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Ten books across security, risk, deterrence, AI, intelligence, and operational tradecraft.

Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Two Sides of the Same Coin

A Plain-English Guide to How American Politics Actually Works

A plain-English guide to how American politics actually works — cutting through the noise to explain the systems, incentives, and forces that really drive American political life.

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The War God's Face Has Become Indistinct (2nd Edition)

The War God's Face Has Become Indistinct (2nd Edition)

China's Unrestricted Warfare Doctrine and the War America Doesn't Know It's Fighting

Newly expanded and updated second edition. In 1999, two PLA colonels published Unrestricted Warfare — a treatise declaring every domain of human activity a battlefield. This book documents its execution: Volt Typhoon, Salt Typhoon, academic warfare, the long game of intelligence infiltration, and the wider ecosystem of Iranian, Russian, and North Korean adversaries who learned Beijing's playbook and improvised. This edition substantially expands every campaign, adds full chapters on the Iranian and Russian threat ecosystems, updates the analysis through the latest disclosures, and introduces the Mark Heptad — a seven-driver adversary motivation model for understanding why adversaries act, not just how.