Directorate S

Directorate S

By
Steve Coll
Steve Coll
2018 • 784 pages

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42 books

National Security

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Jer
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government?s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
The art of intelligence
Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service
T-Minus AI
Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Propaganda & Persuasion

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68 books

Intelligence

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Jer
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government?s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
The walls have ears : the greatest intelligence operation of World War II
The art of intelligence
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops
No Place to Hide

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17 books

Middle East

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Jer
Turning Points in Middle Eastern History
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
A Peace to End All Peace

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13 books

Special Operations

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Jer
Sea Stories
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Propaganda & Persuasion
Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century
Deliberate Discomfort: How U.S. Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent

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1,023 books

History

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Steven Rongley
Medieval Medicine
The Conquering Tide
Grant
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Deutschland einig Vaterland

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54 books

History

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Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America
Intelligence in war
The Mask of Command
The First World War
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme

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4 books

International Affairs

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JSR
The Prince
The Book of the Courtier
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
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36 books

Must Buy

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Ninety Percent of Everything
The Discovery of the Bismarck
We, the Navigators
The Raven Tower
Gods of Jade and Shadow
How to Tell a Great Story

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50 books

Nonf History

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Lucille Ancrath
Sex with Kings
The History of White People
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Dancing Bears

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5 books

Place Middle East

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Lucille Ancrath
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

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101 books

Les Espions

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Bourne Identity
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Day of the Jackal
Eye of the Needle A Novel
The Odessa file.
Nonofficial Asset

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68 books

Mission Critical

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Eugene Wilder
Last Child in the Woods
The Diversity of Life
Reading in the Brain
The World Without Us
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
American Gods
Rabbit, Run

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21 books

Middle East And Foreign Policy

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Eugene Wilder
Fiasco
Thirteen days in September : Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
13 Hours
The Forever War
The Terror Years
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

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29 books

Must Haves

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Columbine
Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
The Worst Hard Time
In Shackleton's footsteps
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
House of Leaves
The Lords of Easy Money

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357 books

Owned Unread

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Brent Parkey
Giant
Destiny and power
Some luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

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50 books

W Crooked Interviews

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The World As It Is
Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan
So Here’s the Thing…
Yes We (Still) Can

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30 books

War

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Jer
Russian "Hybrid Warfare": Resurgence and Politicization
Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Ghost Fleet
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War