I haven't revisited it in a while, but maybe Peter Evans' book "Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation"?

I've always been fascinated Clausewitz wrote about having the commander-in-chief be in the cabinet to keep the war "consonant with political objectives" but didn't, as far as I know, talk about Lazare Carnot running France's war as a civilian from Paris, with decent (though not total) success!

“Command of the commons” ugh typing too fast strikes again.

Richard Frank describes how the Japanese carrier aviation graduating cohort in 1937 was 25 pilots…a very select, elite group, but nowhere near enough of a pipeline to fight an industrial war!

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I’m very biased, but I think almost anything Barry Posen has done is really helpful for understanding war, and his first chapter of “Inadvertent Escalation” is in particular a really great piece for tying together grand strategic issues to operational and tactical actions.

I wonder if the prevalence of drones is also an indicator of how much attrition both sides have suffered? I could see the industrial process behind prepping small drones is paradoxically simpler than producing artillery, and certainly than more complex platforms like tanks, APCs, or aircraft.