operational security

The 9/11 Wars

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

of checkpoints when they finally headed into Afghanistan to lead what they hoped would become the revolt that would overthrow the Taliban.18 Haq’s operational security had been lamentable, with the whole of Peshawar aware that he had ordered leaflets and paper flags from local printers in preparation for an expedition

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

by Shaun Walker  · 15 Apr 2025  · 465pp  · 155,902 words

other illegal residencies in the United States. Each would be run directly from Moscow, and no residency would have knowledge of the others, to boost operational security. The Center gave Makayev $25,000 in cash, a huge amount at the time, and assigned him his first major task: to act as controller

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picked up office gossip that might put the Americans and their allies onto the scent of other illegals. He also knew everything about communication channels, operational security, and new illegals in training. It was an unmitigated disaster for the SVR. In 2013, a microphone hidden by the FBI caught two of the

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

by Rory Cormac  · 14 Jun 2018  · 407pp

coup attempt was betrayed.116 After problematic experiences with leaky émigrés in Albania, this initial failure served only to remind Whitehall of the difficulties of operational security. This time the culprit was a young Imperial Guard captain and communist who had informed the leftist Tudeh Party.117 Mossadeq evaded capture and arrested

The Intelligence War Against the IRA

by Thomas Leahy  · 26 Mar 2020  · 1,149pp  · 141,412 words

IRA was not completely ‘rotten’ with informers by the 1990s.100 It has often been overlooked that the cell structure provided the IRA with ‘greater operational security’ than it had had before 1975 in areas such as Belfast. In particular, cells often restricted foreknowledge about operations.101 A former British soldier recalled

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman  · 20 May 2020  · 562pp  · 153,825 words

of those old comic book advertisements: “If U Cn Rd Ths Msg . . .” Delighted, even vindicated, I found that I could. “I appreciate your concern for operational security, particularly in the digital environment,” Verax wrote in his next message. “Many journalists are still exceedingly weak on this topic, which leaves their interests and

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ever-thicker walls of electronic and physical self-defense, and I had access to world-class expertise, but I had not been formally trained in operational security. Put less gently, I was an amateur playing against professionals. Twice I left my keys in the front door overnight. Once I met a source

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

the naked eye, that allowed the NSA to match the document back to a machine in its offices. This was a tragic lapse in reporters’ “operational security.” In August 23, 2018, Ms. Winner was sentenced to sixty-three months in prison. See Amy B. Wang, “Convicted Leaker Reality Winner Thanks Trump after

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011

by Steve Coll  · 23 Feb 2004  · 956pp  · 288,981 words

Afghanistan. Reports and photography from unilateral agents were matched against satellite imagery to fill in maps of camps and urban neighborhoods. Bin Laden practiced intensive operational security. He was wary of telephones. He allowed no Afghans into his personal bodyguard, only Arabs he had known and trusted for many years. He varied

Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro and Vestal Mcintyre  · 12 May 2018  · 517pp  · 147,591 words

the start and place a high value on consistency. Being able to track trends over time is critical for learning. Moreover, despite the risk to operational security that might come with disseminating data for research, sharing those data enables benefits that come from rigorous analysis of these complex problems.54 Faster sharing

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

by Ronen Bergman  · 30 Jan 2018  · 1,071pp  · 295,220 words

instructed Unit 8200, which eavesdropped on Palestinian communications, to report anything they heard about the discussion directly and solely to him. Officially, this was for operational security—any leak that got out to the various Palestinian factions could derail the talks. Unofficially, Rabin wasn’t entirely certain that men who’d spent

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’m glad that some of them left.” In light of the demand for more and more operations, Dagan also abolished some of the Mossad’s operational security protocols that had been in place for a long time, some of them for decades. Before he took over, if there weren’t enough passports

Beautiful security

by Andy Oram and John Viega  · 15 Dec 2009  · 302pp  · 82,233 words

five high-level staff looked at one member who had not, up to that point, stood out in our minds as the senior person (nice operational security on their part). He gazed directly back at me and said, “We were just talking about what you have managed to put together here.” “What

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at a conference with the text “Security is less important than performance, which is less important than functionality,” followed by a slide with the text “Operational security is a business support function; get over your ego and accept it.” As a security expert, of course, I would never diminish the importance of

Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq

by Francis Fukuyama  · 22 Dec 2005

Clear and Present Danger

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1989  · 914pp  · 270,937 words

Executive Orders

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1996

Rainbow Six

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1998

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

Red Rabbit

by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick  · 2 Jan 2002

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1989

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield  · 29 Mar 2020  · 1,380pp  · 190,710 words

Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq

by Peter R. Mansoor, Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan  · 31 Aug 2009  · 423pp  · 126,375 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

Inside British Intelligence

by Gordon Thomas

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan  · 25 Feb 2020  · 443pp  · 116,832 words

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts  · 28 May 2018  · 324pp  · 96,491 words

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

by Fred Kaplan  · 1 Mar 2016  · 383pp  · 105,021 words

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart  · 6 Nov 2021

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

by Kevin Mitnick, Mikko Hypponen and Robert Vamosi  · 14 Feb 2017  · 305pp  · 93,091 words

The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke and Lindsey Lacz  · 11 Jul 2016  · 304pp  · 97,603 words

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin  · 5 Sep 2011  · 328pp  · 100,381 words

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

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

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud  · 17 Jan 2023  · 350pp  · 115,802 words

The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008

by Thomas E. Ricks  · 14 Oct 2009  · 509pp  · 153,061 words

Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World

by Clinton V. Oster, John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn  · 28 May 1992  · 217pp  · 152 words

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

by Eric O'Neill  · 1 Mar 2019  · 299pp  · 88,375 words

A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

by Lewis Sorley  · 2 Jun 1999  · 565pp  · 160,402 words

Against All Enemies

by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep  · 13 Jun 2011  · 640pp  · 177,786 words

The Hunt for Red October

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1984  · 594pp  · 165,413 words

The Teeth of the Tiger

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1998  · 553pp  · 151,139 words

Without Remorse

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1993

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

by Paul Tucker  · 21 Apr 2018  · 920pp  · 233,102 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

The Prefect

by Alastair Reynolds  · 2 Jan 2007  · 764pp  · 188,807 words

Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds

by Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer  · 27 Jun 2011  · 289pp  · 90,176 words

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden  · 24 Oct 2022  · 392pp  · 114,189 words

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

by Andy Greenberg  · 15 Nov 2022  · 494pp  · 121,217 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor  · 15 Aug 2022  · 829pp  · 187,394 words

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman  · 17 Jul 2023  · 329pp  · 99,504 words

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg  · 13 Apr 2017

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts

by David Gerard  · 23 Jul 2017  · 309pp  · 54,839 words

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid  · 27 Jun 2016  · 509pp  · 132,327 words

GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich  · 10 Jun 2010  · 826pp  · 231,966 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 17 Apr 2017

The Defence of the Realm

by Christopher Andrew  · 2 Aug 2010  · 1,744pp  · 458,385 words

Jennifer Morgue

by Stross, Charles  · 12 Jan 2006

A Theory of the Drone

by Gregoire Chamayou  · 23 Apr 2013  · 335pp  · 82,528 words

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

by Julia Angwin  · 25 Feb 2014  · 422pp  · 104,457 words

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do

by Brett King  · 26 Dec 2012  · 382pp  · 120,064 words

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East

by James Barr  · 15 Feb 2011  · 750pp  · 169,026 words

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy  · 25 Feb 2020  · 706pp  · 202,591 words

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan  · 22 Jan 2014  · 271pp  · 52,814 words

The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities

by Justin Schuh  · 20 Nov 2006  · 2,054pp  · 359,149 words

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

by Bradley Hope  · 1 Nov 2022  · 257pp  · 77,612 words

The Good, the Bad and the History

by Jodi Taylor  · 21 Jun 2023  · 506pp  · 132,373 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 16 Mar 2017  · 1,237pp  · 227,370 words

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

by Deborah D. Avant  · 17 Oct 2010  · 872pp  · 135,196 words

Backup & Recovery

by W. Curtis Preston  · 9 Feb 2009  · 1,266pp  · 278,632 words

Merchants' War

by Stross, Charles  · 30 Sep 2007  · 414pp  · 123,666 words

Revolution Business

by Stross, Charles  · 9 Apr 2009  · 358pp  · 103,103 words

My Journey as a Combat Medic: From Desert Storm to Operation Enduring Freedom

by Patrick Thibeault  · 23 Jul 2012  · 172pp  · 61,599 words

Halting State

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

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson  · 26 Mar 2019  · 499pp  · 144,278 words

Fuller Memorandum

by Stross, Charles  · 14 Jan 2010  · 366pp  · 107,145 words

Glasshouse

by Charles Stross  · 14 Jun 2006  · 443pp  · 123,526 words

The Hacker Crackdown

by Bruce Sterling  · 15 Mar 1992  · 345pp  · 105,722 words

Ubuntu 15.04 Server with systemd: Administration and Reference

by Richard Petersen  · 15 May 2015

Silk Road

by Eileen Ormsby  · 1 Nov 2014  · 269pp  · 79,285 words

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy

by David Gelles  · 30 May 2022  · 318pp  · 91,957 words

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

by Sean Naylor  · 1 Mar 2005  · 615pp  · 191,843 words

Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution

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

Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989

by Kristina Spohr  · 23 Sep 2019  · 1,123pp  · 328,357 words

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 9 Jun 2010  · 584pp  · 187,436 words

The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks

by The "Guardian", David Leigh and Luke Harding  · 1 Feb 2011  · 322pp  · 99,066 words

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

by Jeremy Scahill  · 22 Apr 2013  · 1,117pp  · 305,620 words

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

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

Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11

by Seth G. Jones  · 29 Apr 2012  · 649pp  · 172,080 words

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding  · 7 Feb 2014  · 266pp  · 80,018 words

Pandora's Star

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 2 Mar 2004  · 1,234pp  · 356,472 words

Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice

by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones  · 27 Apr 2020  · 419pp  · 102,488 words

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

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

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

by Kerry Howley  · 21 Mar 2023

The Last Astronaut

by David Wellington  · 22 Jul 2019  · 460pp  · 130,621 words

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House

by Nada Bakos  · 3 Jun 2019

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne  · 9 Sep 2019  · 482pp  · 121,173 words

Habeas Data: Privacy vs. The Rise of Surveillance Tech

by Cyrus Farivar  · 7 May 2018  · 397pp  · 110,222 words

The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

by James Rickards  · 7 Apr 2014  · 466pp  · 127,728 words

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald  · 12 May 2014  · 253pp  · 75,772 words

Armed Humanitarians

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

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh  · 1 Jan 1999

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais  · 16 Sep 2019

Permanent Record

by Edward Snowden  · 16 Sep 2019  · 324pp  · 106,699 words

Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

by Brian Krebs  · 18 Nov 2014  · 252pp  · 75,349 words

Network Security Through Data Analysis: Building Situational Awareness

by Michael S Collins  · 23 Feb 2014  · 446pp  · 102,421 words

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

by David Bellavia  · 4 Sep 2007  · 325pp  · 92,272 words

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely  · 3 Apr 2013  · 898pp  · 266,274 words

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom  · 3 Jun 2014  · 574pp  · 164,509 words

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

by Peter Baker  · 21 Oct 2013

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

by James Rickards  · 15 Nov 2016  · 354pp  · 105,322 words

Reaper Force: The Inside Story of Britain’s Drone Wars

by Dr Peter Lee  · 14 Jul 2019

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass

by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri  · 6 May 2019  · 346pp  · 97,330 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

by P. W. Singer and August Cole  · 28 Jun 2015  · 537pp  · 149,628 words

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi  · 15 Sep 2009  · 523pp  · 144,971 words

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

by Andy Greenberg  · 12 Sep 2012  · 461pp  · 125,845 words

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Scott Anderson  · 5 Aug 2013

The Disappearing Act

by Florence de Changy  · 24 Dec 2020

The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto

by Benjamin Wallace  · 18 Mar 2025  · 431pp  · 116,274 words

The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America

by Ed Offley  · 25 Mar 2014  · 309pp  · 84,539 words

Writing Effective Use Cases

by Alistair Cockburn  · 30 Sep 2000

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

by Stephen Witt  · 15 Jun 2015  · 315pp  · 93,522 words

Suburban Nation

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck  · 14 Sep 2010  · 321pp  · 85,267 words

What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Oct 2007

The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely  · 27 Jun 2012  · 258pp  · 73,109 words

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

by Sean Parnell and John Bruning  · 28 Feb 2012  · 400pp  · 109,754 words

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

by Steve Olson  · 28 Jul 2020  · 378pp  · 103,136 words

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner  · 14 Sep 2015  · 317pp  · 100,414 words

The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

by Brian Christian  · 1 Mar 2011  · 370pp  · 94,968 words

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

by Joan Smith  · 5 Apr 2019

Home Maintenance Checklist: Complete DIY Guide for Homeowners: 101 Ways to Save Money and Look After Your Home

by Ian Anderson  · 6 Mar 2019

This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone  · 15 Jul 2019  · 132pp  · 37,391 words