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1) Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield

Author

Scahill, Jeremy

Language

English

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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Presents an exposé of secret war programs being conducted behind the scenes of the War on Terror, revealing the human consequences of night raids, drone strikes and other unofficial dirty-war tactics.

2) Drift: the unmooring of American military power

Author

Maddow, Rachel

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Explains how the focus on national security is actually compromising national stability, tracing the historical events and contributing factors that have promoted a deeply militarized American culture.

3) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice

Author

Wallace, Chris

Series

Countdown

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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20th Anniversary of 9/11
Military Appreciation Month

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

4) The doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner

Author

Ellsberg, Daniel

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.

5) Duty: memoirs of a Secretary at war

Author

Gates, Robert M

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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Understanding Afghanistan

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

6) Kissinger's shadow: the long reach of America's most controversial statesman

Author

Grandin, Greg

Publisher

Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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"A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance." --

7) The restless wave: good times, just causes, great fights, and other appreciations

Author

McCain, John

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain--his most personal book in years--covering everything from 2008 up to the present."--Provided by publisher.

8) Countdown to crisis: the coming nuclear showdown with Iran

Author

Timmerman, Kenneth R

Publisher

Crown Forum

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

9) The insurgents: David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war

Author

Kaplan, Fredric M

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

c2013

Language

English

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The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against fierce resistance from within their own ranks.

10) The US military

Series

Opposing viewpoints series

Publisher

Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

11) The sling and the stone: on war in the 21st century

Author

Hammes, Thomas

Publisher

Zenith

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

12) Weapons for victory: the Hiroshima decision fifty years later

Author

Maddox, Robert James

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Pub. Date

1995

Language

English

13) The age of the unthinkable: why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it

Author

Ramo, Joshua Cooper

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2009

Language

English

14) Joint vision 2010

Publisher

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Pub. Date

1995?]

Language

English

15) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world

Author

Wallace, Chris

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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History behind 'Oppenheimer'
Presidents Day Nonfiction

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.