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Dubbed by Barron's as "The Shadow CIA", Stratfor, George Friedman's global intelligence company, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover, the startling truth behind America's foreign policy and war effort in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when an American president blunders, the results can be catastrophic. In an effort to put an end to Britain and France's policy of seizing American ships and sailors, Thomas Jefferson calls for an embargo. The result: 30,000 sailors put out of work; mercantile families bankrupted overnight; a nationwide economic depression; and the New England states, which depended heavily on international commerce, threaten to secede from the Union.All of these, and many more, incredible lapses in judgement are explained in this book.

Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic-including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen - William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's...

After nine months of examining and analyzing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group issued this report on Dec. 6, 2006. The report calls the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating" and says, "There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved".

An American officer presents an invaluable handbook for dealing with cultural issues in the Middle East during military operations....

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11: Was There an Alternative?, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial questions of U.S. foreign policy. Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by...

A year after his dramatic release by a multinational military raid, Norman Kember revealed his story behind the controversy of his captivity in Baghdad. Written with honesty and emotion, Norman Kember describes in detail his four month ordeal, during which he was imprisoned in a small room and chained to the two Canadian peace activists, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, and the American Tom Fox, who was later killed by his captors.

In this timely book, Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol take a hard look at Saddam Hussein. They see the face of evil: someone who embraced a cruel blend of socialism, fascism, and pan-Arab nationalism when young, and later became a coup plotter and a member of the Iraqi equivalent of Hitler's Brown Shirts.

A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and...

CFR Senior Fellow Max Boot, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Director Richard Betts, RAND Senior Political Scientist Rick Brennan, Georgetown Professor Daniel Byman and Brookings Fellow Jeremy Shaprio, and former U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Peter Tomsen debate the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades. From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the...

"Iraq Offers to Mediate Dispute Between Saudi Arabia and Iran" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Kareem Fahim and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Iraq Report Puts Britain's Blair on Defensive" is from the July 7, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Castle and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"American ISIS Fighter Captured in Iraq" is from the March 14, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Kamil Kakol and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Iraq Offers Grieving Families the Consolation of Swift Death for Islamic State Fighters" is from the July 04, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Falih Hassan and Tim Arango and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Iraq Executes 36 Men Convicted in Islamic State's 2014 Massacre of Shiites" is from the August 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Omar Al Jawoshy and Tim Arango and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A powerful memoir from the late former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and...

"No Safe Place in Iraq': Fire Engulfs Hospital, Killing 13 Babies" is from the August 10, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Falih Hassan, Omar Al Jawoshy and Tim Arango and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

The captivating account of how Clint Lorance, a soldier who became a scapegoat for a corrupt military hierarchy, was falsely charged with war crimes, imprisoned, and eventually pardoned by President Trump. While out on patrol in Afghanistan, Clint Lorance learned that two men, both suspected...

"Obama to Send Military Advisers Closer to Front Lines of ISIS Fight in Iraq" is from the April 18, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael S. Schmidt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.