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Books, journals, pamphlets and documents on the history of war.

Book · Classical Antiquity
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 500 BCE

Sun Tzu’s foundational treatise on strategy, deception and the economy of force.

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Book · Classical Antiquity
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides · 400 BCE

Thucydides’ analytical history of the war between Athens and Sparta — power, fear and interest.

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Book · Classical Antiquity
Commentaries on the Gallic War
Julius Caesar · 50 BCE

Julius Caesar’s first-hand account of the Roman conquest of Gaul.

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Book · Gunpowder Era
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi · 1645

Miyamoto Musashi’s treatise on swordsmanship and strategy.

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Book · Industrial Age
On War
Carl von Clausewitz · 1832

Carl von Clausewitz’s unfinished masterwork: war as the continuation of politics, friction, and the culminating point.

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Book · Industrial Age
The Art of War (Jomini)
Antoine-Henri Jomini · 1838

Antoine-Henri Jomini’s systematic principles of lines of operation and the decisive point.

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Book · Industrial Age
The Influence of Sea Power upon History
Alfred Thayer Mahan · 1890

Alfred Thayer Mahan’s argument that command of the sea shapes the fate of nations.

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manual · ww2
Elementary Map and Aerial Photograph Reading (1944)
U.S. War Department · 1944

A 1944 U.S. Army field manual on reading maps and aerial photographs. Public domain, hosted at the Internet Archive.

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manual · Modern
Military Topography for the Mobile Land Forces
U.S. Department of Defense

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.

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Document · Modern
Drone Warfare OSINT Dataset
Cognis Digital (compilers)

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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