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• Special Operations in US Strategy (1984), ed. by Frank R. Barnett, B. Hugh Tovar, and Richard H. Shultz (page images at Google)
• The Challenge of Change and Conflict in American Society (1975), by League for Industrial Democracy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strength Through Cooperation: Military Forces in the Asia-Pacific Region, ed. by Frances Omori and Mary A. Sommerville (HTML at fdlp.gov)

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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)
• The American Army in the Balkans: Strategic Alternatives and Implications (2001), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• American Strategy: Issues and Alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Refining American Strategy in Africa (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century: A Fresh Look at National Strategy and Requirements (1998), by Center for Counterproliferation Research and Center for Global Security Research (page images at Google)
• A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement (February 1996), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at fas.org)
• In Irons: U.S. Military Might in the New Century (1995), by Harlan Ullman (page images at Google)
• NSC-68: Forging the Strategy of Containment (1994), ed. by S. Nelson Drew, contrib. by Paul H. Nitze (page images at Google)
• American Military Power: Future Needs, Future Choices (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The US Air Force After Vietnam: Postwar Challenges and Potential for Responses (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Donald J. Mrozek
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2017), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)
• National Security Strategy (2015), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF at archives.gov)
• Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (with support plan for implementation, and related documents; 2010), by United States Department of Defense (PDF files with commentary at defense.gov)
• The Big Three: Our Greatest Security Risks and How to Address Them (1999), by Richard Danzig (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Counterinsurgency: Strategy and the Phoenix of American Capability (1995), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Strategy and the Revolution in Military Affairs: From Theory to Policy (1995), by Steven Metz and James Kievit (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War (1994), by Steven Metz and James Kievit (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• National Security Strategy of the United States (August 1991), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF with commentary at nssarchive.us)
• 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
• Political Warfare and Psychological Operations: Rethinking the US Approach (1989), ed. by Frank R. Barnett and Carnes Lord (page images at Google)
• Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems (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
• National Security Strategy of the United States (last Reagan-era version; 1988), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF at defense.gov)
• The Anti-Defense Lobby (in 3 parts; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1979), by William T. Poole
  • Part I (Center for Defense Information): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • Part II (The Peace Movement Continued): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
  • Part III (Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy): PDF and HTML at heritage.org
• Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy (2007), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, on United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, April 14, 1950 (declassified copy of NSC 68, released 1975), ed. by James S. Lay (PDF at trumanlibrary.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)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (December 1999), by United States Executive Office of the President (PDF and partial HTML at nssarchive.us)
• 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 fdlp.gov)
• 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)
• Controlling Threats to Nuclear Security: A Holistic Model (1997), by James L. Ford and C. R. Schuller (page images at Google)
• A National Security Strategy for a New Century (May 1997), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at nara.gov)
• Strategic Horizons: The Military Implications of Alternative Futures (1997), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• American Civil-Military Relations: New Issues, Enduring Problems (1995), by Douglas V. Johnson and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• 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)
• America in the Third World: Strategic Alternatives and Military Implications (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda": The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2013), by Letta Tayler (PDF, illustrated HTML, and commentary at hrw.org)
• After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #33; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2008), ed. by John B. Hattendorf and Peter M. Swartz (PDF at Ibiblio)
• U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #30; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2007), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)
• The Iraq Study Group Report (2006), by Iraq Study Group, contrib. by James Addison Baker and Lee Hamilton (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• QDR 2001: Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security, ed. by Michèle A. Flournoy (page images at Google)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)
• U.S. Policy Options in Central America (CANF pamphlet #4; Washington: Cuban American National Foundation, 1982), by Eduardo Ulibarri (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy: Definition, Background, and Strategic Concepts (2001), by Steven Metz and Douglas V. Johnson
  • PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Confronting Iraq: U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War (2000), by Daniel Byman and Matthew C. Waxman (PDF files at rand.org)
• A National Security Strategy for a Global Age (December 2000), by United States Executive Office of the President (HTML at af.mil)
• 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)
• Countering the New Terrorism (1999), by Ian O. Lesser, Bruce Hoffman, John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt, Michelle Zanini, and Brian Michael Jenkins (PDF files at rand.org)
• Middle East Security Issues in the Shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation (1999), ed. by Barry R. Schneider (PDF at af.mil)
• Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (1999), by United States House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China (HTML and PDF files at house.gov)
• Nonlethality and American Land Power: Strategic Context and Operational Concepts (1998), by Douglas C. Lovelace and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Imposing International Sanctions: Legal Aspects and Enforcement by the Military (1997), by Richard E. Hull (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision (1995), by Don M. Snider (PDF at carlisle-www.army.mil)
• Disaster and Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Rwanda (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Redesigning Defense: Planning the Transition to the Future U.S. Defense Industrial Base (OTA-ISC-500; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Generals Over the White House (1980), by Sam Marcy (HTML at workers.org)
• Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), by Bernard Brodie (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)
• Learning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces, by Kenneth Earl Hamburger (HTML and PDF at US Army CMH)
• Information Warfare and Deterrence, by Gary F. Wheatley and Richard E. Hayes (HTML at fas.org)
• Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990, by Michael McClintock (HTML at statecraft.org)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)

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