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Malcolm Nance is a former naval intelligence counter-terrorism and intelligence officer. He specializes in the Middle East and speaks fluent Arabic. He is a combat veteran with several areas of expertise. He spent 35 years working in field and combat intelligence activity. He is a writer whose mostra'n més books include, An End to al-Qaeda: An End to al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor (2010), The Plot to hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election (2016), and The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West (2018). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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OMG, fantastic the way Malcolm Nance explains in detail how all democracies are being attacked and destroyed world wide. A terrifying must read for everyone and everyone MUST vote in our upcoming midterms!
 
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empress49 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Dec 29, 2023 |
While the early part of the book contains valuable information, I only wish the first 225 pages were as readable and exciting as the last 70.
 
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FranklynCee | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Aug 27, 2023 |
Intelligence and counterterrorism specialist Malcolm Nance investigates what he calls the Trump Insurgency in the United States (TITUS). Arising from rightwing militia groups, conspiracy theorists, and the bizarre following of QAnon, supporters of Donald Trump organized to attack the United States Capitol. Nance describes January 6 in detail and the planning that lead to that date.

I would've liked to have seen more of the history of rightwing terrorism in the United States, because this didn't arise out of nowhere, but as a focused work on the years of the Trump administration today, it does a good job summing up the current threat. Typically, I'd say that Nance's writing style is alarmist, but with the Biden Administration focusing on normalcy despite the growing insurrectionist threat, perhaps alarmism is warranted. Hopefully the right people hear the alarm… (més)
 
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Othemts | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jun 20, 2023 |
They Want to Kill Americans is a wide-ranging investigation into the movements that coalesced into the January 6th insurrection and their continuing efforts to take over the government, preferably, it seems, by force. They are unified in their white nationalist disdain for nonwhite Americans and their demand for unlimited personal freedom through an authoritarian government that oppresses, perhaps genocides, everyone else.

It’s an ugly story, but all too true. This is a book that will scare you. It scared me and I am someone who is not prone to conspiracies, thinking, like Hanlon, that incompetence and ignorance are more likely than malice when things go awry. But not this time. There really was a conspiracy that resulted in January 6th and that conspiracy continues.

Nance is a former intelligence analyst which means he is trained to write clearly with well-organized material leading to a shared understanding. He does it well. The book is as coherant an explanation of the Trump insurgency then and now as you will find. Of course, coming from that background makes him a clear communicator in many ways, but also makes him reliant on acronyms, addicted might be a better word. He created an acronym for the Trump Insurance in the United States (TITUS) but really, why couldn’t he just write Trump Insurgency? How many times did I have to go back to the introduction to remind myself what TITUS meant? I don’t know. But it was a lot. I began to feel a twitch of irritation every time I saw that acronym.

I valued the information I gleaned from They Want to Kill Americans. Yes, it scared me. We need to be scared because we need to act to preserve our democracy. And that leads to my biggest criticism of the book. There are 320 pages in this book and about 10 deal with what we can do to stop it. And even then, most of them are deemed likely to fail and inadequate. I mean, we are straying into learned helplessness now. You can’t scare people like this without offering more hope or they will just shut down, stop watching the news, and wait for democracy to die.

There are things we can do. We can vote in every election. We can care about who is on the school board, town council, and in the statehouse. We can run for office. We can take back our democracy. We can purge the armed forces and law enforcement of anyone belonging to groups advocating force or violence. So, if there is a second edition, I want Mr. Nance to spend a tenth of the book on solutions. Otherwise, readers will despair and despair will end democracy just as quickly as armed insurgency.

I received an ARC of They Want to Kill Americans from the publisher through Shelf Awareness.

They Want to Kill Americans at St. Martin’s Press | Macmillan
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Tonstant.Weader | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Sep 7, 2022 |

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