Good Reads

 The two document I find myself recommending most often to folks I talk to are: 

1. "Unrestricted Warfare" - which is a series of lectures given by PLA (Peoples Liberation Army - the Chinese) instructors to senior PLA officers.  The US obtained them and in 1997 released them in english.  The document was considered of such significance that Johns Hopkins commenced a seminar specifically to explain its contents to US military and government leaders.  Communist China subsequently twisted some arms and spread some cash around so that the once respected institute of higher learning morphed the seminar far, far away from revealing China's honest intentions - and their current execution - of a vast war plan against the US.

https://archive.org/details/unrestricted-warfare-by-qiao-liang-and-wang-xiangsui/page/226/mode/2up

2. C S Lewis "That Hideous Strength"  - Of all the SciFi I've read this one comes closest to describing the current hellscape of  'think tanks' and academia today.   Here's an article explaining it's merits - https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cslewis-hideous-strength-matches-orwells-1984-prognosticator-perils-progressivism 

Those two, plus the Bible, seem to be useful for understanding things happening today.