/lit/ - Literature

Thread to recommend (nonfiction) books on geopolitics, diplomacy, war, etc. A recommendation to start if off:

The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock. Built from the foundation of a number of oral history interviews with high-ranking military officials. Whitlock went to court to get the documents, and it's easy to see why they were so guarded. The chapters on the poppy trade in Afghanistan were particularly interesting to me, and the book does a good job detailing just how out of touch the UN was in dealing with the trade. The book starts with Bush 43 and ends with the Biden administration starting to pull out.