Other books that might interest you

• 

  Bomb Scare - The History &...

  Joseph Cirincione

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “A welcome antidote to the strange confluence of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opponents” by one of America’s best known weapons experts (Christopher F. Chyba, Science).   With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of nuclear proliferation and an optimistic vision of its future, providing a comprehensive survey of the wide range of critical perspectives. Cirincione begins with the first atomic discoveries of the 1930s and covers the history of their growth all the way to current crisis with Iran. He unravels the science, strategy, and politics that have fueled the development of nuclear stockpiles and increased the chance of a nuclear terrorist attack. He also explains why many nations choose not to pursue nuclear weapons and pulls from this the outlines of a solution to the world’s proliferation problem: a balance of force and diplomacy, enforcement and engagement that yields a steady decrease in these deadly arsenals.  Though nuclear weapons have not been used in war since August 1945, there is no guarantee this good fortune will continue. A unique blend of history, theory, and security analysis, Bomb Scare is an engaging text that not only supplies the general reader and student with a clear understanding of this issue but also provides a set of tools policymakers and scholars can use to prevent the cataclysmic consequences of another nuclear attack.   “Invaluable . . . [Bomb Scare] ought to be read by everyone as a matter of life and death.”—New York Review of Books

  Show book

• 

  Special Forces Berlin -...

  James Stejskal

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, “one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history” (Small Wars Journal). 
   
  It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. 
   
  The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the expected juggernaut, if and when a war began. This plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission—should hostilities commence—was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality, it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each of these one hundred soldiers and their successors was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, and intelligence tradecraft, and were able to act, if necessary, as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. 
   
  Special Forces Berlin left a legacy of a new type of soldier, expert in unconventional warfare, that was sought after for other deployments, including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. With the US government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014, their incredible story can now be told—by one of their own.

  Show book

• 

  Summary of Scott W Atlas's A...

  Falcon Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Scott W. Atlas's A Plague Upon Our House 
  The COVID-19 pandemic created panic all around the world, but was it what we were made to believe, or was there a political agenda hidden behind all the restrictions? 
  In A Plague Upon Our House, Dr. Scott W. Atlas details his couple months as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Politics had taken over science long before Atlas got there, and while he tried to bring back logic and critical thinking into decision-making, he had little impact. He discusses his views of the science behind the lockdowns and mask mandates - the science medical professionals on his team refused to believe. He sheds light on the politics behind every strategy implemented, and the utter chaos that ensued due to the contradictions in the media.

  Show book

• 

  Healing the Heart of Democracy -...

  Parker J. Palmer

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In his newest book, Parker J. Palmer builds on his own extensive  experience as a an inner life explorer and social change activist  to examine the personal and social infrastructure of American  politics. What he did for educators in The Courage to Teach  he does here for citizens by looking at the dynamics of our inner  lives for clues to reclaiming our civic well-being. In Healing  the Heart of Democracy, he points the way to a politics rooted  in the commonwealth of compassion and creativity still found among  We the People.    Democracy, writes Palmer, is a  non-stop experiment in the strengths and weaknesses of our  political institutions, local communities, and the human  heartand its outcome can never be taken for granted. The  experiment is endless, unless we blow up the lab, and the  explosives to do the job are found within us. But so also is the  hearts alchemy that can turn suffering into compassion,  conflict into community, and tension into energy for creativity  amid democracys demands.   Healing the Heart of Democracy names the  habits of the heart we need to revitalize our  politics and shows how they can be formed in the everyday venues of  our lives. Palmer proposes practical and hopeful methods to hold  the tensions of our differences in a manner that can help us  restore a government of the people, by the people, for the  people.

  Show book

• 

  The First Jihad - Khartoum and...

  Daniel Allen Butler

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A “well-researched” account of the nineteenth-century Sudanese cleric who led a bloody holy war, from a New York Times-bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).   Before bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in Sudan.   Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic young man, whose visage was said to have always featured the placid hint of a smile. He developed a ferocious resentment, however, against the corrupt Ottoman Turks, their Egyptian lackeys, and finally, the Europeans who he felt held the Arab people in subjugation. In 1880, he raised the banner of holy war, and thousands of warriors flocked to his side.   The Egyptians dispatched a punitive expedition to the Sudan, but the Mahdist forces destroyed it. In 1883, Col. William Hicks gathered a larger army of nearly ten thousand men. Trapped by the tribesmen in a gorge at El Obeid, it was massacred to a man. Three months later, another British-led force met disaster at El Teb. This was followed by the infamous conflict at Khartoum, during which a treacherous native—or patriot, depending upon one’s point of view—let the Madhist forces into the city, resulting in the horrifying death of Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon at the hands of jihadists.   In today’s world, the Mahdi’s words have been repeated almost verbatim by the jihadists who have attacked New York, Washington, Madrid, and London, and continue to wage war from the Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean. Along with Saladin, the Mahdi stands as an Islamic icon who launched his own successful crusade against the West. This deeply researched work reminds us that the “clash of civilizations” that supposedly came upon us in September 2001 in fact began much earlier, and “lays important tracks into the study of terror, fundamentalism and the early clash between Islam and Christianity” (Publishers Weekly).

  Show book

• 

  Al-Qaeda & Islamic State:...

  Institute Strategic Studies,...

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

  Dr. Kamolnick's book is a meticulously documented investigation and comparison of the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and in the final chapter, specific implications, and recommendations for current U.S. Government policy and strategy.
  Contents: 
  Belief-System, Creed, Worldview, Doctrine
  The Al-Qaeda Organization 
  Sunni Islamic Orthodoxy
  Sunni-Salafism/"Fundamentalism"
  The Muwahhidun/Wahhabism/Salafi-Wahhabism 
  Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi-Wahhabi
  The "Base of the Jihad"; Al-Qaeda
  From Qa'idat Al-Jihad to Bin Ladenism
  From Bin Ladenism Back to Qa'idat Al-Jihad
  Post-Arab Spring Qa'idat Al-Jihad
  "What is Qa'idat Al-Jihad?" In a Nutshell:
  Fazul Abdullah and Adam Gadahn
  III. Islamic State Organization 
  "Zarqawism" vs. AQO: Abu Musab
  Al-Zarqawi's Worldview and Doctrine: 1989-June 7, 2006
  From Non-Religious Violent Street Tough to Ultra-Sectarian Salafi-Wahhabi Jihadist Prison
  Tough: 1980-1999
  Al-Zarqawi's Private Jihasist Armies of the Levant: 1999-2004
  The History, Doctrines, and Worldview of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi's "Caliphate":
  From ISI to the Caliphate: Brief Organizational History
  Self-Proclaimed Emir Al-Muminin Abu Bakr Al-Hussaini Al-Qurayshi Al-Baghdadi:
  The Caliphate Now!
  The "Final Solution" to the "Shia Problem"
  Terrorist Modus Operandi
  Terrorist Quadrangle Analysis
  The Al-Qaeda Organization 
  The "Classical" Base First Bin Ladenist
  Lone Mujahid"
  "Far Enemy" Strategy
  Islamic State 
  Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for U.S. Government
  Key Findings
  Belief-Systems, Worldviews, Doctrines, Creeds
  Strategies and Terrorist Modus Operandi
  Implications for U.S. Government
  Policy and Strategies
  Implications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat AQ and its Affiliates
  Implications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat the IS

  Show book