National Security

An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future....

First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still carries weight today....

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....

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....

In this second book of the White House national security thriller series, Dr. Cameron Talbot, a famous expert on missile defense systems, returns to investigate how American airplanes could plummet from the sky....

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"....

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai offer a rare picture of the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence service and the militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba....

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism....

Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of sci-fi writers. In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology....

Award-winning investigative journalist Chris Woods explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones....

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....

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the 18th century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward....

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....

NSA Secrets delves into the shadowy world of information gathering, exposing how data about you is being gathered every day....

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....

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....

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

The legendary investor and philanthropist issues a pointed, astute, and intensely critical analysis of the Bush administration's foreign policy....

In the summer of 2012, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities....

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....