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Review: World Order – Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History – by Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger is a very famous international American statesman. This is the first book of his that I have read. I was drawn to exploring his views as I have always noticed him throughout my life as being a key figure in international politics. The book is a neat summary of global politics and its… Continue reading
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Review: A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence – by Dickie Davis, David Kilcullen, Greg Mills and David Spencer
David Kilcullen has had a few books included on my shelf recently. As a military expert on Guerrilla Warfare, I was thrilled to find this new book on the Colombian Civil War which he coauthors with a group of specialists who went on extensive field research around Colombia, with a view to learning lessons about… Continue reading
Afghanistan, Bogota, COcaine, Colombia, Colombian Civil War, Communism, Communist, Cuba, David Kilcullen, ELN, FARC, FARC-EP, Guerrilla, Havana, jungle, Latin America, Malaya, Manuel Marulanda, Marulanda, militaryt, narcotics, naroctrafficking, paramilitaries, peace, peace talks, PLan Colombia, Revolution, Russia, Soviet Union, USA, war -
Review: Behind The Enigma – The Authorised History of GCHQ – Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency – by John Ferris
This is a weighty tome (800 plus pages) and the authoritative history of perhaps the least glamorous of the U.K.’s principal security services. However, the facts illustrated in this book clearly demonstrates the critical role GCHQ plays in national security and perhaps one could argue is more relevant and more important than its more glamorous… Continue reading
Alan Turing, Arabic, Argentina, Australia, Bletchley Park, Canada, Cheltenham, China, Chinese, COMINT, Commonwealth, computers, cryptanalytic, cryptography, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, Enigma, espionage, Falklands, Five Eyes, GCHQ, German, Germany, hacking, HUMINT, indonesia, intelligence, Islam, islamic jihad, Israel, Jihad, Jihadists, John Ferris, Konfrontasi, languages, linguists, Mandarin Chinese, maths, MI5, mi6, Military, National Secuirty Agency, Nazi, New Zealand, NSA, Palestine, Russia, Salafi, SIGINT, Soviet Union, spy, tech warfare, Translation, U.K., UKUSA, United Kingdom, United STates of America, USA, USSR, World War 2 -
Review: The Third Man and The Fallen Idol – by Graham Greene
Graham Greene is a classic early twentieth century English novelist. I remember studying Brighton Rock for my school GCSEs.The Third Man is set in the murky underworld of post World War 2 Vienna. The Austrian capital has been quartered into four allied zones: English, French, American and Russian. A front of the Cold War there… Continue reading
assassin, Austria, Brighton Rock, Britain, cold war, Colonel Calloway, DRUGS DRUG DEALING RACKET, France, funeral, Graham Greene, Harry lIME, Hungarian, Londion, murder, Nazi, PENICILLIN, polceman, police, ROLLO MARTINS, Russia, sewer, Soviet Union, Suicide, the fallen idol, the third man, U.K., USA, Vienna -
Review: From Pablo to Osama – Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation – by Michael Kenney
This book is an academic study of two of the major opponents of Western governments today. It examines both Narcotraffickers and Cartels and also Terrorists, mainly Islamic terrorists. Not only does it cover the methods and practices of these two criminal enterprises in their working practices, the book also examines the law enforcement approaches in… Continue reading
Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Cali, Cali Cartel, Cartel, CIA, COcaine, Colombia, criminal, DEA, drug trafficking, FBI, From Pablo to Osama, Islam, islamic jihad, Islamic Terror, islamic terrorist, Jihad, Medellin, medellin cartel, metis, Muslim, narcotrafficking, Osama Bin LAden, Pablo Escobar, politician, suicide bomber, tecne, terrorism, terrorist, US Army, USA -
Review: Jim Morrison – Life, Death, Legend – by Stephen Davis
love Jim. The Doors are my most favourite band and I’ve read a lot of material that has been released about them since their emergence in the 1960s rock movement out in Los Angeles, USA. This is probably the most definitive and largest biography that I have yet encountered on the short life of Jim… Continue reading
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Review: Black Russian – by Vladimir Alexandrov
This is an exciting tale from the turn of the twentieth century of an eccentric man of the world who encountered directly some of the most important global events of that era. It is a biography of Frederick Bruce Thomas or Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas. He was born to former plantation slaves in Mississippi, USA in… Continue reading
20th century, abolition, AMerica, Atatürk, Atlantic, Black Russian, Bolsheviks, Chicago, classist, Clubbing, Constantinople, entertainment, Europe, Frederick Bruce Thomas, French, French Army, Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas, istanbul, jazz, London, Mississippi, New York, New. York City, nighclubs, Odessa, ottoman Empire, race, racism, restaurant, Revolution, Russia, russian revolution, slavery, slaves, Soviet Union, Soviets, theatre, Turks, US Embassy, USA, World War 1 -
Review: Unrestricted Warfare – Wake Up, America! China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui are from a new generation of Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers. They have mused upon the situation of modern military affairs and developed this theoretical book on war to describe the status quo as it was around the turn of the Millenium. The book is a translation of the original… Continue reading
9/11, alexander the great, AMerica, China, Chinese Army, Chinese Military, clausewitz, Communism, Communist, don quixote, Gulf War, Iraq, king wu, Mandarin Chinese, military strategy, mlitary, modernwarfare, People's Liberation Army, PLA, Qiao Liang, sun tzu, tech, Translation, US Military, USA, Wang Xiangsui, war, War On Terror -
Review: Blood, Gun, Money – How America Arms Gangs and Cartels – by Ioan Grillo
This is the third Grillo installment that I have tackled and Ioan is an author who is a gritty investigative journalist who tends to put himself into quite dangerous situations in order to explore very controversial and often violent global subjects. Following on from Grillo’s groundbreaking work on Mexican cartels, this book, which explores the… Continue reading
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Review: Wired for War by P.W.Singer
Although by the time I finally finished reading this book it was perhaps over a decade old and hence due the hi-tech nature of the subject, perhaps dated, I gained a lot of new knowledge about the robotics industry, technological progress in society and in particular, the application of robotics to warfare. Nowadays everybody from… Continue reading
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