Seguridad nacional

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....

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....

This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the US and UK from the early 1940s to the present....

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....

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....

Authored by leading scholars, the 14 case studies in this volume will help policymakers, scholars, and students make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military technological problems....

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years....

After he was injured in a fall during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Taylor came home - and discovered that the Obama administration was leaking sensitive intelligence information….

David Ucko examines US Department of Defense's institutional obstacles and initially slow response to a changing strategic reality....

An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diego - and the impact on the lives of local residents....

Stewart and Knaus distill their firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of "nation building"....

During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States....

Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder....

In The Global Village Myth, Porter disputes globalism's claims and the outcomes that so often waste blood and treasure....

Somewhere in America, Sheehan maintains, are a number of terrorist cells, their members' heads filled with schemes of mayhem and destruction....

If there was one technological group that has been in the news a relentless amount of times, it could be identified as the group dubbed the N.S.A....

Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals....

Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively....

The National Security Agency (NSA) formed a Cybersecurity Directorate in 2019 with the charge to prevent and eradicate threats to the United States’ National Security Systems and critical infrastructure, with an initial focus on the Defense Industrial Base and its service providers....

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....