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  • Dimensions of Counter-insurgency

    Applying Experience to Practice

    Edited by Tim Benbow, Rod Thornton ...
    The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of ... Read more

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  • The First Family Detail

    Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—SlateAs in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remain hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. ... Read more

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  • Body of Secrets

    Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

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    The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling Puzzle Palace, James Banford reveals the NSA’s hidden role in the most volatile world events of the ... Read more

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  • 7 Deadly Scenarios

    A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century

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  • United States of Jihad

    Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

    by Peter Bergen ...
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  • The Terminal Spy

    A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder

    “A story that is at once a real-life thriller and an immensely sinister cautionary tale about the new Russia.”—Star TribuneIn this breathtaking true crime narrative, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later, the Russian émigré and former ... Read more

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  • The Book of Honor

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39

    PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5s creation in 1909 under the ... Read more

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