Strategic Architectures: Introduction and World War II
Alexander, Bevin. How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat. New York: Crown, 2000.
———. How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War—from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror. New York: Crown, 2002.
Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
———. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. New York: Henry Holt, 2007.
———. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Henry Holt, 2013.
Beevor, Anthony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York: Viking, 2009.
Bungay, Stephen. The Most Dangerous Enemy. London: Aurum, 2000.
Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
Caddick-Adams, Peter. Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
———. Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944–45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Carter, Kit C., and Robert Mueller. The Army Air Forces in World War II: Combat Chronology, 1941–1945. New York: Arno, 1980.
Citino, Robert M. Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Cohen, Eliot A. Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime. New York: Free Press, 2002.
Cole, Hugh M. United States Army in World War II: European Theater of Operations; The Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge. 1965. 50th anniversary paperback ed. Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 2009. http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_7.htm.
Cowley, Robert, ed. No End Save Victory. New York: Putnam, 2001.
Crane, Conrad C. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Dunn, Walter S., Jr. Stalin’s Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006.
Eilam, Eldad. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2005.
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Fussell, Paul. Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays. New York: Summit Books, 1988.
Glantz, David M. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Hansen, Randall. Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942–1945. New York: New American Library, 2009.
Hanson, Victor Davis. Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
———. The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost—from Ancient Greece to Iraq. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
———. The Second World Wars. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Knopf, 2004.
———. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. New York: Knopf, 2008.
———. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945. New York: Harper, 2016.
———. Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940–1945. New York: Knopf, 2010.
Holland, James. The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May–October 1940. London: Bantam, 2010.
Hornfischer, James D. Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. New York: Bantam, 2011.
Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Knopf, 2013.
Howard, Michael. War in European History. 1976. Updated ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ireland, Bernard. Battle of the Atlantic. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
Isom, Dallas W. Midway Inquest: Why the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Kagan, Frederick W. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy. New York: Encounter Books, 2006.
Kahn, David. The Code Breakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communications from Ancient Times to the Internet. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Scribner, 1996.
Keegan, John. Intelligence in War. New York: Knopf, 2003.
———. The Second World War. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Kennedy, Paul. Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 2013.
Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Penguin, 2011.
———. Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940–1941. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Latimer, Jon. Alamein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Lewis, Adrian R. The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Lewis, John D. Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Linn, Brian A. The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Macgregor, Douglas A. Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
Manchester, William. Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
Mansoor, Peter R. The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Marston, Daniel, ed. The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Paperback ed. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.
McNeilly, Mark. Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Murray, Williamson, and Allen R. Millett. A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Neillands, Robin. The Battle for the Rhine. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2005.
Offley, Edward. Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. London: Pimlico, 1995.
Parshall, Jonathan, and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Washington, DC: Potomac, 2007.
Perry, Mark. Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Plokhy, Serhii M. Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Viking, 2010.
Prados, John. Normandy Crucible: The Decisive Battle That Shaped World War II in Europe. New York: Nal Caliber, 2011.
Reynolds, David. Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
Ricks, Thomas E. The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. New York: Penguin, 2012.
Roberts, Andrew. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. London: Allen Lane, 2009.
Rose, Gideon. How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Sledge, Eugene B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. First published by Presidio (New York), 1981.
Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Steil, Benn. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to “On War.” Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. Lexington, KY: BN Publishing, 2007.
Taafe, Stephen B. Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking, 2006.
Van Creveld, Martin. The Age of Airpower. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
———. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Wieviorka, Olivier. Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Willmott, H. P. The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: Potomac, 2008.
The Korean War
Aid, Matthew M. The Secret Sentry: The Untold Story of the National Security Agency. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Alexander, Bevin. Korea: The First War We Lost. New York: Hippocrene, 2003.
Appleman, Roy E. South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, June–November 1950. Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, US Government Printing Office, 1992. http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/toc.htm.
Chen Jian. China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Cohen, Eliot A., and John Gooch. Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War. New York: Free Press, 1990.
Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. New York: Random House, 2010.
Eberstadt, Nicholas. The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Fehrenbach, T. R. This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History. 50th anniversary ed. Washington, DC: Potomac, 2001.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Griffith, Samuel B. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York: Hyperion, 2007.
Hastings, Max. The Korean War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Leckie, Robert. Conflict: The History of the Korean War, 1950–1953. New York: Avon, 1962.
Malkasian, Carter. The Korean War, 1950–1953. Essential Histories Series. 2001. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.
Oberdorfer, Don. The Two Koreas. Rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Pearlman, Michael D. Korean War Anthology, Truman and MacArthur: The Winding Road to Dismissal. Fort Leavenworth, KA: US Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute Press, 2003.
Ridgway, Matthew B. The Korean War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.
Russ, Martin. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea, 1950. New York: Fromm International, 1999.
Stueck, William W. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Webb, William J. The Korean War: The Outbreak. CMH Pub. 19-6. Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 2006.
The Vietnam War
“The American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946–1975.” Conference conducted at the Department of State, Washington, DC, September 29, 2010. http://history.state.gov/conferences/2010-southeast-asia/ambassador-holbrooke.
Andradé, Dale. America’s Last Vietnam Battle: Halting Hanoi’s 1972 Easter Offensive. 1995. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Bergurud, Eric M. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993.
Berman, Larry. Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1989.
Birtle, Andrew J. “PROVN, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal.” Journal of Military History 72 (October 2008): 1213–47. http://viet-studies.info/kinhte/PROVN_Westmoreland.pdf.
———. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942–1976. CMH Pub. 70-98. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 2006.
Cash, John A., et al. “Fight at Ia Drang.” In Seven Firefights in Vietnam. 1970. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, US Government Printing Office, 1985. http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/7-ff/Ch1.htm.
Clutterbuck, Richard L. Riot and Revolution in Malaya and Singapore. London, Faber and Faber, 1973.
Corson, William R. The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968.
Daddis, Gregory A. No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Elliott, David W. P. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930–1975. Vols. 1 and 2. London: M. E. Sharpe, 2003.
Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Paperback ed. New York: Vintage, 1968.
———. Street without Joy: From the Indochina War to the War in Vietnam. 4th ed. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1967.
Finlayson, Andrew R. Rice Paddy Recon: A Marine Officer’s Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968–1970. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.
French, David. The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945–1967. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Gentile, Gian. Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency. New York: New Press, 2013.
Giap, Vo Nguyen. People’s War, People’s Army. New York: Praeger, 1962.
Goldstein, Gordon M. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. 1976. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. 1969. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Hannah, Norman B. The Key to Failure: Laos and the Vietnam War. New York: Madison, 1987.
Hunt, Richard A. Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam’s Hearts and Minds. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995.
Jones, Frank L. Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2013.
Kimball, Jeffrey. Nixon’s Vietnam War. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998.
Kissinger, Henry A. “The Vietnam Negotiations.” Foreign Affairs 47, no. 2 (January 1969).
Krepinevich, Andrew F., Jr. The Army and Vietnam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Ky, Nguyen Cao. Buddha’s Child: My Fight to Save South Vietnam. With Marvin J. Wolf. New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.
Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Miller, Edward. Misalliance, Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Moyar, Mark. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Nagl, John A. Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Nalty, Bernard C. The War against Trucks: Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968–1972. Washington, DC: US Air Force History and Museums Program, 2005. http://www.scribd.com/doc/1451015/US-Air-Force-WarAgainstTrucks.
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. Hanoi’s War: An International History of War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
The Pentagon Papers: The Defense Department History of United States Decision-Making on Vietnam. Senator Gravel Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
Phillips, Rufus. Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Pike, Douglas. PAVN: People’s Army of Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1986.
Porch, Douglas. Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Pribbenow, Merle L., trans. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. Foreword by William J. Duiker. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Race, Jeffrey. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Later republished in a 2nd edition. War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province, Updated and Expanded. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Sorley, Lewis. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam. New York: Harcourt, 1999.
Summers, Harry G., Jr. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982.
Taylor, K. W. A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Thompson, James C. Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and Program Failure. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Thompson, Sir Robert G. K. Defeating Communist Insurgency: Experiences from Malaya and Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
The Iraqi Wars and Strategic Architectures: Conclusions
Ajami, Fouad. “Iraq and the Arabs’ Future.” Foreign Affairs 82, no. 1 (January/February 2003).
Allawi, Ali A. Faisal I of Iraq. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Atkinson, Rick. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Barnett, Thomas P. M. The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Putnam, 2004.
Berntsen, Gary. Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda; A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. New York: Crown, 2005.
Boot, Max. War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. New York: Gotham, 2006.
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone. New York, Knopf, 2006.
———. Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan. New York: Knopf, 2012.
Cordesman, Anthony H. “The Iraqi Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War: Who Are the Players.” Working draft, revised. Washington, DC, Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 1, 2006.
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Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace. New York: Avon, 1989.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Gates, Robert M. Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. New York: Knopf, 2014.
Gerecht, Reuel Marc. “Intelligence Deficit Disorder.” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2006.
Gordon, Michael R., and Bernard E. Trainor. The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. New York: Pantheon, 2012.
Kagan, Kimberly. The Surge: A Military History. New York: Encounter Books, 2009.
Kagan, Robert. Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Kaplan, Fred. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Katz, Mark N. Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Kedourie, Elie. The Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies. 1970. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
Keegan, John. The Iraq War. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Kilcullen, David. Counterinsurgency. Paperback ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lord, Carnes. Proconsuls: Delegated Political-Military Leadership from Rome to America Today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Malkasian, Carter. War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Mansoor, Peter R. Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
———. Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.
Marr, Phebe. The Modern History of Iraq. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2012.
Metz, Steven. Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy. Washington, DC: Potomac, 2008.
Meyer, Karl E., and Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York: Norton, 2008.
Moten, Matthew, ed. Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars. New York: Free Press, 2011.
Moyar, Mark. A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Murray, Williamson, and Robert H. Scales Jr., Major General. The Iraq War: A Military History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Rayburn, Joel. Iraq after America: Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2014.
Ricks, Thomas E. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2006.
———. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Robinson, Linda. Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.
Sanger, David E. Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret War and Surprising Use of American Power. New York: Random House, 2012.
Schadlow, Nadia. War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2017.
Schake, Kori N. State of Disrepair: Fixing the Culture and Practices of the State Department. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2012.
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. It Doesn’t Take a Hero. New York: Bantam, 1992.
Suri, Jeremi. Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama. New York: Free Press, 2011.
West, Owen. The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iran. New York: Free Press, 2012.
Whitman, James Q. The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Woodward, Bob. Obama’s Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
———. State of Denial: Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Yon, Michael. Moment of Truth in Iraq. Minneapolis, MN: Richard Vigilante Books, 2008.