War and Strategy

The economic history of Nazi Germany.

Conquest no longer pays, since modern prosperity rests on trade and credit.

How Swiss bankers kept Jewish deposits and helped Nazis hide looted money.

Britain's entry turned a continental war into a world war that was not inevitable.

Why the 20th century's great progress came with unprecedented violence.

How the 37 days after Sarajevo led Europe into the First World War.

Insider account of the financial-warfare machinery that isolates Iranian banks.

Why the US buys military power wrongly, and the case for cheap autonomous systems.

How the US made sanctions and economic warfare its main tool of coercion.

Thirty-three strategies of conflict drawn from Napoleon, Hannibal, Thatcher and more.

Insider account of the Bradley programme and operational testing.

Companion investigation into Swiss banks and looted wartime assets.

A naval captain on delegating authority to improve performance

John Boyd's strategic theory, traced through the science that shaped it.

The Pakistan army's foundations, land and industrial holdings, mapped in full.

The history of Pakistan's army and its hand in how the country is governed.

Lockheed Martin as a case study in the contractor-state relationship.

How Central Asian states play the outside powers off against each other.

Navy SEAL leadership doctrine adapted to running teams and firms

Insider account of restructuring JSOC for speed of decision.

How Israel's military tech, from drones to cyber, feeds its commercial industry.

Insiders on Pentagon-Valley contracting where Palantir won

A contemporary's account of the long war between Athens and Sparta.

A general's own account of his career, from West Point cadet to head of Union armies.

The broad lines of European military history from 378 to 1515.

Interviews with German generals of the Second World War and their military lessons.

A British volunteer's account of fighting for Franco's Nationalists in Spain.

From Harlem to the top of the US military, through Vietnam, Panama and Desert Storm.

A general's own account of his career, from West Point cadet to head of Union armies.

John Boyd's military strategy, including the OODA loop, applied to business.

The danger of a terrorist nuclear bomb in an American city and a call to prevent it.

How Knudsen and Kaiser led America's industrial build-up for the Second World War.

How presidents from Madison to Lyndon Johnson took America to war and gained power.

Churchill's first year as prime minister, from Dunkirk through the Blitz.

A scenario of a nuclear strike on the United States, built on expert interviews.

More scary and often funny true stories from Royal Air Force crews and friends.

A Marine wounded in combat rebuilds body and soul after a hard, homeless youth.

The 1578 battle in Morocco that destroyed Portugal's King Sebastian and his army.