- "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz
- "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
- "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
- "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli
- "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
- "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine
- "The Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson
- "The Constitution of the United States"
- "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx
Studies:
- "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides
- "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon
- "A History of the Crusades" by Steven Runciman
- "The Hundred Years' War" by Barbara Tuchman
- "The Thirty Years' War" by C. V. Wedgwood
- "The American Revolution" by Gordon S. Wood
- "The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle
- "The Russian Revolution" by Richard Pipes
- "The Chinese Revolution" by Jonathan Spence
- "The Vietnam War" by Stanley Karnow