Research Guides: Defense Analysis : Books

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WorldCat
Simultaneously search 10,000 libraries worldwide for books and more.

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Country Background Information

Country Studies
(formerly Army Area Handbooks) Most haven't been updated in a while but are great for historical background information.
Expeditionary Culture Field Guides (ECFS)
These guides provide information related to: culture, history, political & social relations, religion & spirituality, economics & resources and more.

Statesman's Yearbook
History, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country of the world. Annual editions: 1864-2017
World Factbook
Basic intelligence on the history, people, government, religion, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues

Recent Books of Interest

Building special operations relationships with fragile partners by Torsten Gojowsky
Publication Date: 2019
Counterinsurgency, Security Forces, and the Identification Problem by Daniel L. Magruder, Jr
Publication Date: 2017
Exocet Falklands: the untold story of Special Forces Operations by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Publication Date: 2017
Making Warrios in a Global Era by Tone Danielsen
Publication Date: 2018
Oppose Any Foe by Mark Moyar
Publication Date: 2017
Sea Stories by William H. McRaven
Publication Date: 2019
NPS Alum
Small Boats and Daring Men by Benjamin F. Armstrong
Publication Date: 2019
Special Forces Berlin by James Stejskal
Publication Date: 2017
Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century by Jessica Glicken Turnley, Kobi Michael & Eyal Ben-Ari (eds.)
Publication Date: 2017
NPS Faculty contributors
The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent by Mike Sarraille & George Randle
Publication Date: 2020

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Electronic Books Collections of Interest

Below are a few recommendations for useful Ebook collections.

Ebook Central (ProQuest)
Full-text access to electronic books in areas including: history, political science, area studies, international relations and more.
National Academies Press
Topics include homeland security, conflict and other security issues.
OAPEN Online library and publication platform
Provides open access to academic books
Project Muse
Coverage includes journals and e-books
RAND
Coverages includes: energy, environment, homeland security, infrastructure, international affairs, national security, terrorism and more.
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. As a nonpartisan organization, RAND is widely respected for operating independent of political and commercial pressures.
SpringerLink
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database of journals and books published by Springer. The Library has access to books and journals in: Business & Economics; Humanities, Social Science & Law and more.
You can also buy a softcover, black & white copy of ebooks that we subscribe to for $24.99 each including shipping.
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) (US Army War College)
The Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute focuses on national security and strategic research/analysis and seeks to bridge the military - academia gap.
Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Politics & International Relations and the Social Sciences
Wiley Online Library
This ebook collection includes: business, economics, social & behavioral sciences and more.

Google Books

Entire book contents may not be available.

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Classic Books of Interest

"Little Green Men": A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013-2014
Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS)
"This project consists of research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory."
Assessment of Men: Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services
Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Vol. 1: 1933-1962
This casebook provides summary descriptive accounts of 23 revolutions that have occurred in seven geographic areas of the world, mostly since World War 2. Each revolution is described in terms of the environment in which it occurred, the form of the revolutionary movements it self, and the results which were accomplished. (large file)
Casebook on Revolutionary Warfare and Insurgency, Volume II: 1962-2009
This is an update to the earlier volume and is also a large file.
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973
Merrill's Marauders, February-May 1944
U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, 1775-2007
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1860-1941
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976
U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam: 1961-1971
U.S. Army Special Warfare: Its Origins: Psychological And Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952

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