National Security

The US, Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Its grand strategy of "liberal hegemony" is counterproductive, costly, and wasteful....

Fast-paced and riveting, The Shadow Factory is about a world unseen by Americans without the highest security clearances....

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced many policymakers that the United States should pull back in international affairs and that restraint should guide strategy....

In Dying to Learn, Michael Hunzeker develops a novel theory to explain how wartime militaries learn. He focuses on the Western Front, which witnessed three great-power armies—British, French, and German—struggle to cope with deadlock throughout the First World War....

Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages....

Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era....

In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services....

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

Too often over the past several years, American communities have felt the wrenching pain of domestic terrorism. Black church members slaughtered during their bible study in Charleston. A synagogue in Pittsburgh targeted for supporting immigrants....

In this follow-up to his best-selling expose about Saudi Arabia's support of global terrorism, Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the United Nations....

In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein....

The truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading - and why we should be concerned....

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy....

Released quietly, with little notice by the public, this insightful government report is highly critical of U.S. policies in the Middle East....

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....

Colonel Pat Proctor’s long overdue critique of the army’s preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the 21st century....

This book tells the story, for the first time, of the United States government's response to Guevara's ill-starred insurgency....

The myth of cyberspace as a digital utopia has long been put to rest. Governments are increasingly developing smarter ways of asserting their national authority....

Lucas Kello delves into recent history to reveal the failures of present policy in preventing and punishing cyberattacks and other forms of technological aggression....

This book covers the Taliban's complete history, including its formation, ideology, and political power, as well as the origins of its current conflict with the United States....