Books by Enoch Schmaltz
Explore The Libyan Question, Puppet Skies and The Controlled Release, alongside related long-form investigations.
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Puppet Skies
How sensing stacks quietly redraw what we see
A book about the invisible sensing infrastructure that filters our horizons—how data, displays, and defaults reshape public imagination and power.
The Libyan Question
NATO, Obama, and the destruction of a country
On October 20, 2011, a convoy of 75 vehicles left the besieged city of Sirte moving west. Inside one of them was Muammar Gaddafi. By mid-afternoon he was dead in a drainage pipe in his birthplace, pulled out by rebel fighters while American drones circled overhead from a trailer in the Nevada desert. The old Libya ended that morning. Nothing new began. The Libyan Question is the account of how it happened and what it produced: a humanitarian intervention that became a regime change operation, a mandate to protect civilians that produced a decade of civil war, a military campaign that succeeded completely and planned for almost nothing.
The Controlled Release
Dispatches on surveillance, speed, and disclosure
A rapid-release follow-up on how fast platforms, intelligence programs, and civic narratives fall out of sync — and what that lag does to public trust.
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