Jack Detsch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jack Detsch

Most Americans likely missed the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State, save for a few key moments ... in his latest book ... [the author takes] the war from a napkin sketch in the minds of Pentagon planners all the way to the end of Trump’s presidency.

Jack Detsch

At 880 pages, this is a veritable tome... Menand provides a Marauder’s Map for the intellectual movements of the 20th century... For anyone looking for the intersection of where American culture meets U.S. politics, this is not one to be missed.

Jack Detsch

Plokhy takes readers on a swashbuckling survey through Ukraine’s history, from the ninth-century vikings of Kyivan Rus, whose statues dot the modern hills of Kyiv, to the Nazi occupation and the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Jack Detsch

...Our Enemies Will Vanish, is part travelogue through the front lines in Ukraine, part fly on the wall in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner sanctum. Whatever you want to call it, it is absolutely the best in class of the recent crop of reported books chronicling the first two years of Russia’s war.

Jack Detsch

To the writers of the National Security Strategy: Here’s your handbook. Brands provides the academic architecture for how the last great-power competition—between the United States and the Soviet Union—was won.