Sun Tzu’s foundational treatise on strategy, deception and the economy of force.
Read ↗Thucydides’ analytical history of the war between Athens and Sparta — power, fear and interest.
Read ↗Julius Caesar’s first-hand account of the Roman conquest of Gaul.
Read ↗Miyamoto Musashi’s treatise on swordsmanship and strategy.
Read ↗Carl von Clausewitz’s unfinished masterwork: war as the continuation of politics, friction, and the culminating point.
Read ↗Antoine-Henri Jomini’s systematic principles of lines of operation and the decisive point.
Read ↗Alfred Thayer Mahan’s argument that command of the sea shapes the fate of nations.
Read ↗A 1944 U.S. Army field manual on reading maps and aerial photographs. Public domain, hosted at the Internet Archive.
Read ↗A military manual on map reading, surveying and map design for land forces. Public-domain U.S. government work (DTIC archive); a solid reference for the Navigation courses.
Read ↗An open, citation-graded OSINT dataset (CC BY 4.0) cataloguing foreign components across 195+ drone and missile platforms, compiled largely from Ukrainian government and investigative-journalism sources. Listed here as an external research reference; its claims and framing are the dataset authors' own.
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