Recently: - The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War - The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries Both excellent and pair really well. Add in "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible" and you've got some decent insight into modern Russia, I think. Just finished: - Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda Interesting to read. Author is rather sure of himself, but I guess that helped him be successful. Also interesting to see what the CIA redacted, since they left all the redactions in place in the book and used classical music in the audio book to represent them. Kind of sloppily redacted at times, with the redacted country or entity clearly referenced a sentence or two later. And then there's strange things redacted, like the language of bootleg DVDs that are purchased in SE Afghanistan. It's Farsi, for the record. - The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age…
Also recommended in this reply
- Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
- The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
- The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries