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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,239 ratings — published 2006
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,054 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 4.32 — 19,599 ratings — published 2004
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,250 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 — 1,579 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 — 1,885 ratings — published 2016
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 16,134 ratings — published 2007
The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.84 — 155 ratings — published 2010
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 — 95,991 ratings — published 2018
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,786 ratings — published 2021
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,534 ratings — published 2018
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,402 ratings — published 2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,673 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 — 1,493 ratings — published
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.99 — 278 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,277 ratings — published 2012
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,690 ratings — published 2016
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 — 15,002 ratings — published 2013
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 595,334 ratings — published -500
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,849 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 — 5,261 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 — 252 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 4.16 — 8,605 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,471 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 3.95 — 1,555 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 4.09 — 4,063 ratings — published 2020
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,340 ratings — published 2017
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 — 8,687 ratings — published 2018
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,809 ratings — published 2014
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,806 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 — 5,467 ratings — published 2015
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.46 — 18,389 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 — 817 ratings — published 2014
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,128 ratings — published 1967
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.76 — 671 ratings — published 2011
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 3.65 — 4,768 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 4.16 — 5,689 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 — 1,917 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 — 997 ratings — published 2004
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,747 ratings — published 2024
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,593 ratings — published 2024
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.83 — 545 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 4.09 — 361 ratings — published
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,550 ratings — published 2022
Battlegrounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,823 ratings — published 2020
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 218 ratings — published 1981
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,272 ratings — published 2019
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 — 699 ratings — published 2018
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,945 ratings — published 2001
“The very strategies of security that are meant to secure and reassure generate insecurity and neurosis (Isin 20024).”
― Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture
― Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel. In 1865 the Radical Republicans sought to snare private conscience in a web of oaths and affirmations of loyalty. Spokesmen for the South did service for the Nation in resisting the petty tyranny of distrustful vengeance. In the 1920's the Attorney General of the United States degraded his office by hunting political radicals as if they were Salem witches. The Nation's only gain from his efforts were the classic dissents of Holmes and Brandeis.
In our own times, the old blunt instruments have again been put to work. The States have followed in the footsteps of the Federalists and have put Alien and Sedition Acts upon their statute books. An epidemic of loyalty oaths has spread across the Nation until no town or village seems to feel secure until its servants have purged themselves of all suspicion of non-conformity by swearing to their political cleanliness.
Those who love the twilight speak as if public education must be training in conformity, and government support of science be public aid of caution.
We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by the Nation and the States as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used the bill of attainder.
The architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they have asked government to outlaw private protest. They glorify "togetherness" when it is theirs, and call it conspiracy when it is that of others.
In listing these abuses I do not mean to condemn our central effort to protect the Nation's security. The dangers that surround us have been very great, and many of our measures of vigilance have ample justification. Yet there are few among us who do not share a portion of the blame for not recognizing soon enough the dark tendency towards excess of caution.”
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In our own times, the old blunt instruments have again been put to work. The States have followed in the footsteps of the Federalists and have put Alien and Sedition Acts upon their statute books. An epidemic of loyalty oaths has spread across the Nation until no town or village seems to feel secure until its servants have purged themselves of all suspicion of non-conformity by swearing to their political cleanliness.
Those who love the twilight speak as if public education must be training in conformity, and government support of science be public aid of caution.
We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by the Nation and the States as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used the bill of attainder.
The architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they have asked government to outlaw private protest. They glorify "togetherness" when it is theirs, and call it conspiracy when it is that of others.
In listing these abuses I do not mean to condemn our central effort to protect the Nation's security. The dangers that surround us have been very great, and many of our measures of vigilance have ample justification. Yet there are few among us who do not share a portion of the blame for not recognizing soon enough the dark tendency towards excess of caution.”
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