World War IV by Norman Podhoretz
The broad landscape of the ideological war.

Faith, Reason and the War Against Jihadism by George Weigel
The religious fanaticism of the jihadists, and how MSM must come to grips with it.

America Alone by Mark Steyn
The demographics and their impact on the long war.

Imperial Grunts and Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts by Robert Kaplan
The good guys

The Pentagon's New Map, by Thomas P.M. Barnett
Where the disconnected must be connected

The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson
How the West wins the wars it must win.

Many of these books are from MSM reporters, and some from writers identified as from the left, some from the right. What unites them is seriousness of purpose, very fine and often funny writing, and hard cold facts about the war and the Islamist movement.

It isn't too much to ask our elected leaders and talking heads to at least try to be informed of that on which they legislate and opine.