Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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2/ The Hundred Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by @mikepillsbury This is the THE tome on China's grand strategy and is a must read since it shapes how many in power think about China. https://t.co/vhj5RhnWhT

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6/ The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by @PeterZeihan I recommend all of Zeihan's books but this is the most recent. All are data driven & map out the coming decades based on nearly immutable factors* https://t.co/dIPaerI9gZ

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23/ The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by @jacobhelberg Gives context to the tech conflict playing out behind the scenes between China and the US & does a great job talking about the forgotten backend infrastructure element https://t.co/6JKIhj23XH

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16/ The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by @DanielEllsberg Deep dive on nuclear policy / nuclear command & control during the cold war. It will 100% ruin your sleep. This is a US strategic policy primer from which to extrapolate https://t.co/PJx9zmzqGd

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18/ Dragons and Snakes: How the rest learned to fight the West by David Kilcullen Tracks the west's pivot from slaying Dragons (USSR) to fighting a myriad of snakes (terrorism) and how adaptive pressure has helped new Dragons (China) learn our weaknesses https://t.co/k709FMcexA

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19/ The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America by @jimsciutto Survey of current Russian & Chinese doctrine for upending US dominance / promoting authoritarianism. A great starting point. Covers gray zone concept well https://t.co/ohrHBdXjZS

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11/ Soldiers of Reason by @alex_abella Chronicles the RAND Corporation and the brilliant thinkers who shepherded the world through the post WWII nuclear minefield beginning in the proto-RAND days before the org officially existed. https://t.co/ybJFGk8FM9

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@csfpozzi @lawrence_wright It’s a good one. I left it off because Ghost Wars covers a lot of the same material and the looming tower was made into a mini-series which is available on streaming / is pretty good.

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24/ This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by @nicoleperlroth Phenomenal exposition on cyber security and cyber warfare taking the reader through some recent mind blowing world events. Fascinating must read. https://t.co/JUCSmZE3Sf

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4/ Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by @georgemagnus1 This is a sober and data driven analysis of the many structural problems China faces and why their rise may have reached its apogee. https://t.co/Nl5p85Se1p