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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 — 38,472 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 — 2,042 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 — 19,295 ratings — published 2004
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,219 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 — 1,572 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 — 4,582 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 3.94 — 1,877 ratings — published 2016
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.99 — 278 ratings — published 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,498 ratings — published 2016
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,792 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 — 92,451 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 — 3,498 ratings — published 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,307 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 — 2,400 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 — 1,487 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 — 14,820 ratings — published 2013
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,449 ratings — published -500
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,714 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 — 5,238 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 — 8,465 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,102 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 — 1,540 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 — 3,954 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 — 11,526 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 4.18 — 393 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 — 8,636 ratings — published 2018
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,786 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 — 2,871 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 — 4,664 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 — 5,260 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,245 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 — 17,760 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 — 810 ratings — published 2014
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,107 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 — 670 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 — 4,012 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 3.65 — 4,736 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 — 5,627 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 — 996 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 — 1,497 ratings — published 2024
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.82 — 529 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 4.11 — 330 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 — 1,518 ratings — published 2022
Battlegrounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,794 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 — 14,045 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 — 694 ratings — published 2018
“Even if I accept your bogus excuses for war, today we have the technology to fight wars without actually killing people - only reason we don't, is because it's not economical. Life is not economical, death is - peace is not economical, war is. It's far cheaper to kill enemy soldiers than take them prisoner, at the expense of the taxpayer. One bullet costs half a dollar, whereas one prisoner costs thousands per year. So, naturally, preserving life is not the priority, neither is peace. Besides, think of the rush of pride the primitive taxpayers get, from the headlines - "our nations' gallant forces took down several enemy soldiers in a bone-chilling surgical strike!" And more the primitives of a nation are exposed to this kind of blood-boiling headlines, more they get conditioned to believe, that in every war, they are on the right side of justice. World calls it Geopolitics - I call it Pavlovian Conditioning of Patriotism - where the citizen canines of a state are made to believe even the worst of stately atrocity to be just and righteous, by repeated exposure of a patriotic narrative. As I once said, whoever controls the narrative, controls the people. And fear is at the root of it all. Once the citizens conquer their fear and prejudice, and grow up into civilized thinking humans, that'll be the end of state, war and geopolitical tribalism.”
― Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
― Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and 'experience' to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much from the position adopted by the Bush administration as she emphasized the stand taken, by both her husband and Al Gore, when they were in office, to the effect that another and final confrontation with the Baathist regime was more or less inevitable. Now, it does not especially matter whether you agree or agreed with her about this (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband’s help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration?”
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