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The 9/11 Wars

by Jason Burke  · 1 Sep 2011  · 885pp  · 271,563 words

in fear. The country was divided into three. In the mountainous north were the 4 million Kurds, semi-autonomous under the umbrella of the northern no-fly zone patrolled by US and British aircraft since 1991 and set on defending their precarious liberty not just from Baghdad but from Ankara too. Below Mosul

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expressed negative sentiments about bin Laden’. Robert Burns, ‘Iraqi: Saddam “delighted” in terror attacks on US’, Associated Press, September 22, 2010. 19. Technically outside the no-fly zone and thus the haven, Mosul and its tradition of Islamism had been and was an important factor. 20. For more see Burke, Al-Qaeda, pp

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz  · 20 Mar 2018  · 328pp  · 96,141 words

access to space, especially in its new role as something of a global police force in the post-Soviet, pre-9/11 era. Enforcing a no-fly zone over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the most active military mission at the time, relied on satellite communications and imaging and positioning technology. Without the ability

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

by Nicholas Schou  · 16 Mar 2010  · 259pp  · 87,875 words

deliver food at the concert, but after calling every airport in Southern California, he concluded that the Federal Aviation Administration had declared Laguna Beach a no-fly zone. “They probably did that because of the plane that dropped all the acid,” he says. “We needed food, so I drove up to L.A

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

by Nick Bilton  · 15 Mar 2017  · 349pp  · 109,304 words

that had been built on a wing and a prayer had siphoned people’s retirements into thin air and collapsed, leaving San Francisco a metaphorical no-fly zone. What about going east? Wasn’t there opportunity on Wall Street for someone as clever as Ross? No way. The banks were collapsing from the

Leviathan Wakes

by James S. A. Corey  · 14 Jun 2011  · 648pp  · 170,770 words

a battlewagon like the Donnie, but not much else would. She opens up with her point defense network and rail guns, she can create a no-fly zone a thousand klicks across. They could be killin’ those six ships with torpedoes already, ’cept I think they’re as confused about who they are

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

by Jeff Guinn  · 24 Jan 2023  · 438pp  · 126,284 words

it was the media, rather than a fresh assault by ATF. The FAA promptly declared the skies over and around Mount Carmel to be a no-fly zone. ATF’s retreat had not been entirely complete. Agent Robert White assigned a few volunteers to set up perimeters, mostly around the southwest corner of

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end pretty.” Some cable and major news networks had long-range cameras on the ground and helicopters hovering on the edges of the Mount Carmel no-fly zone, so Americans all over the country were able to have a relatively unobstructed view of the chaotic proceedings. * * * About 9 a.m., bugs picked up

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

out of the way of planes and helicopters and other drones. The system will also allow the FAA to track the drones and to create no-fly zones during emergencies. If drones start frequenting the skies, Amazon can expect serious blowback from local communities. Some worry about privacy—are the cameras on the

Effendi

by Jon Courtenay Grimwood  · 1 Jan 2002  · 442pp  · 115,860 words

thing,” said Ahmed, tapping his throat mike. “What do I tell them, Boss?” “Tell them that, as of now, airspace over El Iskandryia is a no-fly zone. No overflights, nothing. Tell the pilot if he’s not landed in one minute we’ll blast him out of the sky. Final warning.” “No

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright  · 26 Sep 2006  · 604pp  · 177,329 words

the Kingdom, especially after Dick Cheney’s well-known pledge that they would leave. Ostensibly, the troops remained in order to enforce the UN-mandated no-fly zone over Iraq. By 1992, however, and certainly by 1993, there were enough new basing agreements in the region that the Americans could have withdrawn without

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Arabia, at the Khobar Towers military-housing complex in Dhahran. The building served as the barracks for the 4404th Airlift Wing, which was enforcing the no-fly zone in Iraq. Nineteen American soldiers had died and nearly four hundred other people were injured. O’Neill assembled a team of more than a hundred

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos  · 1 Jan 1994  · 382pp  · 116,351 words

and configuration of enemy mine fields. In January 1993, when the outgoing Bush administration decided to bomb Saddam Hussein’s missile batteries in the southern “no-fly” zone, the U-2 was once again providing the vital intelligence data preliminary to the bombing. On the day before the bombing raid, I received a

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard  · 15 Mar 2006

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by Nicholas Schmidle  · 3 May 2021  · 342pp  · 101,370 words

Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

by Medea Benjamin  · 8 Apr 2013  · 188pp  · 54,942 words

Beautiful Visualization

by Julie Steele  · 20 Apr 2010

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 14 Oct 2012  · 812pp  · 180,057 words

In the Company of Heroes

by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov  · 1 Dec 2006  · 402pp  · 123,199 words

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by Mervyn King  · 3 Mar 2016  · 464pp  · 139,088 words

The Caryatids

by Bruce Sterling  · 24 Feb 2009  · 387pp  · 105,250 words

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by Norman Polmar and Michael White  · 1 Dec 2010  · 241pp  · 64,424 words

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by Andrew Cockburn  · 10 Mar 2015  · 389pp  · 108,344 words

Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution

by Richard Whittle  · 15 Sep 2014  · 455pp  · 131,569 words

Work! Consume! Die!

by Frankie Boyle  · 12 Oct 2011

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by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

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by Matt Taibbi  · 7 Oct 2019  · 357pp  · 99,456 words

Antarctica

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 6 Jul 1987  · 607pp  · 185,228 words

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by Robert Fisk  · 2 Jan 2005  · 1,800pp  · 596,972 words

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Fick, Nathaniel C.(October 3, 2005) Hardcover

by Nathaniel C. Fick  · 14 Apr 2006

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson  · 3 Jun 2019  · 993pp  · 318,161 words

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by Dr Peter Lee  · 14 Jul 2019

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

by Alwyn W. Turner  · 4 Sep 2013  · 1,013pp  · 302,015 words

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by P. W. Singer  · 1 Jan 2010  · 797pp  · 227,399 words

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by Kevin Cook  · 30 Jan 2023  · 277pp  · 86,352 words

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

by David Nott  · 21 Feb 2019  · 327pp  · 112,191 words

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon  · 5 Oct 2020  · 340pp  · 101,675 words

Discover Maui

by Lonely Planet

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by Ben Rhodes  · 4 Jun 2018  · 470pp  · 148,444 words

Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

by Joshua S. Goldstein  · 15 Sep 2011  · 511pp  · 148,310 words

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 30 Jul 2007  · 516pp  · 1,220 words

Halting State

by Charles Stross  · 9 Jul 2011  · 350pp  · 107,834 words

A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout

by Carl Safina  · 18 Apr 2011

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

by Peter Warren Singer  · 1 Jan 2003  · 482pp  · 161,169 words

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Nov 2012

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham  · 8 Nov 2016  · 519pp  · 136,708 words

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

by Jeremy Scahill  · 1 Jan 2007  · 924pp  · 198,159 words

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

by Peter Baker  · 21 Oct 2013

The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed

by Carl Honore  · 29 Jan 2013  · 266pp  · 87,411 words

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen  · 22 Apr 2013  · 525pp  · 116,295 words

Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

by Yaroslav Trofimov  · 9 Jan 2024  · 399pp  · 112,620 words

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

by Steve Coll  · 27 Feb 2024  · 738pp  · 196,803 words

The Reluctant Spy

by John Kiriakou  · 30 Jan 2009  · 188pp  · 67,427 words

Bosnia and Herzegovina

by Tim. Clancy  · 15 Mar 2022  · 716pp  · 209,067 words

The Gun

by C. J. Chivers  · 12 Oct 2010  · 845pp  · 197,050 words

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way

by Nick Cohen  · 15 Jul 2015  · 414pp  · 121,243 words

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

by Alex Zevin  · 12 Nov 2019  · 767pp  · 208,933 words

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer  · 18 Apr 2016  · 297pp  · 83,563 words

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny  · 7 Apr 2008  · 487pp  · 147,891 words

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan  · 26 Aug 2015  · 1,042pp  · 273,092 words

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

by Ruchir Sharma  · 8 Apr 2012  · 411pp  · 114,717 words

Interventions

by Noam Chomsky

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska  · 5 Jun 2024  · 361pp  · 100,834 words

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by Keir Giles  · 24 Oct 2024  · 296pp  · 81,440 words

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)

by William Poundstone  · 1 Jan 2010  · 519pp  · 104,396 words

SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World

by Sandra Navidi  · 24 Jan 2017  · 831pp  · 98,409 words

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton  · 15 Oct 2012  · 280pp  · 85,091 words

Why We're Polarized

by Ezra Klein  · 28 Jan 2020  · 412pp  · 96,251 words

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks  · 8 Aug 2016  · 548pp  · 147,919 words

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg  · 5 Nov 2019  · 363pp  · 105,039 words

Armed Humanitarians

by Nathan Hodge  · 1 Sep 2011  · 390pp  · 119,527 words

Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer

by Alan Huffman  · 12 Mar 2013  · 244pp  · 82,548 words

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

by Henry Jenkins  · 31 Jul 2006

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

by M. E. Sarotte  · 29 Nov 2021  · 791pp  · 222,536 words

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia  · 20 Mar 2024  · 336pp  · 91,806 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna  · 4 Mar 2008  · 537pp  · 158,544 words

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

by Parag Khanna  · 11 Jan 2011  · 251pp  · 76,868 words

The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century

by Robert D. Kaplan  · 6 Mar 2018  · 247pp  · 78,961 words

Because We Say So

by Noam Chomsky

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor  · 14 Jun 2012  · 293pp  · 89,712 words

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 20 Mar 2007  · 214pp  · 57,614 words

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

by Ian Bremmer  · 30 Apr 2012  · 234pp  · 63,149 words

And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

by Richard Engel  · 9 Feb 2016  · 251pp  · 67,801 words

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

by Alex von Tunzelmann  · 7 Jul 2021  · 337pp  · 87,236 words

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

by Marc Lewis Phd  · 13 Jul 2015  · 288pp  · 73,297 words

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

by Richard Haass  · 10 Jan 2017  · 286pp  · 82,970 words

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

by Jane F. McAlevey  · 14 Apr 2016  · 423pp  · 92,798 words

Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment

by Noam Chomsky  · 15 Mar 2010  · 258pp  · 63,367 words

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

by Joan Smith  · 5 Apr 2019