Books like Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen

A revealing account of the secret U.S. military facility near Las Vegas, based on interviews with former personnel, uncovering secret weapon tests, aircraft projects, and defense programs.

In the aftermath of 9/11, a covert U.S. bargain with Saudi Arabia turns perilous when the king’s nephew funds ISIS. President Obama turns to intelligence operative Mitch Rapp to send a warning—solo—before the deal unravel.

After World War II, the U.S. secretly recruited former Nazi scientists for Cold War research in a program called Operation Paperclip.

A collection of biographical sketches of general-grade officers from World War II to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, exploring the evolution of the Army's approach to generalship and the negative impact on leadership and battle performance.

Michael R. Beschloss chronicles how U.S. presidents—from James Madison to Lyndon B. Johnson—navigated war, mobilized the nation, and balanced power with Congress, the courts, and public protest, revealing the physical and emotional toll of conflict on the executive.

An overview of contemporary parapsychological research, detailing the methods employed to assess psi phenomena—from classic ESP card experiments to field investigations of poltergeist activity.

Examines how the founding of the CIA was shaped by William J. Donovan’s pioneering public‑relations work with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, *Fields of Battle* spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil.

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism in America, blending historical narrative with supernatural elements.

Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang explore how astrophysics tools—from celestial navigation to satellite warfare—have shaped and been shaped by military power, revealing a long‑standing, mutually influential relationship between science and defense.

"The Los Angeles Air Raid on February 24/25, 1942 opened an unprecedented chapter in the evolution of the U.S. Navy. In response to this incident, a covert research program to investigate the feasibility of exotic antigravity propulsion technologies was developed. In addition, Navy operatives were embedded in Nazi occupied Europe to learn about the Germans' advanced flying saucer programs, and they discovered the Nazis were receiving assistance from two extraterrestrial groups with very different agendas. The debriefing of the operatives took place at Naval Air Station, San Diego, led by Rear Admiral Rico Botta. He instructed a "Disseminator of Naval Research and Information", William Tompkins, to take confidential briefing packets to select think tanks, corporations and university departments around the country. Later, Tompkins worked with a number of leading aerospace companies to design massive spacecraft for a secret U.S. Navy space program, and was fatefully assisted by extraterrestrial visitors described as "Nordics". An extensive number of documents substantiate Tompkins' claims of the existence of a covert Navy program created to study, design and build deep space battle groups. They became operational in the 1980's. Now the Navy has a new goal to enact a plan to level the universal playing field, and the election of President Donald Trump may just be the wild card they needed to reveal & everything!"--Back cover.