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Sextus: You can break a man's skull. You can arrest him. You can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? [taps his head] How do you fight an idea?

Messala: Sextus, you ask how to fight an idea. Well, I'll tell you how... with another idea!

​Ben Hur (1959)
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Released 22 May 2025
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Narrative War was born out of the author’s experiences dealing with 9/11, serving within and
with Arab armies, and planning for the Battle of Mosul to defeat ISIS.

This book is almost twenty-five years in the making, with ten years dedicated to thinking, planning, teaching, speaking, and advocating for a new approach to war—narrative war—against groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban.

The events of 2020 and 2024 in the form of elections, COVID-19, protests and marches, and violent actions against government events and buildings, led the author to understand that narrative war is more than military war; it is a philosophy that explains all forms of social conflict.

The big ideas, basic strategy, and critical questions necessary for understanding, conducting, and ideally winning narrative war are part of what is inside. The book also provides a philosophical understanding of narrative war ideas and concepts using multiple examples of its conduct in the real world.
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Released 15 June 2023
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The War in Afghanistan was the longest military conflict in American history. In a diverse collection of primary documents, this book explores the evolving legacy of the war and its impact on the countless lives it changed forever. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States spent almost 20 years at war in Afghanistan until it officially withdrew its military forces in August 2021. As the longest war in American history, the War in Afghanistan cost trillions of dollars to sustain and claimed the lives of thousands of American soldiers and many more Afghan civilians. This book tells the story of the war from its varied perspectives, including documents from American and Afghan politicians, high-ranking military officers, and diplomats. The topics covered are even more diverse, ranging from the building and training of security forces and the use drones in modern warfare to the importance of education and the role of women in combat. What the editors lead readers to understand is that the peoples referred to as Afghans have little in common beyond the land itself-a simple, basic, and ultimately ignored reality at the heart of the U.S. invasion, occupation, and frustration in Afghanistan.
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