Thats a very fair question. If you'll indulge me my I'll start with one addition to each heading in the original list.
7 books by female writers...
(Apologies for the long thread 1 or 23)
7 books by female writers...
(Apologies for the long thread 1 or 23)
Tactics (& accounts of war)
▪️Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War.
Operational Art
▪️ Anna Reid. Leningrad.
Strategy
▪️Pauline Kusiak. Culture, Identity, and Information Technology in the 21st Century.
▪️Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War.
Operational Art
▪️ Anna Reid. Leningrad.
Strategy
▪️Pauline Kusiak. Culture, Identity, and Information Technology in the 21st Century.
Decision Making
▪️Ann Dunwoody. A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America’s First Female Four-Star General.
Understanding the World
▪️Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.
▪️Ann Dunwoody. A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America’s First Female Four-Star General.
Understanding the World
▪️Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.
Theory
▪️Aimee Fox. Learning to Fight.
Future War
▪️Sarah Kreps & John Kaag. Drone Warfare.
▪️Aimee Fox. Learning to Fight.
Future War
▪️Sarah Kreps & John Kaag. Drone Warfare.
I would then commend a further 11 books for a wider audience, under these additional topics:
War & Conflict Studies
▪️Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August.
▪️Annette Levy-Willard. Summer rain.
▪️Cathy Sultan. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
War & Conflict Studies
▪️Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August.
▪️Annette Levy-Willard. Summer rain.
▪️Cathy Sultan. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
Justice, Effects of War, Migration and Genocide:
▪️Lidia Tilotta and Pietro Bartolo. Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe.
▪️Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War.
▪️Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
▪️Lidia Tilotta and Pietro Bartolo. Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe.
▪️Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War.
▪️Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
Women in the Military
▪️Shoshana Johnson. I’m Still Standing.
▪️Kristin Beck. Warrior Princess.
▪️Shoshana Johnson. I’m Still Standing.
▪️Kristin Beck. Warrior Princess.
Eye openers
▪️Soraya Chemaly. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
▪️Sohaila Abduali. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.
▪️Ijeoma Owo. So You Want To Talk About Race.
▪️Soraya Chemaly. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
▪️Sohaila Abduali. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.
▪️Ijeoma Owo. So You Want To Talk About Race.
These are just my immediate recommendations.
Scanning my own shelves for others, and going through my 'to-read' list of books that have been recommended to me by far cleverer and more interesting people than me I find:
Scanning my own shelves for others, and going through my 'to-read' list of books that have been recommended to me by far cleverer and more interesting people than me I find:
▪️Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Ashley’s War.
▪️Jane Blair. Hesitation Kills.
▪️Kirsten Holmstedt. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq.
▪️Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli and Valeire Hudson. Sex and World Peace.
▪️Jane Blair. Hesitation Kills.
▪️Kirsten Holmstedt. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq.
▪️Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli and Valeire Hudson. Sex and World Peace.
▪️Sandy Asch. Roar: How to Build a Resilient Organization.
▪️Kate Purmal. The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual.
▪️Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
▪️Kate Purmal. The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual.
▪️Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
▪️Sheryl Sandberg. Option B Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.
▪️Carol Dweck. Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential.
▪️Amy Edmondson. The Fearless Organization.
▪️Carol Dweck. Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential.
▪️Amy Edmondson. The Fearless Organization.
▪️Debra Meyerson. Rocking The Boat: How Tempered Radicals Effect Change Without Making Trouble.
▪️Nancy Kline. More Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind.
▪️Barbara Kellerman. Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.
▪️Nancy Kline. More Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind.
▪️Barbara Kellerman. Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.
▪️UN. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
▪️Anne Applebaum. Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.
▪️Lois Price. Revolutionary Road: On the Road in Search of The Real Iran.
▪️Anne Applebaum. Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.
▪️Lois Price. Revolutionary Road: On the Road in Search of The Real Iran.
▪️Catherine Gegout. Why Europe Intervenes in Africa: Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism.
▪️Maria Stephen. Civilian Jihad.
▪️Mary Kaldor & Shannon D. Beebe. The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon.
▪️Maria Stephen. Civilian Jihad.
▪️Mary Kaldor & Shannon D. Beebe. The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon.
▪️Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine.
▪️Ellen Mickiewicz. No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.
▪️-Barbara Tuchman. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.
▪️Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes.
▪️Anonymous. A woman in Berlin.
▪️Ellen Mickiewicz. No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.
▪️-Barbara Tuchman. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.
▪️Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes.
▪️Anonymous. A woman in Berlin.
▪️Sally Cummings. Understanding Central Asia.
▪️Gretchen Peters. Seeds of Terror.
▪️Jennifer M Hazen. What Rebels Want: Resources and SupplyNetworks in Wartime.
▪️Sarah Chayes. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.
▪️Gretchen Peters. Seeds of Terror.
▪️Jennifer M Hazen. What Rebels Want: Resources and SupplyNetworks in Wartime.
▪️Sarah Chayes. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.
▪️Elizabeth Jane Howard. Marking Time
▪️Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
▪️Anne Applebaum. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56.
▪️Benazir Bhutto. Reconciliation.
▪️Ayesha Siddiqa. Military Inc.
▪️Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
▪️Anne Applebaum. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56.
▪️Benazir Bhutto. Reconciliation.
▪️Ayesha Siddiqa. Military Inc.
▪️Mary Fulbrook. Anatomy of Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989.
▪️Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
▪️Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
▪️Inga Markovitz. Imperfect Justice: An East-West Diary.
▪️Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
▪️Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
▪️Inga Markovitz. Imperfect Justice: An East-West Diary.
▪️Samantha Power. A Problem From Hell.
▪️Seya Benhabib. The Rights of Others.
▪️Susan J Brison. Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self.
▪️Carolyn Forche. Against Forgetting.
▪️Heidi Squier Kraft. Rule Number Two.
▪️Seya Benhabib. The Rights of Others.
▪️Susan J Brison. Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self.
▪️Carolyn Forche. Against Forgetting.
▪️Heidi Squier Kraft. Rule Number Two.
▪️Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After.
▪️-Estelle Freedman. To Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
▪️-Kat Banyard. Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
▪️-Estelle Freedman. To Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
▪️-Kat Banyard. Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
▪️Helena Morrissey. A Good Time to be a Girl.
▪️Rene Eddo-Lodge. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
▪️Rene Eddo-Lodge. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
Finally, I would point people towards the online writings, tweets and essays by numerous professional women across the academic fields. Look through who I follow, I don't agree with some, but I value the perspective and lenses they use to inform.
Feel free to add more!
Feel free to add more!
