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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones.

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A senior counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national...

We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship.

In Dangerous Ground, Scott Ritter, one of the world's leading experts on arms control, tells a bold and revisionist account of the inseparable histories of the post-World War II American presidency and nuclear weapons. Unpacking 60 years of nuclear history, Ritter shows that nuclear weapons have become such a fixture that they define present-day America on economic, military, political, and moral grounds.

The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first “high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed he was? 

In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Surveillance Valley will change the way you think about the news - and the device on which you read it.

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world.

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 Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.

As Audrey Kurth Cronin explains in Power to the People, what we are seeing now is an exacerbation of an age-old trend. Over the centuries, the most surprising developments in warfare have occurred because of advances in technologies combined with changes in who can use them. Indeed, accessible innovations in destructive force have long driven new patterns of political violence. When Nobel invented dynamite and Kalashnikov designed the AK-47, each inadvertently spurred terrorist and insurgent movements that killed millions and upended the international system.

Una mirada clara, crítica y necesaria al conflicto palestino-israelí. ¿Es el conflicto entre Palestina e Israel de carácter religioso? ¿Los árabes intentaron llevar a cabo un segundo Holocausto contra los judíos de Palestina? ¿El sionismo es un proyecto colonial o un movimiento de...

“Vår beredskap är god”. Den svenske statsministern Per Albin Hanssons löfte är lika klassiskt som när hans brittiske kollega, Neville Chamberlain, garanterade freden efter förhandlingar med Hitler 1938. Skillnaden är att Per Albin hade rätt. I Vår beredskap var god skildrar Pär...

Några väljer att stanna, medan världen brinner. Viktor Seger är fältläkare i en värld där våldet aldrig tystnar. Tillsammans med sitt team från Läkare utan Gränser tvingas han varje dag göra omöjliga val: Vem ska räddas när resurserna inte räcker till alla? Hur behåller man sin...

Av en händelse hade hon blivit dubbelagent. Engelsmännen befarade att nazisterna skulle bli misstänksamma och försöka döda henne. Förr eller senare. Daniel Seger blir ombedd att finnas i hennes närhet som skydd. Flykten går med fartyg över Atlanten. På fartyget finns två män vars...

När den fullskaliga ryska invasionen av Ukraina inleddes i februari 2022 kände Jonas M att han inte bara kunde titta på. Han var tvungen att göra något. Han köpte en pickup, målade den grön och körde hela vägen till Ukraina där bilen levererades till soldater i Lviv. Sedan dess har...

UM FUTURO SOMBRIO PARA A HUMANIDADE Quem sabe do amanhã? Há um bom tempo não existem mais profetas, adivinhos perderam credibilidade. Em todas as esferas do conhecimento, previsão agora é resultado de estudo, pesquisa e análise. Ainda assim, a vida costuma contradizer o previsto; o...

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award “Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator’s thinking about...

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers...

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial...