Richard A Clarke
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda... A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat." No one has more authority to make that claim than Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national-security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of any one administration, Mr. Clarke insists, but rather...
4) Breakpoint
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When attacks on our computer systems, which we depend on for information and security of the United States is threatened a massive search is launched to find the enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An essential, eye-opening book about cyberterrorism, cyber war, and the next great threat to our national security.
"Cyber War may be the most important book about national security policy in the last several years." –Slate
Former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict. Cyber War is a powerful book about...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Your government failed you . . . and I failed you." Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9-11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks, but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many others. Like her, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right? Through riveting explorations in a variety of fields, the authors uncover a method...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Washington, the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death. On the other side of the world, in the mountains where the drones hunt their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
10) The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents an urgent assessment of how governments, businesses, and everyday citizens can counter and prevent attacks by criminal hackers determined to create a digital war zone.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and deadly international competition. A junior Chinese police detective stumbles onto a global plot that has control of camera and computer systems tracking billions of humans, including people who seem to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Case Against George W. Bush chronicles the presidency of George W. Bush through almost 600 quotes from over ninety authors, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and writers and journalists such as Steve Coll, Frank Rich, Craig Unger, and Bob Woodward. Steven C. Markoff presents sourced evidence of three crimes committed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint...
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