Grand Strategy Reading List

Here is a short recommended reading list for GS students who would like to expand and deepen their knowledge of grand strategy beyond the classroom:

  • Borgwardt, Elizabeth, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston, eds. Rethinking American Grand Strategy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • Brands, Hal. What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. Reprint edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014.
  • Brands, Hal, ed. The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
  • Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited by Michael Eliot Howard and Peter Paret. Reprint edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Freedman, Lawrence. Strategy: A History. Reprint edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Gaddis, John Lewis. On Grand Strategy. Reprint edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2019.
  • Paret, Peter, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert, eds. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. 1 edition. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1986.