph #1; Princeton: Woodrow Wilson school of Public and International Affairs, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1959), by Glenn H. Snyder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Information Warfare and Deterrence, by Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes (HTML at fas.org)

• Firepower in Limited War (second printing, 1993), by Robert H. Scales (page images at Google)
• Logics of War: Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alex Weisiger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)

• Global Arms Trade: Commerce in Advanced Military Technology and Weapons (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Istanbul Summit Reader's Guide (2004), by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (PDF at NATO)
• The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat (Washnigton: National Defense University Press, 1988), by John A. Warden (PDF at dtic.mil)
• 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)
• 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

• 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 Road to Total War (c1969), by Frederick M. Sallagar (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Logics of War: Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alex Weisiger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Future War, Future Battlespace: The Strategic Role of American Landpower (2003), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen
  • PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1991), ed. by Ronald F. Bellamy and Russ Zajtchuk (PDF files at Borden Institute)

• The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Barry Scott Zellen (PDF at University of Calgary)

• China Debates the Future Security Environment (2000), by Michael Pillsbury (HTML at fas.org)
• Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), ed. by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (PDF page images at ndu.edu)
• Strategic Trends in China (1998), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and Ronald N. Montaperto (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at dtic.mil)

• India's Ad Hoc Arsenal: Direction or Drift in Defence Policy? (1994), by Chris Smith (PDF with commentary at sipri.org)

• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2004), ed. by Henry D. Sokolski and Patrick Clawson (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Putting Noncombatants at Risk: Saddam's Use of "Human Shields" (January 2003), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs (2002), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (illustrated HTML and PDF at fas.org)
• The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction Report to the President of the United States (2005), by United States Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (PDF and HTML at wmd.gov)
• Efforts to Determine the Status of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, January 28, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, contrib. by David Kay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan, Iraq's Final Offensive: A Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (Washington: GPO, 1988), by Peter Galbraith and Chris Van Hollen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Role of the Armed Forces in the Americas: Civil-Military Relations for the 21st Century (conference report; Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1998), ed. by Donald E. Schulz, contrib. by Richard A. Witherspoon, Michael R. Gonzáles, Richard Downes, Eliézer Rizzo de Oliveira, Fred F. Woerner, Luis Tibiletti, Luís Antonio Bitencourt Emilio, Manuel José Bonett Locarno, Victor Manuel Ventura Arellano, William J. Jefferds, Robert B. James, Thomas C. Bruneau, Judith Gentleman, Victor Tise, William Deane Stanley, and Andrés Serbín
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998), by David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller (PDF files at rand.org)

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