Book Notes

A collection of books I've read, am reading, or plan to read.

Cover of The Art of War

The Art of War
Antoine Henri baron de Jomini
complete 456 pages
Class: 600
Military art and science
Cover of On War

On War
Carl von Clausewitz
complete 751 pages
Class: 600
History
Cover of Why War?

Why War?
Richard Overy
complete 216 pages
Class: 601
History
Cover of How to Read a Book

How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
complete 452 pages
Class: 690
Language Arts & Disciplines
Title Author Status Class Pages Tags
NATO's Gamble

Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999

 Dag Henriksen complete 628 —
Strategic Air Power in Desert Storm John Andreas Olsen complete 628 345
The Transformation of American Air Power Benjamin S. Lambeth complete 628 380
Making the Unipolar Moment

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order

 Hal Brands complete 628 482
Euromissiles

The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

 Susan Colbourn complete 628 409
Hanoi's War

An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam

 Lien-Hang T. Nguyen complete 628 463
Powerful and Brutal Weapons

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive

 Stephen P Randolph complete 628 415
The Limits of Air Power

The American Bombing of North Vietnam

 Mark Clodfelter complete 628 338
The Heavens and the Earth

A Political History of the Space Age

 Walter A. McDougall complete 628 588
To Kill Nations

American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

 Edward Kaplan complete 628 276
Red Wings Over the Yalu

China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea

 Xiaoming Zhang complete 628 324
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953 Conrad C. Crane complete 628 270
Pacific Power Paradox

American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace

 Van Jackson complete 632 308
The Global Cold War

Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

 Odd Arne Westad complete 632 388
Economic Statecraft

New Edition

 David A. Baldwin complete 632 508
Strategic Narratives

Communication Power and the New World Order

 Alister Miskimmon, Ben O'Loughlin, Laura Roselle complete 632 241
When Right Makes Might

Rising Powers and World Order

 Stacie E. Goddard complete 632 383
After Victory

Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition

 G. John Ikenberry complete 632 332
Rethinking the World

Great Power Strategies and International Order

 Jeffrey W. Legro complete 632 271
War and Change in World Politics Robert Gilpin complete 632 292
Against the World

Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

 Tara Zahra complete 632 325
After Hegemony

Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

 Robert Owen Keohane complete 632 290
Power

A Radical View

 Steven Lukes complete 632 257
Man, the State, and War

A Theoretical Analysis

 Kenneth Neal Waltz complete 632 289
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

Reissued with a new preface from Michael Cox

 E.H. Carr complete 632 346 book-notesIRstates-and-powerinterwar-crisis
The Candy Bombers

The Untold Story of the Berlin Aircraft and America's Finest Hour

 Andrei Cherny complete 627 612
How the War Was Won

Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II

 Phillips Payson O'Brien complete 627 696
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb James M. Scott complete 627 295
The Tormented Alliance

American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949

 Zach Fredman complete 627 335
MacArthur's Airman

General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific

 Thomas E. Griffith complete 627 360
Red Phoenix Rising

The Soviet Air Force in World War II

 Von Hardesty, Ilya Grinberg complete 627 448
The Bombing War

Europe 1939-1945

 R. J. Overy complete 627 852
Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

 Tami Davis Biddle complete 627 420
Operational Culture and Air Power Jakšić, Milena A. complete 627 416
Cry Havoc

How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941

 Joseph Maiolo complete 627 504
Empire of the Air

Aviation and the American Ascendancy

 Jenifer Van Vleck complete 627 351
Winged Defense

The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military

 William Mitchell complete 627 303
The First World War Hew Strachan complete 627 385
The Science of Military Strategy 20

(English Translation)

 Xiao Tianliang complete 600 282
The Sea Power of the State S.G. Gorshkov complete 600 305
The Strategy Bridge

Theory for Practice

 Colin S. Gray complete 600 —
Military Strategy

A General Theory of Power Control

 Joseph Wylie, Jr complete 600 139
The Foundations of the Science of War J F C Fuller complete 600 340
Air Power and Armies Sir John Cotesworth Slessor complete 600 261
Strategy

Second Revised Edition

 Hart B. H. Liddell complete 600 450
Command Of The Air General Giulio Douhet complete 600 620
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Large Print

 Julian Corbett complete 600 208
Mahan on Naval Strategy

Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

 Alfred Thayer Mahan complete 600 433
The Art of War Antoine Henri baron de Jomini complete 600 456
The New Makers of Modern Strategy

From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

 Hal Brands complete 600 1184
On War Carl von Clausewitz complete 600 751
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China Ralph D. Sawyer complete 600 488
The Evolution of Strategy

Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

 Beatrice Heuser complete 600 300
Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry

By Christine de Pizan

 Charity Cannon Willard, Sumner Willard complete 600 234
Every War Must End Fred Charles Iklé complete 601 200
When France Fell

The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

 Michael S. Neiberg complete 601 321
Perception and Misperception in International Politics Robert Jervis complete 601 464
Analogies at War

Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965

 Yuen Foong Khong complete 601 296
Just and Unjust Wars

A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

 Michael Walzer complete 601 361
The Landmark Thucydides Thucydides complete 601 760
Essence of Decision

Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

 Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow complete 601 440
Why War? Richard Overy complete 601 216
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn complete 601 264
Out of the Darkness

The Germans, 1942-2022

 Frank Trentmann complete 690 848
Grad School Essentials

A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills

 Zachary Shore complete 690 156
How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren complete 690 452
The Craft of Research Booth, Wayne C., et al complete 690 —