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  • Conflict

    The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

    New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestsellerAspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.**Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare ... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

    The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Defense of the West

    NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

    This bookdelivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Bomb

    Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

    Representations and Politics

    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Nuclear Weapons

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world’s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now fourteen thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Dead Hand

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Great Again

    How to Fix Our Crippled America

    In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we’re going to look at the state of the world right now. It’s a terrible mess, and that’s putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them?It’s time to bring America back to its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • One Minute to Midnight

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Has China Won?

    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.America prizes freedom; ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Blowback, Second Edition

    The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

    Series series American Empire Project
    Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The CIA as Organized Crime

    How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

    This book provides insight into the paradigmatic approaches evolved by CIA decades ago in Vietnam which remain operational practices today in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Valentine’s research into CIA activities began when CIA Director William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

    Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading expertsCFRs Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew Kroenig, Meghan L. OSullivan, and Ray Takeyhon the issues and contingencies surrounding Irans ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • First Into Nagasaki

    The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

    George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Bomb Power

    The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

    by Garry Wills ...
    **From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since.Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.**In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fidel Castro: My Life

    A Spoken Autobiography

    The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 臺灣的勝算:以小制大的不對稱戰略,全臺灣人都應了解的整體防衛構想

    The Overall Defense Concept: An Asymmetric Approach to Taiwan’s Defense

    by 李喜明 ...
    總長級上將親自執筆,攸關臺灣安全防衛的務實鉅著!此時此刻,你最需要熟讀的一本書。前參謀總長李喜明上將,精粹49年戰略實務經驗具體闡釋國外政軍高度推崇的不對稱作戰、擘劃臺灣整體防衛藍圖你知道,臺灣是世界上最危險的國家嗎?你有準備好直視恐懼、面對危險嗎?我們該如何「避免戰爭」、「嚇阻戰爭」、「打贏戰爭」★ 務實面對始終存在的威脅,思索臺海戰爭的可能性。★ 2022、2027、2032、2049年……戰爭什麼時候可能爆發?★ 面對戰爭,我們的勝算又是什麼?身為臺灣人,面對險峻情勢,你有徹底了解、做好準備嗎?▍臺灣與戰爭的距離,比你我想像的要近2022年2月,俄烏戰爭爆發,震驚國際。戰火的煙硝吹向地球的另一端,各大媒體紛紛刊出「下一個會是臺灣嗎?」為題的報導,然而臺灣民眾處「驚」不變、見怪不怪,很快又投身日常... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Unrestricted Warfare

    China's Master Plan to Destroy America

    More relevant than ever, this interesting handbook on modern all-enveloping warfare was first published in China in 1999. Re-digitized from the 2004 Filament Books edition, this new edition contains specific methods for American troops, government, academia, and business circles for dealing with unrestricted warfare.Coauthored by Major General Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, the book has been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Narco History

    How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

    The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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  • Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

    Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Age of Deception

    Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

    For the first time, the Nobel Prize laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out—on his dealings with America, negotiations with Iran, reform and democracy in the Middle East, and the prospects for a future free of nuclear weapons.For the past two decades, Mohamed ElBaradei has played a key role in the most high-stakes conflicts of our time. Unique in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

    How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program?In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build ... Read more

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