National Security

Playing to the Edge considers the changing role of the US intelligence community from 1999 to 2015....

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

In Defense 101, a concise primer for understanding the United States' $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O'Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet accessible analysis of American military power....

America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being waged by world powers, rogue states - such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea....

In The Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold traces past failures and explains why diplomacy will continue to backfire, no matter who is president or which party is in power....

Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War....

America is doomed to collapse under a multi-pronged attack led by the PRC and by statists in our midst. We must return in great haste to the Judeo-Christian principles upon which we were founded, which made us the most prosperous, secure, and generous nation in human history....

Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between the commercial world of innovation and the world of national security....

From New York City to Bali, Indonesia, ideologically motivated terrorist groups have chillingly demonstrated their global reach...

In this book the authors analyze the strategic underpinnings of hegemony, assess the national security establishment that sustains dominance....

Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details....

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....

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people....

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...

In this powerful manifesto, Sebastian Gorka explains the basic principles that have guided strategists since Sun Tzu penned The Art of War in the sixth century BC. To defeat your enemy, you must know him. But that’s the last thing liberal elites are interested in....

Firearms-related incidents kill more than 45,000 people in the US every year and are the leading cause of death for US children and adolescents. But talking about guns doesn't have to be scary or divisive. With this easy-to-listen-to and politics-free guide, you can arm yourself with the facts....

What should government do to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of a future attack....

Against Security explains how our anxieties about public safety have translated into command-and-control procedures that annoy, intimidate, and are often counterproductive....

In The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow....

Terrorist leaders are not benevolent men inclined to make peace but vicious bullies. The IRA was the Islamic State of its day. Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan are similar wars....