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• Challenging the United States Symmetrically and Asymmetrically: Can America be Defeated? (Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1998), by Lloyd J. Matthews (PDF at gpo.gov)
• The Future of American Landpower: Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century (1996), by Steven Metz, Douglas V. Johnson, William Thomas Johnsen, James Kievit, and Douglas C. Lovelace (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Deterrence and Defense in a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Environment (1999), by Robert G. Joseph and John F. Reichart (page images at Google)
• In Irons: U.S. Military Might in the New Century (1995), by Harlan Ullman (page images at Google)
• Arsenals of Democracy: Pictures and Tabloid Statistical Surveys of Fifteen Major Projects Under the National Defense Program (1941), by United States War Department (page images with commentary at archives.gov)
• The National Defense Policy of the United States (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #13; 1932), by William T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• National Security Strategy of the United States (August 1991), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at fas.org)
• 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)
• The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at archives.gov)
• Fear God and Take Your Own Part (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1916), by Theodore Roosevelt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Must We Arm? A Debate on the Question: Resolved, That the Security of the Nation Requires an Increase of the Military Force of the United States (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1915), by Augustus Peabody Gardner and Morris Hillquit (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, by Herbert York (HTML with commentary at learnworld.com)
• We Are Unprepared (New York: National Security League, ca. 1915), by National Security League (page images here at Penn)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (December 1999), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF and partial HTML at fas.org)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (October 1998), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF and partial HTML at nara.gov)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (May 1997), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at nara.gov)
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at gpo.gov)
• The Requirements of Deterrence (memorandum #7; Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1954), by William W. Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangers of Half-Preparedness: A Plea for a Declaration of American Policy (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Futility of "Preparedness" as the Cartoonists See it (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1915), contrib. by Charles Edward Jefferson (page images here at Penn)
• Inviting War to America (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916), by Allan L. Benson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The National Security League, Inc.: What it is and Why, What it has Done and is Doing: A National Defense Catechism for the Busy Man or Woman (New York: National Security League, 1917), by National Security League (page images here at Penn)
• Preparing the U.S. Army for Homeland Security: Concepts, Issues, and Options, by Eric V. Larson and John E. Peters (PDF files at rand.org)
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (1871), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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