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June 4, 2023 | 9:07 PM ET

The Cipher Brief Book Store

 

THE CIPHER BRIEF BOOK STORE

Cipher Brief Experts are literally writing the history of national security, sharing their expertise, research and often first-hand knowledge of events that are shaping our world. Here are books, authored or co-authored by The Cipher Brief team:

 

 

 

Stanley McChrystal:
Risk: A User’s Guide
Publisher: Portfolio (October 5, 2021)
 
 
Publisher: Portfolio (October 23, 2018)
 
 
Team of Teams
Publisher: Portfolio (May 12, 2015)
 
 
My Share of the Task
Publisher: Portfolio (January 28, 2014)

 

 

Michael Chertoff:
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (July 10, 2018)
 
 
Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (September 25, 2009)

 

 

General Michael Hayden:
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies
Publisher: Penguin Press, May 1, 2018

 

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Publisher: Penguin (February 21, 2017)

 

 

Husain Haqqani:
Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
Publisher: HarperCollins India (April 9, 2018)
Publisher: Hachette (January 1, 2015)
 
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
Publisher: PublicAffairs (November 5, 2013)
 
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace (March 10, 2010)

 

 

David Omand:
How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence
Publisher: Penguin (October 29, 2020)
 
Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence
Publisher: Georgetown University Press (April 2, 2018)

 

 

Chris Fussell:
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Publisher: Portfolio (June 13, 2017)
 
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Publisher: Portfolio (May 12, 2015)

 

 

Admiral James Stavridis:
2034: A Novel of the Next World War
Publisher: Penguin Press (March 9, 2021)

 

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans

Publisher: Penguin Books (June 6, 2017)

 

 

Ali Soufan:
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (May 2, 2017)

 

The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda (with Daniel Freedman)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (September 12, 2011)

 

 

Michael Sulick:
American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 16, 2017)

 

Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
Publisher: Georgetown University Press (January 15, 2014)

 

 

John Nixon:
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
Publisher: Blue Rider Press (December 27, 2016)

 

 

Raymond Kelly:
Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Publisher: Hachette Books (September 8, 2015)

 

 

Bruce Hoffman:
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Publisher: Vintage (February 24, 2015)

 

Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (September 30, 2003)

 

 

Robert Grenier:
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, January 27, 2015

 

 

Tom Ridge: (with Tom McMillan)
Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11/
Publisher: Lyons Press, September 11, 2014

 

 

Steven Ward:
Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, January 15, 2014

 

 

Daniel Markey:
China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Publisher: Oxford University Press (February 3, 2020)

 

No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, October 7, 2013

 

 

Kenneth Pollack:
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
Publisher: Oxford University Press (October  1, 2020)

 

Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 10, 2013)

 

Mitchell D. Silber:
Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat

 

The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (December 13, 2011)

 

 

Emile Nakhleh:
Bahrain: Political Development in a Modernizing Society
Publisher: Lexington Books (May 9, 2011)

 

A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World

Publisher: Princeton University Press (January 18, 2009)

 

 

And these books, authored or co-authored by Under/Cover’s Senior Editor, Bill Harlow:

 

Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorist Trying to Destroy America
By James E. Mitchell, PhD with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Crown Forum; First Edition edition (November 29, 2016)

 

The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism from Al Qa’ida to ISIA
By Michael Morell with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Twelve; 1st edition (May 12, 2015)

 

Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
By Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Threshold Editions (Simon & Schuster) (April 30, 2012)

 

At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
By George J. Tenet with Bill Harlow
Publisher: Harper Collins (April 30, 2007)

 

Circle William: A Novel
By Bill Harlow, Captain, United States Navy (Ret).
Publisher: Scribner (February 18, 1999)

 

 

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