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Raven Rock

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Strategies of containment

John Lewis Gaddis

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On power and ideology

Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky

1987

Blank check

Tim Weiner

1990

Affording defense

Jacques S. Gansler

1991 ★ 2.8

Triple Cross

Peter Lance

2006

Hazardous duty

David H. Hackworth

1996

The Biology of Doom

Ed Regis

1999

War footing

R. James Woolsey

2006

The legacy of Hiroshima

Edward Teller

1975

Cyber-threats, information warfare, and critical infrastructure protection

Justin G. Cordesman, Anthony H. Cordesman

2002

Strategic defense

Keith B. Payne

1986

The leaders of public opinion in Ireland

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

1871

The Complex

Nick Turse

2008

The illogic of American nuclear strategy

Robert Jervis

1984

Conventional deterrence

John J. Mearsheimer

1983

Seacoast fortifications of the United States

Emanuel Raymond Lewis

1979

The China threat

Bill Gertz

2000

The button

Daniel F. Ford

1985

Louis Johnson and the arming of America

Keith D. McFarland

2005

Code Names

William M. Arkin

2005

Deterrence and defense

Glenn Herald Snyder

1961

Thinking about national security

Harold Brown

1983

The United States at war

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The uncertain trumpet

Maxwell D. Taylor

1960

Living terrors

Michael T. Osterholm, John Schwartz

2000

Fortress America

William Greider

1998

Anglo-American defence relations, 1939-1980

John Baylis

1981

National security

Donald M. Snow

1987