Books like The war in 2020 by Ralph Peters

Nate Silver, the founder of the website FiveThirtyEight.com, explores the science of prediction, emphasizing the importance of humility and statistical analysis.

A Midnight Clear, by William Wharton, is a historical fiction novel set in France during World War II, depicting events of the Ardennes campaign.

Lawrence Freedman examines how military futurists misread the nature of war, arguing that long‑term conflicts, civil wars and blurred lines between peace and conflict shape today’s strategic thinking.

Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Ferguson examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. --From publisher description.