National Security

Global communications systems and digital technologies have changed our lives in countless ways. But they have also contributed to a worrying transformation....

Ike in Love and War shows the hidden sacrifices that made Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower remarkable. It probes the mission that was driving him: the quest to reconcile his skill as a fighter with his mother's pacifism, which led him to become the greatest peacekeeper of his age....

Rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards....

For those chosen to fight terrorism at its source, secrecy is the only imperative, a rule Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to find out the hard way....

Jim Webb presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people....

This Broadside title describes the degree to which Chinese influence has penetrated American society and what will be required to prevent Communist China from winning the struggle in which we find ourselves today....

The US Army entered World War II unprepared. Lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground, one in the air....

The first complete history of the National Security Agency, America's most powerful and secretive intelligence organization....

For the past two decades, Mohamed ElBaradei has played a key role in the most high-stakes conflicts of our time....

In the 25 years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart....

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....

Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes....

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....

Silently killing us, our family and friends, the global plagues and toxic menaces are here, yet where are you? If you are like most Americans, ...

The Image of the Enemy examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to understand their main adversary....

Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends....

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….

The vice president of the United States is missing, the director of the National Security Agency has been assassinated, and the mysterious organization orchestrating global instability is in tatters....

In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda....

A collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the world....