Intelligence

The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

The Crumbling Foundations of American Strength

How Everything Became National Security

ISIS-K Goes Global

When America and China Collided

What Are China’s Nuclear Weapons For?

Russia’s Murky Future

Two Books on Race and Politics in Cuba and the Caribbean

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Agent A12 and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Spy and Tell

Can Israel and Iran Step Back From the Brink?

Why Russia Might Put a Nuclear Weapon in Space

Why China Can’t Export Its Model of Surveillance

Spying From Space

Spycraft and Statecraft

The Dangers of Defeatism for Ukraine

The Rebirth of Russian Spycraft

Iraq Disarmed: The Story Behind the Story of the Fall of Saddam

The American Way of Economic War

No Exit From Gaza

The Missing Israeli Endgame

Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

The Real Lessons of the Yom Kippur War

Israel’s Intelligence Disaster

A Second Front in Hamas’s War?

The Black Box of Moscow

Putin’s Useful Priests

America’s Digital Achilles’ Heel

Election Interference Demands a Collective Defense

The Unpredictable Dictators

The New Spy Wars

Putin’s Real Security Crisis

Ground Rules for the Age of AI Warfare

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

Spying for Human Rights

China Is Flirting With AI Catastrophe

Diversifying the CIA

China’s Port Power

China’s Status Anxiety

How Secrecy Limits Diversity

How to Spot an Autocrat’s Economic Lies

The President Can’t Counter China on His Own

How to Spy on China

The Bad Advice Plaguing Beijing’s Foreign Policy

Should America Still Promote Democracy?

Blundering on the Brink

Why Force Fails

Agile Ukraine, Lumbering Russia

How to Out-Deter China

American Influence After Iraq

The Iraq War and the Limits of American Power

Bush, 9/11, and the Roots of the Iraq War

Don’t Panic About Taiwan

Why Iraqi Democracy Never Stood a Chance

The Surprising Success of U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine

Does Technology Win Wars?

Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China

Two Books on J. Edgar Hoover

Behind Enemy Lines

The Chinese Balloon Was a Necessary Wake-Up Call

The Cult of Secrecy

How Technology Is Disrupting the Intelligence World

What Russia Got Wrong

Open Secrets

Two Books on China's Campaign for Influence Abroad

Spirals of Delusion

Al Qaeda’s Next Move

Boots on the Ground, Eyes in the Sky

A Shadow War Against Putin

Putin’s Afghanistan

The Coming Ukrainian Insurgency

To Reveal, Or Not to Reveal

How to Cyberproof the Private Sector

America’s Cyber-Reckoning

Keeping the Wrong Secrets

Private Eyes in the Sky

Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Resistance Is Futile

Why the Taliban Won

We All Lost Afghanistan

The Right Way to Investigate the Origins of COVID-19

The Limits of Cyberoffense

Spies Like Us

In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies, and Exile in Russia; The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

National Security, Leaks, and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On

The Declining Market for Secrets

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency

The Folly of Hoarding Knowledge in the COVID-19 Age

A Crisis of Confidence

How to Prepare for a National Security Crisis

Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Covert Action, Congressional Inaction

Intelligence Isn’t Just for Government Anymore

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