Ranked: War

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: War

This is a list of various books that contain descriptions of wars and battles.  The reasons for them.  The strategies involved. 

This does not include general histories of the people.  For more holistic understanding of conflicts, see related intriguing connections in the book page, or the list Get To Know This Worlds' Peoples, Regions, Cities, Nations, and Empires

General War Framework

1. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
2. Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
3. On War by Carl von Clausewitz
4. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

General War Framework / The Tools Of War

1. (Circa 1945 Century - 2020 C.E.) Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

21st Century Conflicts

Various / Specific To Russian Conflicts

1. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox

Cyberwarfare

1. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier

War on Terrorism

1. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
2. 9-11: Was There an Alternative? by Noam Chomsky

Potential

1. Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

20th Century Conflicts

Various

1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
2. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
3. After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
4. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

Various / Specific To Russian Conflicts

1. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox

Russia VS Ukraine

• (Circa 1910s-1940s C.E.) Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

South African Apartheid 

1. (Circa 1995 - Late 20th Century C.E.) The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford

Vietnam War (US, France, Vietnam)

1. The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia. 1945-1965 by Edward J. Marolda

WWI (US, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Russia, UK)

1. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
2. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

WWII (US, Germany, Russia, UK, Japan)

1. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
2. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
3. Alliance: The Inside Story Of How Roosevelt, Stalin And Churchill Won One War And Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
4. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 by Christopher Duffy

WWII / Philosophical Background

1. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

WWII / Fiction

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

19th Century Conflicts

Native American Indian Wars (U.S.A., Native American Indians)

1. The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
2. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

France, Various

1. (Circa late 18th Century - 1820s C.E.) Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

18th Century Conflicts

War for Independence: U.S.A.  (British Empire, American Colonialists, France, Native American Indians)

1. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

France VS Russia

1. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox

France, Various

1. (Circa late 18th Century - 1820s C.E.) Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

16th Century Conflicts

The Protestant Reformation  (UK, France, Christianity [Protestant, Catholic])

1. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan

12-15th Century Conflicts

Mongol Advance  (Mongolia, Russia, Islam, Christianity)

1. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

12th Century Conflicts

Crusades (Christianity, Islam)

1. (Circa 10th-12th Century C.E.) Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man
2. (Circa 11th -13th Century C.E.) The Crusades: A History from Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

10-11th Century Conflicts

Viking Expansion

1. Vikings: The Viking Age From Beginning To End by Stephan Weaver

8-9th Century Conflicts

Viking Expansion

1. Vikings: The Viking Age From Beginning To End by Stephan Weaver

Frank Empire Conflicts

1. Charlemagne by Johannes Fried

1th Century B.C.E. Conflicts

Crisis of the Roman Republic (Roman Republic)

1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland

4th-3rd Century B.C.E. Conflicts

Macedonia Succession Wars

1. The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
2. Alexander the Great's Legacy: The Decline of Macedonian Europe in the Wake of the Wars of the Successors by Mike Roberts

7th-6th Century B.C.E. Conflicts

Greco-Persian Wars (Greece, Persia)

1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
2. The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon by Manousos E. Kambouris

14th-7th Century B.C.E. Conflicts

Various

1. The Assyrian Empire: Explore the Thrilling History of the Assyrians and their Fearful Empire in the Ancient Mesopotamia by History Compacted