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Fogs of war and peace
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Robert L. Dilworth |
This work focuses on continual global conflict and how American views are being obstructed through a concept referred to as "fogs of war" that distort reality. The authors discuss the root of these p… |
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Dark side
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Jane Mayer |
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were m… |
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The Al Qaeda reader
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Raymond Ibrahim |
"Gathers together the essential texts and documents that trace the origin, history, and evolution of the ideas of Al Qaeda founders Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden"--Provided by publisher. |
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The enemy combatant papers
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Karen J. Greenberg |
xxxiii, 1008 p. : 27 cm |
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Captain America and the crusade against evil
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John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett |
"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o… |
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The One Percent Doctrine
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Ron Suskind |
What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, a… |
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A most wanted man
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John le Carré |
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely… |
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America embattled
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Richard Crockatt |
What causes Anti- Americanism and where are its historical roots? What is the impact of 9/11 on America's sense of itself and its role in the world? Is America paradoxically a victim of its own polit… |
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The war on terrorism
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David Downing |
Chronicles terrorist activity throughout the world in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, particularly the 9/11 attacks and response to them, emphasizing the causes and solutions. |
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The exception to the rulers
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Amy Goodman |
She reduced Sally Jesse Rafael to tears. Charlie Rose was red in the face after her comments. Bill Clinton called her “hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.” Newt Gingrich said to her, “You’re … |
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Misunderestimated
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Bill Sammon |
"They misunderestimated me," George W. Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American pu… |
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The 9/11 Commission report
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National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. |
Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Including the Executive Summary and the complete Notes Section. Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist … |
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Jawbreaker
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Gary Berntsen,Ralph Pezzullo |
In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA's most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Q… |
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By his own rules
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Bradley Graham |
A penetrating political biography of the controversial Defense Secretary, by a longtime military affairs correspondent for the Washington Post. Once considered among the best and brightest of his gen… |
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