Provides a picture of how politically important space has become, and what its exploitation might mean for our futures. This book analyses the space programmes of the United States, Russia, China, India and the European Space Agency, and explains how central space has become to issues of war and pea[...]

Written by a man who is arguably the country's most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, "Crush the Cell" demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false "terror punditry" that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy, and bruising clashes [...]