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In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services.  

Neither a protest against AI, nor a speculative work on how AI could replace humans, Algorithms of Armageddon provides a time-critical understanding of why AI is being implemented through state weaponization, the realities for the global power balance, and more importantly, U.S. national security.

Rigorously empirical and rich in historical insight, The Sentinel State is a singular contribution to our knowledge about Chinese state coercion and, more generally, the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes.

Master the future of global conflict as artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons reshape modern geopolitics. Perfect for your morning commute, this gripping geopolitical analysis cuts through the hype to deliver a clear-eyed view of tomorrow's battlefields. Decode the headlines about cyber...

In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology. Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence officials, Zegart provides a history of US espionage, gives an overview of intelligence basics and life inside America's intelligence agencies, and explores the vexed issues of traitors, covert action, and congressional oversight.

In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power—using corruption, cruelty, and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity...

 Since September 11, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. 

The war with Iran began in 1996, when a foreign policy document was written for Netanyahu by American analysts who then spent the following decade getting themselves appointed to the American government to implement it. Iraq. Destroyed. Syria. Gutted. Hezbollah. Degraded. Iran. Now under direct...

Poznaj kulisy tajnych operacji i brutalnej geopolityki, które zbudowały globalną potęgę i mroczne sekrety Ameryki. Od zimnowojennego lęku przed sowiecką dominacją po współczesną walkę z terroryzmem, ta wciągająca historia bezlitośnie oddziela udokumentowane fakty od mitów. Zanurz...

Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought to dominate it. Now, after a lull in the postwar period, control of major shipping routes has once again become a critical aspect of every rising state's ambition to be a global power. Darshana M. Baruah shows how governments from Washington, DC, to Nairobi and Canberra are expanding their interests in the region.

A CIA officer's inside account of how Libya's descent into rampant violence precipitated the harrowing overland evacuation of the entire US mission from Tripoli after being trapped in the city for weeks.   

This book is a clear and informative introduction to cryptography and data protection - subjects of considerable social and political importance. It explains what algorithms do, how they are used, the risks associated with using them, and why governments should be concerned. Important areas are highlighted, such as Stream Ciphers, block ciphers, public key algorithms, digital signatures, and applications such as e-commerce.

The digital audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson. Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption...

In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable - to domestic and international decline and unregulated greed.

An international group of experts confronts challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy—defined as the effort to manage others' conflicts, cope with great power competition, and deal with threats to the state system itself. They consider three potential scenarios for world order where key states decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on a case-by-case basis to address common problems. These three scenarios are then evaluated through the prism of regional perspectives from around the world and for their potential ramifications for major security threats.

China isn't aiming for the Moon—it is planning for control of space itself. By 2045, Beijing plans to dominate a $10 trillion Cislunar economy, beam power to Earth from orbit, and mine asteroids worth quintillions. Space Shock presents eighteen realistic "Sputnik moment" scenarios—created by the authors and stress-tested through wargames with senior space, defense, and policy experts—to reveal how America might respond.

当旨在摧毁城市的二战杀戮武器，在冷战的地缘政治施压下被改造为探索宇宙的阶梯，人类的太空竞赛本质上是一场没有硝烟的生死豪赌。在这个充满安全焦虑与核威慑的时代，每一次点火升空不仅是技术突破，更是大国之间...

当不明疫情引发全球供应链断裂与地缘政治对抗，我们面临的究竟是自然演化的公共卫生危机，还是蓄意破坏的生物安全威胁？在这个充满信息噪音与极端不确定性的时代，每一个深陷全球化波动中的个体，都需要一套清醒的...

Vergeet de romantische mythes; ontdek de rauwe realiteit van maritieme waargebeurde misdaad en brute piraterij. Tijdens je dagelijkse rit naar werk of een ontspannen wandeling word je direct meegesleept in een bloedstollende reis over meedogenloze oceanen. Van houten schepen in het zinderende...

在列强环伺的欧洲地缘政治绞肉机中，一个松散的贫穷山地联盟竟凭着残酷的雇佣兵传统与极致的政治妥协，硬生生杀出了一条绝地求生的建国之路。如果你正处在人生的迷茫期，或是渴望在每日通勤的喧嚣中获取冷峻理性的...