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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
Michael Hastings
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall · 368 pages
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal · 320 pages
"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top T
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Chalmers Johnson · 394 pages
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Jeremy Scahill · 464 pages
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the explosive story of a compan
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
Peter L. Bergen · 502 pages
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Eugene Finkel · 336 pages
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
David Kilcullen · 347 pages
"In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan ends. It is a book about future conflicts and future cities, about the challenges and opportunities that four powerful megatrends are creating across the planet. And it is about what national governments, cities, communi
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
Rosa Brooks · 438 pages
The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions--but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has becom
The Fall of Yugoslavia
Misha Glenny · 257 pages
The Fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis - and the ensuing war - for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion. When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The unde
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
Andrew J. Bacevich · 296 pages
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti · 400 pages
An account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour M. Hersh · 432 pages
Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning w
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason Stearns · 416 pages
They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
Romeo Dallaire, Jessica Dee Humphreys · 320 pages
Dans plus de trente conflits mondiaux, les gouvernements comme les acteurs non gouvernementaux ont recours aux enfants soldats : ils exigent une technologie limitée et des frais de subsistance minimes, font montre d'une polyvalence inégalée dans les combats de faible intensité et sont parfois capables d'une barbarie étonnante. L'homme a créé l'ultime arme, bon marché, renouvelable et pourtant raff
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow · 281 pages
Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred Kaplan · 413 pages
This book describes the attempt to reform the culture of the US Armed Forces in the face of the challenges of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from a cold war machinery focussed on major battles against a massive enemy towards the flexible dominance over an elusive, ingrained and invisible one.
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
Peter Maass · 320 pages
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks · 487 pages
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution o
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk · 1,136 pages
During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israel’s invasions
What Every Person Should Know About War
Chris Hedges · 175 pages
"Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing phys
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones · 414 pages
This book is a definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency. After the swift defeat of the Taliban in 2001, American optimism has steadily evaporated in the face of mounting violence; a new "war of a thousand cuts" has now brought the country to its knees. In the Graveyard of Empires is a political history of Afghanistan
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins · 376 pages
National Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and TimeAn instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its