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Military Science and Leadership

WMU Libraries offers specialized resources on Military Science including leadership, military history, and psychology

Library Search for Books

Use the Libraries' ADVANCED SEARCH to find books on your topic in the WMU collection.

If you already know the title or author, use the pull-down arrow to select Title or Author.

When looking for books by topic, enter your keyword(s) into the search boxes.

SEARCH TIP:  If you are using a phrase in your search, be sure and put it in quotation marks, e.g., "armed forces"

SEARCH TIP:  Use an asterisk  *  to pick up variant endings of a word, e.g., leader* will retrieve leader, leaders, leadership, etc.

Suggested Keyword Search Terms

You might try using some of these official Library of Congress subject  headings to help you find books on your topic. SEARCH TIP:  Remember to use quotation marks around a phrase.

"armed conflict"

"armed forces"

"military art and science"

"military ethics"

"military history"

strategy AND military

"united states army"

"united states history civil war 1861-1865"

"war causes"

"women and the military"

"world war 1914-1918"

"world war 1939-1945"

Explore Beyond WMU's Library

Use MelCat and WorldCat to identify pertinent resources "out there" that are not owned by the WMU Libraries.  You can request items directly through MelCat and through Interlibrary Loan from WorldCat. We will borrow the book(s) from another library and the service is FREE to you.