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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,104 ratings — published 2006
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,041 ratings — published 2016
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,146 ratings — published 2004
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,201 ratings — published 2016
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,574 ratings — published 2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,548 ratings — published 2018
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,874 ratings — published 2016
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.99 — 277 ratings — published 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,429 ratings — published 2016
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,595 ratings — published 2007
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.52 — 91,128 ratings — published 2018
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,478 ratings — published 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,283 ratings — published 2017
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,397 ratings — published 2018
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,482 ratings — published
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,735 ratings — published 2013
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 579,784 ratings — published
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,665 ratings — published 1832
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,228 ratings — published 2002
Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.86 — 253 ratings — published 2005
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,396 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,997 ratings — published 2022
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,527 ratings — published 2019
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,905 ratings — published 2020
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,400 ratings — published 2021
The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.17 — 390 ratings — published 2011
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,625 ratings — published 2018
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,779 ratings — published 2014
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,843 ratings — published 2017
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,595 ratings — published 2013
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,194 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,226 ratings — published 2012
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,460 ratings — published 1994
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.75 — 808 ratings — published 2014
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.76 — 666 ratings — published 2011
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,006 ratings — published 2013
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,726 ratings — published 2004
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,609 ratings — published 2009
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,915 ratings — published 2006
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.78 — 998 ratings — published 2004
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,450 ratings — published 2024
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.83 — 522 ratings — published 2023
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 315 ratings — published
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,512 ratings — published 2022
Battlegrounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,790 ratings — published 2020
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 211 ratings — published 1981
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,962 ratings — published 2019
White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.70 — 239 ratings — published
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.81 — 691 ratings — published 2018
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“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Peace is a crime against state, that's
why patriotism is a glorified quality.
More patriotic the citizens of a nation,
less likely they'll question warmongery.”
― World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
why patriotism is a glorified quality.
More patriotic the citizens of a nation,
less likely they'll question warmongery.”
― World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
