National Security

An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change....

Although it has been over five years since the 9/11 attacks, Americans still do not have a clear sense of how our government is waging the war on terror....

Not since the modern liberal order was born in the 1940s has the world had to grapple with the possibility of its demise, at the hand of a rising China. 

Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record is a testimony of a man for whom privacy is paramount, but who knows that exposing himself is necessary for the world to understand the importance of the information he revealed about the U.S. government....

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization....

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 20211 (CAA) requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) to submit annually for seven years a report focused on cybersecurity to Congress....

General Richard B. Myers has unique insight into how the American national-security system works....

Cyber Blockades is the first book to examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data....

In The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War, David P. Hadley explores the relationships that developed between the CIA and the press, its evolution over time, and its practical impact....

Encryption, firewalls, and authentication may be the first line of defense, but you are the first line of defense in your household!...

In American Coup, William Arkin reveals the desk-bound takeover of the highest reaches of government by a coterie of "grey men" of the national security establishment....

Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square...

An assassin seduces his way ...to the President of the United States. CIA operative Mick Pierce’s wife Natalie is kidnapped off the Swiss Riviera...

After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that "government will listen...." But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control....

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics" - disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements....

In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era....

Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups....

J. D. has walked the border and seen firsthand the devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans....

Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history....

Takedown is a gripping narrative of tracking terrorism during what may be the most exhilarating but trying times the American intelligence community has ever experienced....