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Shadow Wars: The Forging of American Intelligence traces the hidden evolution of espionage in the United States from the Revolutionary era to the modern national security state. Drawing on military archives, declassified documents, and original analysis, it examines how intelligence gathering, covert action, and institutional secrecy shaped American power long before the CIA was created.
From Washington’s spies in the War for Independence, through the codebreakers of the Civil War, to the global clandestine networks of World War II — each generation reinvented American intelligence, often repeating the same mistakes. At its center is the question of how a democracy learns to live with secrecy.
Nonfiction. Available in paperback and Kindle editions.
Shadow Wars: The Forging of American Intelligence traces the hidden evolution of espionage in the United States from the Revolutionary era to the modern national security state. Drawing on military archives, declassified documents, and original analysis, it examines how intelligence gathering, covert action, and institutional secrecy shaped American power long before the CIA was created.
From Washington’s spies in the War for Independence, through the codebreakers of the Civil War, to the global clandestine networks of World War II — each generation reinvented American intelligence, often repeating the same mistakes. At its center is the question of how a democracy learns to live with secrecy.
Nonfiction. Available in paperback and Kindle editions.