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Cole's Digital Danger Is A Useful Guide For The Wrong Audience

Digital Danger

Cole's Digital Danger Is A Useful Guide For The Wrong Audience

BOOK REVIEW: Digital Danger: AI, Cybersecurity and the Fight for our FutureBy Dr. Eric Cole / Amplify Publishing,Reviewed by: Glenn S. GerstellThe [...] More

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The Moral Center of the Next World War

The Next World War

The Moral Center of the Next World War

BOOK REVIEW: The Next World War: The New Age of Global Conflict and the Fight to Stop ItBy Peter Apps / Wildfire PublishingReviewed by: Jean-Thomas [...] More

When Archaeologists Became Spies

The American School Of Spies

When Archaeologists Became Spies

Book Review: The American School of Spies: The Archeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece”By Stephan [...] More

The Micro-History of Weimar, Germany: A Case Study in Democratic Fragility

Weimar

The Micro-History of Weimar, Germany: A Case Study in Democratic Fragility

BOOK REVIEW: Weimar: Life on the Edge of CatastropheBy Katja Hoyer / Basic BooksReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer: Jean-Thomas Nicole is a [...] More

Rally the Rimlands

Breaking The Axis

Rally the Rimlands

Book Review Breaking the New Axis: A Grand Strategy for EurasiaBy Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem/ Naval Institute PressReviewed by: Michael J. ArdThe [...] More

Raddatz Gives Voice to Those Who Served

The Hero Next Door

Raddatz Gives Voice to Those Who Served

BOOK REVIEW: The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and PurposeBy Martha Raddatz | Avid Reader Press/Simon & SchusterReviewed by Heidi Vierow, [...] More

The Long Reach Of Old Wars

The Expediter

The Long Reach Of Old Wars

BOOK REVIEW: THE EXPEDITERBy Kenneth Dekleva Reviewed by: Bill HarlowThe Reviewer — Bill Harlow served as chief spokesman for the CIA from 1997 to [...] More

Great Powers Are Back … Yet Again

The Return of the Great Powers

Great Powers Are Back … Yet Again

BOOK REVIEW: The Return of Great PowersBy Brendan Simms | Basic BooksREVIEWER: Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The [...] More

Five Traitors, One Last Book Please

Stalin's Apostles

Five Traitors, One Last Book Please

BOOK REVIEW: Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet EmpireBy Antonia Senior/ Public AffairsReviewed by: Nick FishwickThe [...] More

War, Climate, and AI Collide in "2084"

2084 (A Novel of Future War)

War, Climate, and AI Collide in "2084"

BOOK REVIEW: 2084: A Novel of the Climate WarBy Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, USN / Penguin PressREVIEWED BY: Joe ZacksTHE REVIEWER: [...] More

Guns Don’t Kill People…And Neither Do Robots (Yet).

Project Maven

Guns Don’t Kill People…And Neither Do Robots (Yet).

By Katrina Manson / W.W.Norton & CompanyReviewed by: Neal A. Pollard The Reviewer – Neal A. Pollard is a partner at Control Risks Group and was the [...] More

The Admiral Behind Chinese Naval Modernization

China's Mahan

The Admiral Behind Chinese Naval Modernization

Book Review: China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy by Xiaobing Li (Naval Institute Press, 2026).The Reviewer [...] More

Pope Leo XIV: A Citizen of the World

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV: A Citizen of the World

BOOK REVIEW: Pope Leo XIV: The BiographyBy Elise Ann Allen/Penguin Random House Christian/ImageReviewed by: Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth [...] More