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Pirate State
Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Providing a timely and never-before-seen perspective on the ever-increasing menace of Somali pirates, this account shows how the cargo ship and oil tanker hijackings and ransoms in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean have turned one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes into one of the most dangerous....
Counterstrike
The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But...
Inside Gitmo
The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay—known to the public as Gitmo—has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access...
Blood Year
The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
2014 has the potential to go down as a crucial year in modern world history. A resurgent and bellicose Russia took over Crimea and fueled a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. Post-Saddam Iraq, in many respects a creature of the United States because of the war that began in 2003, lost a third of its territory...
by Benjamin Bahney, David M. Blum, J. Edward Conway
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This edited volume describes various analytic methods used by intelligence analysts supporting military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as members of the Iraq and Afghan Threat Finance Cells—interagency intelligence teams tasked to disrupt terrorist and insurgent funding. All contributors have...
Eye in the Sky
The Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites' origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite reconnaissance was key to shaping the course of the Cold War, the book documents...
The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr
Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A controversial look at the headline-making story of the last Western prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and the larger implications to national security, justice, and international relations.
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Omar Khadr is the last Western prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. He has been held at the American...
Does State Spying Make Us Safer?
The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue...
by Kathrin Wiedenbauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: In the following, the background to the United States' involvement in the Bosnian war,...
Europe's Angry Muslims
The Revolt of The Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe. It guides readers through Islamic nomenclature, chronicles...
The Struggle for the West
A Divided and Contested Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West’s imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will survive its nature, and the balance of power...
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
The Threat Matrix
Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who has just been named special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The...
An End to Evil
How to Win the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This...