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Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A former U.S. ambassador to Croatia describes the Middle East challenges that will be inherited by America's next president, explaining that the Iraq War has exposed vulnerabilities in U.S. intelligence and the military while compromising the nation's credibility.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the failure of the "Arab Spring" lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions, and brutal Islamic extremism, placing the blame for these modern state-building disasters on Western intervention.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of the global ramifications of Middle East politics. Starting with Arab nationalism in the postwar era and tracing the international ripple effects of local conflicts in the region up to the present, Kepel has written a clever and easily digestible narrative of long-term chaotic events throughout the Middle East while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from...
Author
Publisher
Academica Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America's enemy. This book tells...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For the past forty years the images flashing across our television screens from the Middle East have provoked anger, outrage and, sometimes, military action from the international community. But the stories behind them were rarely understood. In 2011 the revolutions of the Arab Spring changed everything. Now, the handful of dictators who ruled brutally over hundreds of millions of people - Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
THE MANAGEMENT OF SAVAGERY excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs of a national security state. Washington's secret funding of the Mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of how regime change in the Middle East has proven so tempting to American policymakers for decades-despite never achieving the far-reaching aims of its proponents-and how it's finally time to forge a new path forward. "Must reading-by someone who saw it first-hand--for all interested in America's foreign policy and its place in the world." -Robin Wright Since the end of World War II, the United States has set out to oust governments...
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