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- 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century by Andrew Krepinevich
- The Devil We Know: Dealing With The New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer
- The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power by David Sanger
- In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisors and the Presidents They Served - From JFK to George W. Bush by Ivo Daalder and I.M. Destler
- Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie Gelb
- The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo
- The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
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