Gregg Roman
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One argument, five books.

Free people fight. The fight has a price. The volunteer who goes when the state will not is the figure history keeps forgetting.

Out now The Closing Window — the novel · read the opening

The Doctrine

The keystone. The book that tells a reader what I think.

The Carthage Doctrine cover: carved inscription lettering on marble ivory with an imperial crimson band reading Delenda est Carthago.
October 2026

The Carthage Doctrine

How the West Can Defeat the Enemies It Failed to Understand

The keystone. The book that tells a reader what I think.

The West doesn’t lose its wars. It declines to win them.

The West keeps mistaking management for strategy — deterring, containing, negotiating, while its enemies plan for victory. Gregg Roman fought that failure from the inside: the IDF, Israel’s Ministry of Defense, the West Point classroom, the front lines of the information war. Part memoir, part doctrine, The Carthage Doctrine argues that decisive victory is a choice — and lays out exactly what choosing it demands.

The History

The citizen-volunteer trilogy, 1775–2026. The evidence that the doctrine is not theory.

The Fiction

The widest door in the house. A thriller written from the inside.

The Closing Window cover: a single amber-lit window in a midnight-blue city.
Out now

The Closing Window

Propulsive spy fiction written from the inside.

The people who were supposed to act wouldn’t. The people who could — did.

As protest sweeps Iran, a Washington think tank does what its government will not: the Meridian Institute is running live networks inside the country. Then the thirty-nine-day war ignites, and everyone at Meridian must weigh the cost of action against the price of standing by — knowing every name on the ledger is real. A thriller about the people who move when the state hesitates, and the count that never stops.

Where should I start?