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Focused portal for research resources on technology and war.


Primary Readings

The Oxford History of Modern War    (Ebscohost)
Charles Townshend (ed)
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

A Short History of War: The Evolution of Warfare and Weapons
Richard A. Gabriel and Karen S. Metz
Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 1992

War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History   (ebrary)
Colin S. Gray
New York: Routledge, 2 ed, 2012

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace   • Contents
Robert A. Divine
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2000.

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power
D. Robert Worley
D. Robert Worley, 2008

Command Decisions
Kent Roberts Greenfield (ed)
Washington: U.S. Army Center for Military History, 2000

American Military History, Vol. I (CMH e-book)       • Vol. II   (1917-2003)
Richard W. Stewart (general editor)
Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2005

The Logistics of War
Beth F. Scott et al (ed)
Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Force Logistics Management Agency, 2000

The Story of the Great War (original book, pdf)   • HTML
Roland G. Usher
New York: MacMillan,1919

America in Vietnam
Dr. John F. Guilmartin
New York: Random House, 1991

A Companion to the Vietnam War    (ebrary)
Marilyn B. Yound and Robert Buzzanco (ed)
London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002

Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes & Problems
Col. Dennis M. Drew and Dr. Donald M. Snow
Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, August 1988

Geopolitics of the U.S., Part 1: Inevitable Empire
George Friedman
Strategic Forcasting Inc. (Stratfor), 2008

Additional Resources  

Digital History   (American History e-Textbook)
        • World War I  • More         • World War II  • More
        • Vietnam War  • More       • Persian Gulf War
Steven Mintz (ed)
Columbia University

US Army Center for Military History: Books Online (by war)
   • More CMH Topics  • WW II  • More WW II
   • Vietnam War Studies

The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War    (ebrary)
Williamson Murray (ed), Richard Hart Sinnreich (ed), James Lacey (ed)
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Air Force Historical Studies Office (e-books)

Air University Press (e-books)

The Oxford Companion to Military History
Richard Holmes (editor)
New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, USA, 2001

The Oxford Companion to American Military History
John Whiteclay Chambers II (editor)
Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press, 1999

The Reader's Companion to Military History   • Alt: Ebscohost
Robert Cowley (ed) and Geoffrey Parker (ed)
New York: Mariner's Books, 2001

Command Concepts: ... the Practice of Command and Control   (case studies)
Builder, Carl H., Steven C. Bankes and Richard Nordin
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1999

Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation    • Reprint (1997)
George C. Thorpe
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1917

America's Economic Way of War    (ebrary)
Hugh Rockoff
New York: Cambridge Univerity Press, 2012

American Military History   (HTML)
Maurice Matloff (editor)
Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 1989

The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Translated from the Chinese by Lionel Giles, 1910

On War    • Alternate (text only)
Carl von Clausewitz (translated by Colonel J. J. Graham)
London: N. Trübner, 1873

Military References  

DoD Dictionary of Military Terms (JP 1-02, current version)

      • 2005 Edition (more detailed)

      • Military Planning Time Designators (C-day, D-day, H-hour, etc)

Oxford Essential Dictionary of the US Military

Military Organization
Hierarchy of military units including map sympbol, size, and rank of commander.   Although the information is for current organizations, much of it is appicable to military forces throughout the modern era.

Maps  

Miltary History Atlas (US Military Academy)

Map Portal (Naval Postgraduate School)

       • Miltary Maps

History Animated (US wars)

The Map As History (multimedia maps)

Basic Military Map Symbols

Timelines  

A Walk Back Through Time (Wikipedia)
Brief summaries of wars and international crises of interest to this course in reverse chronological order.

Wikipedia: List of Wars     • List of Battles

US Military Operations


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