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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.

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.

I begyndelsen af 2022 rumler krigstrommerne over Europa. Russiske kampvognsenheder bevæger sig langs grænsen til Ukraine, og i syd rykker bombefly i stilling. I Moskva passer den erfarne danske forsvarsattaché Carsten Rasmussen sit arbejde og rapporterer hjem til København om de russiske...

Da en dansk krigsveteran tager afsted for at hjælpe Ukraine i kampen mod Rusland, er det med en indtrængende bøn fra sine børn: Lad nu være med at dø. Det lover han dem. Men døden kommer faretruende tæt på under indsatsen med at evakuere sårede soldater ved frontlinien og flere af hans...

Terroristen Khalid ibn al-Walid sidder i Mali i Vestafrika og udtænker en hybrid specialoperation, som skal lægge et uforberedt Danmark ned. Danmarks allierede giver FE og PET den kolde skulder efter skandalerne omkring de to tjenester. Frankrig og Sverige lækker til statsminister Anne Larsen...

গৌড়ের ইতিহাস রজনীকান্ত চক্রবর্তী রচিত গৌড়ের ইতিহাস গ্রন্থটি অখণ্ড বঙ্গভূমির প্রথম পুর্ণাঙ্গ ইতিহাস। গৌড়...

Ett lättsamt och personligt bonusmaterial för alla lyssnare som tagit del av Rysslands militära fuck-ups och vill veta mer om boken i allmänhet och skrivprocessen i synnerhet. Hör Per Wallin och Mattis Bergwall svara på frågor ställda av Krigshistoriepoddens lyssnare. Här diskuterar...

Now available in a new edition entitled GLASS HOUSES: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World. A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that...

In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, it's surprising how little attention is still paid to these so-called petrostates. These states' wealth props up the global arms trade, provides diplomatic leverage, and allows them to support violent and nonviolent proxies. In Oil, the State, and War, Emma Ashford explores the many potential links between domestic oil production and foreign policy behavior and how oil production influences global politics.

The Jihadi Next Door provides unprecedented information that can be used to actually combat terrorism. By laying bare the tactics used by ISIS to deceive and exploit new recruits and exposing the veneer these extremists operate under, Dr. Mehlman-Orozco hopes to empower listeners with the knowledge needed to prevent future recruitment and thereby preventing acts of terrorism. 

The wisdom of Sun Tzu, narrated by Peter Berkrot, Marlon Braccia, and Mike Vendetti. Thought to have been written over 3m000 years ago, this missive has been included as a course of study by the US Marine Corps and military academies. These precepts have destroyed nations and built business empires. An executive, a general, a congressman, a businessperson - or anybody just wanting to get ahead - should listen to this at least once a month. This is a three-audiobook set, with each version the complete audiobook but with a separate narrator.

The New York Times bestselling autobiography of a legendary political and military leader. It could be said that Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past 50 years. His first career, beginning as an Army intelligence officer and...

The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. "Russian Roulette is...the most thorough and riveting account." -- The New York Times Russian Roulette is a...

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Modig beretning fra en russisk soldat, som var med under invasionen af Ukraine, sagde “nej til krigen” og hoppede af til Vesten. Den 24. februar 2022 invaderede Rusland Ukraine. Pavel Filatjev var professionel soldat og sammen med sit kompagni udstationeret på Krim, hvorfra de uden megen...

An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with little regard for ethics, security, or even the law. Donald Trump's opulent Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago has thrummed with scandal since the earliest days of his...

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...