Thats a very fair question. If you& #39;ll indulge me my I& #39;ll start with one addition to each heading in the original list.

7 books by female writers...

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Tactics (& accounts of war)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War.

Operational Art
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square"> Anna Reid. Leningrad.

Strategy
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Pauline Kusiak. Culture, Identity, and Information Technology in the 21st Century.
Decision Making
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Ann Dunwoody. A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America’s First Female Four-Star General.

Understanding the World
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.
Theory
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Aimee Fox. Learning to Fight.

Future War
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">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
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Annette Levy-Willard. Summer rain.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Cathy Sultan. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
Justice, Effects of War, Migration and Genocide:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Lidia Tilotta and Pietro Bartolo. Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
Women in the Military
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Shoshana Johnson. I’m Still Standing.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Kristin Beck. Warrior Princess.
Eye openers
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Soraya Chemaly. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Sohaila Abduali. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">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 & #39;to-read& #39; list of books that have been recommended to me by far cleverer and more interesting people than me I find:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Ashley’s War.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Jane Blair. Hesitation Kills.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Kirsten Holmstedt. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli and Valeire Hudson. Sex and World Peace.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Sandy Asch. Roar: How to Build a Resilient Organization.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Kate Purmal. The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Sheryl Sandberg. Option B Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Carol Dweck. Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Amy Edmondson. The Fearless Organization.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Debra Meyerson. Rocking The Boat: How Tempered Radicals Effect Change Without Making Trouble.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Nancy Kline. More Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Barbara Kellerman. Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">UN. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Anne Applebaum. Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Lois Price. Revolutionary Road: On the Road in Search of The Real Iran.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Catherine Gegout. Why Europe Intervenes in Africa: Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Maria Stephen. Civilian Jihad.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Mary Kaldor & Shannon D. Beebe. The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Ellen Mickiewicz. No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">-Barbara Tuchman. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Anonymous. A woman in Berlin.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Sally Cummings. Understanding Central Asia.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Gretchen Peters. Seeds of Terror.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Jennifer M Hazen. What Rebels Want: Resources and SupplyNetworks in Wartime.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Sarah Chayes. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Elizabeth Jane Howard. Marking Time
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Anne Applebaum. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Benazir Bhutto. Reconciliation.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Ayesha Siddiqa. Military Inc.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Mary Fulbrook. Anatomy of Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Inga Markovitz. Imperfect Justice: An East-West Diary.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Samantha Power. A Problem From Hell.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Seya Benhabib. The Rights of Others.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Susan J Brison. Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Carolyn Forche. Against Forgetting.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Heidi Squier Kraft. Rule Number Two.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">-Estelle Freedman. To Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">-Kat Banyard. Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">Helena Morrissey. A Good Time to be a Girl.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="▪️" title="Black small square" aria-label="Emoji: Black small square">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& #39;t agree with some, but I value the perspective and lenses they use to inform.

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