14 Best nonfiction books like The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

Cover of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US …

"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition bureaucracy and win more of the shrinking number of contracts."

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries developed their own reconnaissance-strike complexes. And yet it was into these legacy systems that Washington poured billions of dollars, year after year. And because Washington focused on means more than ends, pieces more than networks, platforms more than kill chains, the US military has ended up with an array of sensors and weapons that often struggle to communicate with another and function together--like a box of mismatching puzzle pieces..."

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury

1. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

By: Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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2. Once an Eagle

By: Anton Myrer

4.39

Format: 1312 pages, Paperback

Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a … read more

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  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
"We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old,…"

-Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle

3. Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

By: Robin Olds , Ed Rasimus , Christina Olds

3.41

Format: 32 pages,

The widely anticipated memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot, Robin Olds Robin Olds was a… read more

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  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction

4. Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

By: P.W. Singer , August Cole

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. T… read more

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5. The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

By: Bob Drury , Tom Clavin

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his … read more

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6. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

By: Robert Coram

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember… read more

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7. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • china
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8. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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9. Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

By: Jim Mattis

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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10. War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination

By: Robert Spalding

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China exper… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate

11. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

By: Sean McFate

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap) by Rush Doshi

12. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)

By: Rush Doshi

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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13. The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

By: Elizabeth C. Economy

3.78

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

14. The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

By: Christian Brose

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US … read more

Similar categories in Christian Brose's The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare book and Christian Brose's The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • technology
"Defense companies spent less money on research and development and more on armies of lawyers, lobbyists, accountants, and consultants to help them comply with the Pentagon's growing acquisition burea…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

"These were the very same systems that Marshall wrote in 1992 would be "progressively less central to military operations" because they would become large, vulnerable targets as US adversaries develop…"

-Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Cover of Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre

15. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Cover of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan

16. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
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  • china
Cover of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands

17. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By: Hal Brands

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer

18. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

By: P.W. Singer

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart

19. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. Singer

20. Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

By: P.W. Singer

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping tech… read more

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  • technology
  • military fiction
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  • audiobook
"You must have never driven in Boston."

-P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

Cover of The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats by Richard A. Clarke

21. The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

By: Richard A. Clarke

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how gove… read more

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  • audiobook
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11 Best audiobook books like The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare by Christian Brose

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Michael Pillsbury

4.21

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination

Robert Spalding

4.13

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The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

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3.96

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4.21

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2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

3.80

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Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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