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Short introductions to the other books on the bookshelf, the ones without a full review yet. Use them to decide what to pick up next.
Descriptions. These are short descriptions of books from the bookshelf, not reviews. For my own reviews, see the Book Reviews.
1946: Last War of Independence
Pramod Kapoor
The Absent Dialogue
Anit Mukherjee
The Admirals
Walter R. Borneman
American Admiralship
Edgar F. Puryear Jr.
American Caesar
William Manchester
An Era of Darkness
Shashi Tharoor
The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
Army of None
Paul Scharre
The Art of War: War and Military Thought
Martin van Creveld
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
Rajiv Malhotra
At War at Sea
Ronald H. Spector
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Battle at Sea
John Keegan
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Paul S. Dull
The Battle of Rezang La
Kulpreet Yadav
Black Tornado
Sandeep Unnithan
Bloody Okinawa
Joseph Wheelan
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
James R. Holmes
The British Way of War
Andrew Lambert
Call Sign Chaos
Jim Mattis and Bing West
The Challenge of Command
Roger H. Nye
China's India War
Bertil Lintner
The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel P. Huntington
Code Name God
Mani Bhaumik
The Costliest Pearl
Bertil Lintner
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
Early Indians
Tony Joseph
Eating Grass
Feroz Hassan Khan
The Elements of Power
Nicholas Niarchos
Embracing Defeat
John W. Dower
The Essentials of Hinduism
Trilochan Sastry
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
Lawrence Freedman
Famous Sea Fights
John Richard Hale
Fighting to the End
C. Christine Fair
Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat
Wayne P. Hughes Jr.
For That One Day
Mitsuo Fuchida
Four Crises and a Peace Process
P. R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Stephen P. Cohen
From Chanakya to Modi
Aparna Pande
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor
Sadao Asada
Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972–2020
Arjun Subramaniam
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Generals
Thomas E. Ricks
Genius Weapons
Louis A. Del Monte
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Halsey's Typhoon
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Himalayan Blunder
J. P. Dalvi
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Paul Ham
A History of Warfare
John Keegan
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
How India Sees the World
Shyam Saran
How to Lose a War at Sea
Bill Fawcett (ed.)
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Humankind
Rutger Bregman
The Idea of Pakistan
Stephen P. Cohen
Ikigai
Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
India from Curzon to Nehru and After
Durga Das
The India Way
S. Jaishankar
India's China War
Neville Maxwell
India's Military Conflicts and Diplomacy
V. P. Malik
India's Nuclear Bomb
George Perkovich
India's Strategic Culture
Shrikant Paranjpe
India's Wars
Arjun Subramaniam
The India-Pakistan Military Standoff
Zachary S. Davis (ed.)
The Indian Ocean
Michael Pearson
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command
Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Japanese Destroyer Captain
Tameichi Hara
John Paul Jones
Samuel Eliot Morison
Kaigun
David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie
Kargil: From Surprise to Victory
V. P. Malik
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
James D. Hornfischer
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Leadership in War
Andrew Roberts
The Leverage of Sea Power
Colin S. Gray
Leyte
Samuel Eliot Morison
The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi
Robert Payne
Limited War: Revisiting Kargil in the Indo-Pak Conflict
D. Suba Chandran
The Long Game
Vijay Gokhale
Making India Great
Aparna Pande
The Man Who Bombed Karachi
S. M. Nanda
Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars
Raja Menon
The Mask of Command
John Keegan
Material World
Ed Conway
Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan
Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya
Military Misfortunes
Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch
Military Strategy
J. C. Wylie
Modern Strategy
Colin S. Gray
Napoleon the Great
Andrew Roberts
Naval Blockade and Seapower
Bruce A. Elleman and S. C. M. Paine (eds.)
Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century, 1900–1945
Gerald Jordan (ed.)
Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860
Jeremy Black
Navies and Foreign Policy
Ken Booth
Nelson's Battles
Oliver Warner
Nelson's Trafalgar
Roy Adkins
The New Map
Daniel Yergin
The New Rules of War
Sean McFate
The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Nimitz
E. B. Potter
Nineteen Stars
Edgar F. Puryear Jr.
Not War, Not Peace?
George Perkovich and Toby Dalton
Ocean of Churn
Sanjeev Sanyal
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
On Strategy: A Primer
Nathan K. Finney (ed.)
Operation X
M. N. R. Samant and Sandeep Unnithan
Original Sin
Stanly Johny
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb
Hassan Abbas
Pakistan: Courting the Abyss
Tilak Devasher
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
The Pursuit of Victory
Roger Knight
The Quiet Warrior
Thomas B. Buell
R. N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster
Nitin A. Gokhale
Red Star over the Pacific
Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes
Reimagining Pakistan
Husain Haqqani
The Reluctant Admiral
Hiroyuki Agawa
Requiem for Battleship Yamato
Yoshida Mitsuru
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy
A Sailor's Story
N. Krishnan
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Sea of Thunder
Evan Thomas
Seapower as Strategy
Norman Friedman
Seapower States
Andrew Lambert
The Second World War: A Strategical and Tactical History
J. F. C. Fuller
Shattered Sword
Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Stephen Walker
A Short History of Humanity
Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe
A Short History of the World
Christopher Lascelles
Six Days of War
Michael B. Oren
The Soldier and the State
Samuel P. Huntington
Soldiering with Dignity
Depinder Singh
South Asia's Cold War
Rajesh M. Basrur
A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein
The Strategy Bridge
Colin S. Gray
Strategy in the Missile Age
Bernard Brodie
The Strategy Trap
Prakash Menon
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace
Edward N. Luttwak
Surrender at Dacca
J. F. R. Jacob
Theories of International Relations
Scott Burchill and others
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Robert Malley and Hussein Agha
The Tsar's Last Armada
Constantine Pleshakov
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
The Two-Ocean War
Samuel Eliot Morison
Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India
Shakti Sinha
Watershed 1967
Probal DasGupta
We Dared
S. N. Kohli
The Weapon Wizards
Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot
Weapons of Peace
Raj Chengappa
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Wired for War
P. W. Singer
The Wonder That Was India
A. L. Basham
A World in Disarray
Richard Haass
World Order
Henry Kissinger
World War II at Sea
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