The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945 Gordon Wright. Harper & Row, 1968.
A history of six years of the Second World War and the effects -- economic, political, scientific, psychological and military -- on the countries involved. Buy on Amazon | Find in a library
Fair Play James Olson. Potomac Books, 2007.
A manual on the ethics of intelligence where Olson, who spent 25 years in the CIA, outlines the moral questions of spycraft through a series of imagined scenarios. Buy on Amazon | Find in a library
Team of Teams Stan McChrystal, Chris Fussell, David Silverman, Tantum Collins. Portfolio, 2015.
The account of the US military command and its organizational changes from 2004 onwards. Buy on Amazon | Find in a library
The Strategy of Conflict Thomas Schelling, Harvard University Press, 1981.
Originally published in 1960, these essays study game theory and its practice in real world conflict situations, from the personal to the international. Buy on Amazon | Find in a library
Teaching Common Sense Linda Kulman. Prospecta Press, 2016.
An overview of the Grand Strategy program at Yale University, a course of study designed to teach leadership on a global issue. Buy on Amazon
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra. Random House, 2013.
This novel recounts the life of a young girl surviving war in Chechnya in 2004, while referencing the Chechen-Russian conflicts of the 1990s. Buy on Amazon
Articles
The Shadow of State Secrets Laura Donohue. 159 U. Pa. L. Rev. 77-216, 2010.
The US government may declare information to be a state secret to block disclosure in court cases, but the use of that privilege is not well understood.