11 Best war books like Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Krieg

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Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century

By: Andreas Krieg

4.09

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of "surrogate warfare" in twenty-first century c…

If you liked the war plot in Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Krieg , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a K… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

By: John Le Carré

4.06

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more

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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."

-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)

4. Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

By: Robert Jervis

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligen… read more

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5. The Future of War: A History

By: Lawrence Freedman

4.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought… read more

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6. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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7. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The “persecution"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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8. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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10. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton

4.18

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas

12. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

By: Kim Ghattas

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"

-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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13. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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14. The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By: Elliot Ackerman

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
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15. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

By: Andy Greenberg

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
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17. Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

By: Angela Stent

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making, and the Russian leader, throug… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte

18. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.25

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti

20. The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War

By: Mark Galeotti

3.85

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new realit… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

21. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By: Thomas Rid

4.15

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

22. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

By: Adam Rutherford

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more

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  • nonfiction
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."

-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"

-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

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23. Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

By: Lawrence Freedman

4.16

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an asserti… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

24. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein

25. Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

By: Alex Wellerstein

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold W… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
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26. Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity

By: Robert Hannigan

3.83

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solve… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century

By: Andreas Krieg

4.09

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of "surrogate warfare" in twenty-first century c… read more

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  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • war
Cover of How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand

28. How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster

By: David Omand

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' Rory Stewart'An extraordinary achievement. Pr… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Serhii Plokhy

4.27

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Barbara F. Walter

4.25

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Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.90

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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

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Siddharth Kara

4.37

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4.44

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Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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