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Victory, Not Management

Why the West’s conflicts don’t end — and what deciding to win actually requires. The argument of The Carthage Doctrine, delivered by someone who has operated.

For: Policy audiences, think tanks, war colleges The book →

Repaying Lafayette: 250 Years of Americans Fighting for Other People’s Freedom

Booking now for 250th-anniversary programming.

From the marquis who bought his own ship to the Americans in the Donbas — the parallel foreign policy of conscience, told for the nation’s 250th birthday.

For: History organizations, veterans groups, semiquincentennial programming The book →

The Underground That Armed Israel

The Sonneborn Institute, Service Airways, and the ordinary Americans who smuggled a state into existence in 1948 — and stood trial for it.

For: Synagogues, JCCs, Jewish community organizations The book →

Alone in the Ranks: The Lone Soldier’s Honest Ledger

Two funerals — one empty, one thirty thousand strong — and the history of the volunteers Israel calls lone soldiers, honored honestly, both columns visible.

For: Jewish community, campus audiences, lone-soldier organizations The book →

Writing the Thirty-Nine-Day War

How a practitioner turns the world he knows into fiction — the craft, the composites, and the question at the heart of The Closing Window. Story first.

For: Book festivals, book clubs, general audiences The book →