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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,835 ratings — published 2006
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,042 ratings — published 2016
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,006 ratings — published 2004
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,192 ratings — published 2016
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,573 ratings — published 2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,517 ratings — published 2018
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,862 ratings — published 2016
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.98 — 278 ratings — published 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,357 ratings — published 2016
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.95 — 15,435 ratings — published 2007
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.52 — 89,944 ratings — published 2018
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,470 ratings — published 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,255 ratings — published 2017
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,393 ratings — published 2018
The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,478 ratings — published
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,631 ratings — published 2013
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 575,923 ratings — published -500
On War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 14,606 ratings — published 1832
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,217 ratings — published 2002
Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.86 — 253 ratings — published 2005
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,344 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.40 — 42,166 ratings — published 2022
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,513 ratings — published 2019
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,854 ratings — published 2020
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,307 ratings — published 2021
The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.18 — 389 ratings — published 2011
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,601 ratings — published 2018
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,767 ratings — published 2014
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,804 ratings — published 2017
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,525 ratings — published 2013
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,118 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Intelligence (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,205 ratings — published 2012
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,233 ratings — published 1994
Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.75 — 807 ratings — published 2014
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.77 — 661 ratings — published 2011
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,990 ratings — published 2013
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,708 ratings — published 2004
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,581 ratings — published 2009
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,913 ratings — published 2006
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.78 — 998 ratings — published 2004
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,400 ratings — published 2024
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.83 — 514 ratings — published 2023
The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 307 ratings — published
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,492 ratings — published 2022
Battlegrounds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,778 ratings — published 2020
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.12 — 209 ratings — published 1981
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,875 ratings — published 2019
White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.71 — 238 ratings — published
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as national-security)
avg rating 3.81 — 686 ratings — published 2018
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“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a shabby political effort to isolate the Republic from the world and to punish political criticism as seditious libel. In 1865 the Radical Republicans sought to snare private conscience in a web of oaths and affirmations of loyalty. Spokesmen for the South did service for the Nation in resisting the petty tyranny of distrustful vengeance. In the 1920's the Attorney General of the United States degraded his office by hunting political radicals as if they were Salem witches. The Nation's only gain from his efforts were the classic dissents of Holmes and Brandeis.
In our own times, the old blunt instruments have again been put to work. The States have followed in the footsteps of the Federalists and have put Alien and Sedition Acts upon their statute books. An epidemic of loyalty oaths has spread across the Nation until no town or village seems to feel secure until its servants have purged themselves of all suspicion of non-conformity by swearing to their political cleanliness.
Those who love the twilight speak as if public education must be training in conformity, and government support of science be public aid of caution.
We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by the Nation and the States as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used the bill of attainder.
The architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they have asked government to outlaw private protest. They glorify "togetherness" when it is theirs, and call it conspiracy when it is that of others.
In listing these abuses I do not mean to condemn our central effort to protect the Nation's security. The dangers that surround us have been very great, and many of our measures of vigilance have ample justification. Yet there are few among us who do not share a portion of the blame for not recognizing soon enough the dark tendency towards excess of caution.”
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In our own times, the old blunt instruments have again been put to work. The States have followed in the footsteps of the Federalists and have put Alien and Sedition Acts upon their statute books. An epidemic of loyalty oaths has spread across the Nation until no town or village seems to feel secure until its servants have purged themselves of all suspicion of non-conformity by swearing to their political cleanliness.
Those who love the twilight speak as if public education must be training in conformity, and government support of science be public aid of caution.
We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends, has too frequently been used by the Nation and the States as a means for effecting the disgrace and degradation of private persons. Unscrupulous demagogues have used the power to investigate as tyrants of an earlier day used the bill of attainder.
The architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they have asked government to outlaw private protest. They glorify "togetherness" when it is theirs, and call it conspiracy when it is that of others.
In listing these abuses I do not mean to condemn our central effort to protect the Nation's security. The dangers that surround us have been very great, and many of our measures of vigilance have ample justification. Yet there are few among us who do not share a portion of the blame for not recognizing soon enough the dark tendency towards excess of caution.”
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“A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.”
― The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
― The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
