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The Twilight WarBook

by David Crist

Who uses, recommends or left The Twilight War, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Suzanne Maloney
Suzanne Maloney is one of Washington’s leading Iran experts.
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I wanted to recommend one um, The Twilight War by David Christ. Um, the subtitle is The Secret History of America's 30-year conflict with Iran. So it's obviously a little bit outdated, but David Christ is a Pentagon historian and he writes about the tanker war period as well as you know other other skirmishes between the United States and Iran.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Why Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-suzanne-maloney.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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