Bamford, James
Summary: "SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries-North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others-and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BAMSummary: Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a line between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWEVonder Brink, Tracy
Summary: "The U.S. Navy traces its roots back to the American Revolutionary War. Then, its small fleet was outnumbered. Today, it is the largest navy in the world. Learn about the roles of sailors and their training, and get an inside look at the different types of ships, aircraft, equipment, and weapons the U.S. Navy uses to complete missions around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 359 VONMiller, Christopher C.
Summary: "President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHRISTOPHER C. MILArkin, William M.
Summary: A leading military expert looks at America's state of perpetual war, and offers solutions such as civilian control of the military and the use of a "Global Security Index" to determine if intervention is truly necessary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 ARKRosenzweig, Paul
Summary: A course of 24 lectures by Professor Paul Rosenzweig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.4482 SURVickers, Michael G.
Summary: "A vivid narrative of a life in intelligence and special operations, from the Cold War to the war on terror. In 1984, Michael Vickers took charge of the CIA's secret campaign against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Inheriting a strategy aimed at imposing costs on Russia, Vickers transformed the campaign into an all-out effort to help the Afghans win their war. More than any other American, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICKERS, MICHAEL G. VICKitfield, James
Summary: "When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 KITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 KITBerry, Steve
Summary: Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet-mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still imbedded in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERThor, Brad
Summary: When a secret organization begins attacking diplomats throughout Europe at the same time a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath works without his mentor to prevent an all-out war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018