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• American Strategy: Issues and Alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

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• 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)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• History and Views of Colored Officers Training Camp for 1917 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines: The Bystander, 1917), by John L. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 2001), by Morris J. MacGregor (PDF at US Army CMH)
• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 1981), by Morris J. MacGregor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Missing Pages in American History: Revealing the Services of Negroes in the Early Wars in the United States of America, 1641-1815 (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, c1919), by Laura E. Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Study of the Negro in Military Service (Washington: Dept. of Defense, 1950), by Jean Byers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in World War II ("volume 1" only volume known to be published; Washington: Sentry Pub. Co., c1944) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In Irons: U.S. Military Might in the New Century (1995), by Harlan Ullman (page images at Google)
• QDR 2001: Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security, ed. by Michèle A. Flournoy (page images at Google)

• 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)

• Disaster and Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Rwanda (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• The Role of the Military in Combating Terrorism: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Certain Provisions of S. 735, A Bill to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism, and Certain Provisions of S. 761, A Bill to Improve the Ability of the United States to Respond to the International Terrorist Threat (Washington: GPO, 1996), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs (1999), by David C. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler, and Martin C. Libicki (page images at Google)

• Command, Control, and the Common Defense (revised edition, 1996), by C. Kenneth Allard (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Adjusting to a New Security Environment: The Defense Technology and Industrial Base Challenge (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• California Base Closure: Lessons for DoD's Cleanup Program, by David Rubenson and John R. Anderson (PDF and HTML at rand.org)

• Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security (1998), ed. by Robert B. Oakley, Michael J. Dziedzic, and Eliot M. Goldberg (page images at Google)
• Empire's Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Adam Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2010), by Edgar F. Raines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Use and Care of Hand Tools and Measuring Tools (US Armed Forces technical manual, revised 2014) (PDF at af.mil)

• Why is the Colonel Called "Kernal"? The Origin of the Ranks and Rank Insignia Now Used by the United States Armed Forces, by Raymond Oliver (illustrated HTML at navy.mil)

• Korea: Facts You Need to Know (pamphlet 608-15; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1974), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (Washington: National Academies Press, 2013), by Institute of Medicine Committee on the Initial Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families (multiple formats at NAP)

• Protecting Our Forces: Improving Vaccine Acquisition and Availability in the U.S. Military (2002), ed. by Stanley M. Lemon, Susan Thaul, Salem Fisseha, and Heather C. O'Maonaigh (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500-2000 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2013), ed. by Erik Jan Zürcher
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Mobilization and the National Defense (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1985), ed. by Hardy L. Merritt and Luther F. Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The White Falcon (newspaper of former US military base in Iceland; 1941-2006) (partial serial archives)
• Morris Code (Morris Field newsletter, 1942-1945) (partial serial archives)

• The Armed Forces Officer (revised electronic edition, 2006), by American Forces Information Service (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts (1998), by Douglas C. Lovelace and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Command, Control, and the Common Defense (revised edition, 1996), by C. Kenneth Allard (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Revising the Two MTW Force Shaping Paradigm (2001), ed. by Steven Metz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Profile, by United States Department of Defense High School News Service (partial serial archives)
• The American Legion (partial serial archives)
• A'Bout Face (partial serial archives)
• The Ally (Berkeley-based antiwar periodical; most issues online 1968-1974) (partial serial archives)
• Alconbury Raps (protest newspaper for GIs stationed at Alconbury Air Base, England; issues online 1971-1972), by People Emerging Against Corrupt Establishments (partial serial archives)
• All Ready On The Left (published for soldiers at Camp Pendleton, Vista, CA, 1970-1971) (partial serial archives)
• Army and Navy Journal (full serial archives)
• All Hands Abandon Ship (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems (1995), by Douglas V. Johnson and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• America's Team, the Odd Couple: A Report on the Relationship Between the Media and the Military (Nashville: Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, c1995), by Frank Aukover and William P. Lawrence (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Aspirations of American Youth: Implications for Military Recruitment (2003), by National Research Council Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Transforming America's Military (2002), ed. by Hans Binnendijk (page images at Google)
• Revising the Two MTW Force Shaping Paradigm (2001), ed. by Steven Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Strategy: Issues and Alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

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