24 Best nonfiction books like The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg

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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

By: Jacob Helberg

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” ( Pub…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg , here is a list of 24 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

Similar categories in Michael Pillsbury's The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
Cover of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

2. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more

Similar categories in Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology

3. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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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. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

By: James P. Carse

3.51

Format: None pages,

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6. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

By: None , Ben R. Rich

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more

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7. The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might

By: Daniel L. Byman , Charles Wolf Jr. , None

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

This book examines how the United States uses limited military force and other means to influence a… read more

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Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

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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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • 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. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
Cover of The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim  Marshall

10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • history
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

11. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

12. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

Similar categories in Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman

13. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By: Frank Slootman

4.07

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is you… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger

14. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

Similar categories in Henry Kissinger's The Age of AI and Our Human Future book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

15. On Grand Strategy

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • business
Cover of A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier

16. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

By: Bruce Schneier

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Schneier's A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

17. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

By: Kai-Fu Lee

4.10

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more

Similar categories in Kai-Fu Lee's AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • technology
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"

-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

18. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

Similar categories in David E. Sanger's New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

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

19. 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 Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • 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

20. 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

Similar categories in Paul Scharre's Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • 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 The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben  Buchanan

21. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

By: Ben Buchanan

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read...It reveals important truths."--Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer "One of the finest boo… read more

Similar categories in Ben Buchanan's The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan

22. 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

Similar categories in Mick Ryan's White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

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

23. 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

Similar categories in Hal Brands's Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

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

24. 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

Similar categories in Amy B. Zegart's Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World by H.R. McMaster

25. Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

By: H.R. McMaster

4.12

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times  Bestseller Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on t… read more

Similar categories in H.R. McMaster's Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
"Поки вони підривають школи для дівчаток в Афганістані, їхні діти ходять до приватних шкіл."

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"Освіта життєво важлива не лише для того, щоб громадяни розпізнавали небезпеки російських дезінформаційних кампаній, а й щоб відновилася довіра до демократичних принципів, інституцій і процесів."

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"The president and many of those who served him were sympathetic to the New Left interpretation of foreign affairs, one that considers so-called Western capitalist imperialism as the primary cause of …"

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

"Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics inter…"

-H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

Cover of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry  Farrell

26. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg

27. The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

By: Jacob Helberg

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” ( Pub… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • war
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • technology
Cover of T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power by Michael Kanaan

28. T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

By: Michael Kanaan

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Late in 2017, the conversation about the global impact of artificial intelligence (AI) changed fore… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

29. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more

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  • politics
  • china
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman

30. The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future

By: Jonathan E. Hillman

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to conne… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI by Ben Buchanan

31. The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI

By: Ben Buchanan

4.16

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

AI is revolutionizing the world. Here’s how democracies can come out on top. Artificial intelligen… read more

Similar categories in Ben Buchanan's The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI book and Jacob Helberg's The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science

19 Top history books like The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg

Transform Your Habits

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

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

Tim Marshall

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

Peter Zeihan

4.18

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Transform Your Habits

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

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

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2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

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