Economic Warfare

What if the greatest threat to America isn’t a missile but a strategy? Written by two experts combining years of research and strategic advisory experience, this 367-page book offers a comprehensive, human-curated account of China’s rise and its impact on America’s future. With 23 insightful chapters and nearly 500 citations—including US Defense, Commerce, and State Departments and congressional reports—this book offers a sweeping, well-researched account of China-US relations. It connects pivotal historical moments to today's most pressing challenges, proving that China’s rise ...

In an expose of the 2008 financial meltdown from the inside, Ziad K. Abdelnour argues that the political and financial elites have done nothing to fix the structural problems. By creating more market bubbles, they are actually waging a war on the most productive members of society. Abdelnour offers several solutions, including understanding that the government's primary objective is to create an environment conducive to the creation of wealth, not job creation, and not providing lifetime support to those who choose not to take advantage of the innumerable opportunities....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran. "Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of...

For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world. In this gripping story, he explains in unprecedented detail how a small, dedicated group of officials redefined the Treasury's role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply financial pressure against America's enemies.  

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.

This book stands as one of the most intellectually rigorous and comprehensive examinations of asymmetric warfare available in contemporary strategic literature. Moving beyond simplified tactical approaches, this work develops a sophisticated framework for understanding how conventionally weaker adversaries consistently challenge superior military powers through systematic exploitation of structural vulnerabilities. Drawing from historical case studies while incorporating cutting-edge developments in cognitive warfare, digital operations, and open-source methodologies, the text builds a ...

How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communication an effective means of predicting and preventing future attacks? These are some of the questions at the heart of Patrick Radden Keefe’s brilliant new book, Chatter. In the late 1990s, when...

Are you tired of being trapped in the relentless cycle of debt? Do you yearn for a life of financial freedom and abundant blessings? Breaking the Chains of Debt: Unleashing Divine Prosperity through Prayer is your ultimate guide to overcoming financial bondage and unlocking divine prosperity through the power of prayer. Discover the spiritual secrets to breaking free from the chains of debt and stepping into a life of divine abundance! Breaking the Chains of Debt: Unleashing Divine Prosperity through Prayer offers a revolutionary approach to financial freedom, rooted in powerful biblical ...

This book demonstrates how economic tools have been used throughout history to accomplish goals of military conflict, how they can be used more effectively than traditional means of warfare in the modern era, and how we can derive a better understanding of economic strategy applicable - not just to the military, but also to market competition.

When Elise Carter dies of heart failure alone in her office at 3 AM, the 42-year-old CEO expects oblivion. Instead, she awakens in the body of Elinor Blackwood, a seventeen-year-old duchess who's just been banished from court for throwing wine at the crown prince's new fiancée. Faced with a failing duchy on the brink of financial collapse, Elise does what she does best—turns around a failing enterprise. Applying corporate strategies to feudal economics, she transforms Blackwood's antiquated systems, develops untapped resources, and negotiates partnerships that leave other nobles baffled ...

Are you a junior officer, senior enlisted, fresh faced diplomat or just curious? War Winning Strategies covers all the basics of military strategy comprehensively. This concise guid for NATO leaders is for you! In today's fast-paced and ever-changing global landscape, understanding military strategy is crucial for junior officers and aspiring foreign and security policy experts and senior NCOs so we can work more effectively together. This concise 70-page guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of military strategy, empowering you and your subordinates m to...

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons...

Class Warfare in the 21st Century: Power, Wealth, and Resistance in the Age of Automation 🔥 Who controls the future—humans or machines? Corporations or workers? Wealth or justice? 🔥 In an era dominated by artificial intelligence, automation, and digital monopolies, the struggle between the rich and the working class has evolved into something more complex, urgent, and dangerous. Class warfare is no longer just about factories and wages—it’s about algorithms, data ownership, and who controls the infrastructure of the future. 📖 What This Book Explores: ✔️ How AI, automation...

This book has been inspirational to countless economic developers. The comments and guidance of more than 50 of the world's best and brightest economic developers gives all those engaged in this meaningful work pearls of wisdom of the hundreds of years of experience these colleagues have in combined wisdom.

Elinor Blackwood, once ruthless CEO Elise Carter, has turned the struggling Blackwood duchy into a booming center of innovation. But success breeds enemies—and House Wellerton’s predatory price war is just the beginning. Now faced with economic sabotage, court intrigue, and territorial threats, Elinor must outmaneuver nobles clinging to outdated traditions and crush those who seek to dismantle her legacy. With Trade Minister Darius Valerius by her side, both as an ally and a growing romantic interest, Elinor escalates from defense to domination, implementing joint-stock companies, ...

Bureaucracy meets fantasy in the ultimate battle of logistics versus corruption. Matthias Bauer thought running a frontier inn was just about baking good bread and keeping the floors clean. But when he installs a magical [Noticeboard] offering fair contracts and escrow payments to local workers, he accidentally starts an economic revolution. The corrupt Adventurer's Guild and Merchant Guild are not happy about losing their monopoly. They deploy their deadliest weapons to crush his business: road embargoes, health inspectors, and forged, lethal quests designed to murder novice heroes. Armed ...

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of that negotiation — told not through the lens of traditional diplomatic history, but through the framework that Trump himself used to understand and execute it: The Art of the Deal. Those principles, applied to a geopolitical context with nuclear-armed implications, produced what this book calls War as Deal-Closing: a methodology in which military force is not the endpoint of strategy but the punctuation in a negotiation — deployed not to destroy the adversary but to create the conditions under which a favorable agreement becomes possible....

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and...

America is facing a new generation of threats—and most citizens won't see them coming until it's too late. Today's adversaries don't need tanks or armies. They use artificial intelligence, cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure, and infrastructure vulnerabilities to weaken nations from within—quietly, and often in plain sight. In Know the Threat, former U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Special Agent Tony Perez draws on decades of experience in military investigations, corporate security, and national security to break down today's most pressing threats in clear, ...

The Merchant Guild wants a monopoly. The Dungeon Regulatory Commission wants paperwork. The feral monsters just want to eat the guests. Matthias Bauer’s cozy frontier inn has a new attraction: a domesticated, non-lethal training dungeon operating right under the floorboards. By turning a starving Dungeon Heart into a profitable agility course, Matthias has revolutionized the local adventuring economy. But success on the frontier attracts the worst kind of pests: bureaucrats and saboteurs. When Inspector Vane of the Dungeon Regulatory Commission arrives to condemn the property, Matthias ...