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“The new American way of war is here, but the debate about it has only just begun. In The Way of the Knife, Mr Mazzetti has made a valuable contribution to it.” —The Economist
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American...
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American...
4) The overlook
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 13
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English
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Harry Bosch must break in new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they're called to look into the execution of physicist Stanley Kent on a Mulholland Drive overlook. Bosch reunites with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling when a special FBI unit, headed by Walling, arrives and tries to usurp his case claiming it's a matter of national security, Bosch refuses to back down. Walling's focus on a potential theft of radioactive material from the hospital...
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Basic Books
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English
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous.
In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of international relations-disagrees. He argues that...
In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of international relations-disagrees. He argues that...
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Oxford University Press
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2005.
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English
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When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68,...
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Penguin Press
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2010.
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English
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Using exclusive access to key government sources, Shane Harris chronicles the rise of the American surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us.
16) The war on leakers: national security and American democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden
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The New Press
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2016.
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English
19) Father night
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Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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When reform efforts in the Middle East culminate in a violent power struggle between two criminal underworld bosses, Jack McClure finds himself at the center of a multi-national uprising that is complicated by powerful enemies.
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