International Security category: 2908 books
Pirate State
Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Providing a timely and never-before-seen perspective on the ever-increasing menace of Somali pirates, this account shows how the cargo ship and oil tanker hijackings and ransoms in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean have turned one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes into one of the most dangerous....
Counterstrike
The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But...
Inside Gitmo
The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay—known to the public as Gitmo—has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access...
by Benjamin Bahney, David M. Blum, J. Edward Conway
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance Cells—interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist and insurgent funding. All contributors have...
Eye in the Sky
The Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites' origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite reconnaissance was key to shaping the course of the Cold War, the book documents...
Does State Spying Make Us Safer?
The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue...
Europe's Angry Muslims
The Revolt of The Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through Islamic nomenclature, chronicles...
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
An End to Evil
How to Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This...
On the Hunt
How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity that—if left unchecked—will lead America to lose the War on Terror.
In the hard-hitting On the Hunt, Colonel...
Rumsfeld's War
The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Not since Robert McNamara has a secretary of defense been so hated by the military and derided by the public, yet played such a critical role in national security policy—with such disastrous results.
Donald Rumsfeld was a natural for secretary of defense, a position he'd already occupied...
The Shadow World
Inside the Global Arms Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Soon to be a Major PBS Documentary Event
The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military—a situation that compromises...
by Carol Leonnig, The Washington Post
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Secret Service has one of the most important jobs in the United States. In this Pulitzer Prize winning investigation, Carol Leonnig’s exposes the dereliction of duty that has put the President—and the nation—at risk. In September of 2014, a man leapt the White House fence, ran across the lawn,...
The Image of the Enemy
Intelligence Analysis of Adversaries since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Intelligence agencies spend huge sums of money to collect and analyze vast quantities of national security data for their political leaders. How well is this intelligence analyzed, how often is it acted on by policymakers, and does it have a positive or negative effect on decision making? Drawing on...