I loved this book. What a wonderful journey tracing the lives and impact of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the first two women on the Supreme Court. With very different backgrounds and styles, and their own approaches, they helped to make the courts recognize women as capable individuals with full rights in the eyes of the law. Brava!
Linda Hirshman
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
A well researched, in depth expose of the opaque world of zero day exploits. Should be required reading for anyone interested in the cyber ecosystem. Where hackers, governmental agencies, and private companies all jockey and compete for back doors to systems, software vulnerabilities to be exploited, and increasing amounts of money changing hands. Where the good guys are not always good, and the bad guys sometimes can be helpful.
Nicole Perlroth
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends
A personal memoir from the former CEO of Morgan Stanley. Reflections on a career, life decisions and personal relationships, and the saga and ultimate triumph of Morgan Stanley. From one of the most well known Wall St CEOs.
John Mack
Up Close and All In
This is an important book, a book everyone should read. Laura Denardis gives a thorough and articulate deep dive into the risks and considerations of next gen cyber security, the Internet of Things. When digital control systems control physical outcomes, and all the complications that will arise. Bravo!
Laura Denardis
The Internet in Everything
An excellent account of Harry Truman and the timeframe in 1945 between the death of FDR and a reluctant Truman becoming President, and the decision to use the atom bomb on Japan to speed the ending of World War II. Thoughtfully written about Truman being thrown into negotiating the future of the globe with the likes of Churchill and Stalin.
A.J. Baime
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World
The fascinating, true story of Eddie Chapman, a lifelong criminal and con artist, who during WWII used his skills of treachery and deceit to become a highly valued double agent. Oddly loyal to his British countrymen and handlers while tricking the Germans into believing that they had brought him over to their side.
Ben McIntyre
Agent Zigzag
Simply put, this book is important. Christian Brose walks through in great detail – and from an inside seat – the deep challenges facing the US military and military strategy with respect to outdated thinking, old approaches, and obsolete weaponry, particularly in the face of a rising, aggressive, and technologically focused China. His meticulous, methodical presentation of the issues and barriers is quite powerful, and helps to explain why the solutions are so difficult and complex. One can only hope that everyone in Congress and DoD, as well as in the broader military industrial complex, will read this book. Immediately.
Christian Brose
The Kill Chain, Defending America in the Future of High-tech Warfare
Ben Macintyre, the British writer and journalist, is a fabulous author. His thrilling yet true spy stories about Kim Philby and Oleg Gordievsky are both terrific reads. The incredible ways in which the intelligence services in the US, UK, and Russia dance with and around one another are astounding. And the ways in which these services convince spies for the other side to become double agents – by appealing to hubris, ideology, and often money – are simply incredible. Pleasurable and fascinating reads. Can’t wait to read more of Ben Macintyre’s works.
Ben Macintyre
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The amazing story of the daring young woman who led the Alliance Network of the French Resistance during World War II. How an “all too easily dismissed” woman created a deep network of brave resistance fighters and indomitable information handlers funneling intelligence to the British and Allies, helped track German movements and installations on land and sea and in the air. A staggering tale of bravery against daunting odds.
Lynne Olsen
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Very interesting insights as to why we do the things we do and what it takes to change our habits and practices. Excellent case studies of human behavior and the underlying motivations and response to stimuli.
Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
An important work that explains in depth the role of autonomous weaponry in modern warfare. Instructive discussions of key topics in the application of AI in 21st century conflict: the difference between autonomous capabilities and freedom in decision making; manned and unmanned systems in military operations; lethal decision making in machine-to-machine combat; robots, drones, and autonomous tanks in battlefield operations; and rules of engagement and degree of autonomy from country to country.
Paul Scharre
Army of None
A well researched and clearly articulated account of Russian hacking around the 2016 election and why effective cyber policy is so difficult to develop.
David Sanger
The Perfect Weapon
Thoughtful and well researched …how nations and businesses are fighting for control of the internet.
Scott Malcomson
Splinternet How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web
Extremely well researched and thoughtfully written. Terrific insights into the very human decision making that led us into the Vietnam War.
Gordon Goldstein
Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
Wonderful and balanced perspectives on the foreign policy machines in the Bush and Obama administrations. The good, the bad, and the unfortunate…
David Rothkopf
National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear
A brilliant read describing the incredible and unique high-tech ecosystem in Israel.
Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Start-Up Nation The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
Thought provoking questions about the cognitive capabilities of man and machines.
Byron Reese
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
An incredibly interesting read about that tracks the strategic, and military, and geopolitical value of the seas.
Admiral James Stavridis
Sea Power
Excellent insights into the policies and approaches among nations in a digital world.
Adam Segal
The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age