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A gripping, dread-soaked descent into the hidden machinery of modern American warfare. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Dirty Wars.
- chilling
- tense
- shadowy
- dread-soaked
- sobering
- 01
Blackwater
Jeremy Scahill
A chilling, meticulously documented descent into the shadow world of privatized warfare and unchecked corporate power.
- 02
No Easy Day
Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer
A gripping, boots-on-the-ground plunge into the grueling training and high-stakes reality of elite military operators.
- 03
Army of none
Paul Scharre
A chilling, authoritative look at the bleeding edge of military AI that asks who—or what—should hold the power of life and death.
- 04
The Reluctant Spy
John Kiriakou
A gripping, confessional plunge into the high-stakes, morally murky world of counterterrorism and intelligence gathering.
- 05
Kill anything that moves
Nick Turse
A devastating, meticulously documented dismantling of sanitized history that leaves you forever changed.
- 06
Dark territory
Fred M. Kaplan
A gripping, shadowy tour through the classified corridors where the rules of digital warfare were quietly written.
- 07
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
A haunting, erudite dismantling of the myths we tell ourselves about the glory of combat and the intoxicating poison of nationalism.
- 08
No good men among the living
Anand Gopal
A devastating, intimately human portrait of a war fueled by hubris and the ordinary lives crushed in its gears.
- 09
The forever war
Dexter Filkins
A visceral, boots-on-the-ground descent into the chaos, surrealism, and devastating human toll of modern conflict.
- 10
The perfect weapon
David E. Sanger
A gripping, sobering plunge into the invisible wars being waged across our digital networks every single day.
- 11
Surveillance Valley
Yasha Levine
A chilling, deeply researched unmasking of the internet's military origins and the inescapable surveillance woven into modern technology.
- 12
Kill Decision
Daniel Suarez
A terrifyingly plausible, adrenaline-fueled race against a faceless, automated threat that will leave you looking nervously at the sky.
