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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Distilled from the Yale University seminar, "Studies in Grand Strategy," a master class in strategic thinking surveys statecraft from the ancient Greeks through FDR and beyond as vital historical lessons for future world leaders.
"John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in [this book], Gaddis reflects...
43) Ilium
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced and powerful, gripping and immersive, this subtly crafted and suspenseful novel, set in the present and the immediate past, in the dark world of international espionage in London, Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret is told through its young female protagonist who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a special op. The young English narrator briefly tells us of her unhappy family life in London, wanting...
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Old Man's War universe volume 2
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English
Description
The members of the Ghost Brigades, made up of perfect soldiers created from the DNA of the dead, band together to protect the future of humanity when three alien races vow to stop humans' expansion into space.
46) Halo legends
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Focuses on Master Chief's mysterious origins, the Spartans' advanced combat capabilities and the tense rivalry between the Spartans and the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. Dynamically depicted are humankind's ongoing battles with the Covenant.
47) Liars' legacy
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English
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They were born in the shadows. Schooled in espionage. Taught to kill and trained to disappear. In this captivating masterwork from bestselling author Taylor Stevens, elusive twins Jack and Jill take the global spy game to electric levels. The assassin broker is dead. The power void has left the network he controlled without restraints, and the world's deadliest killers free to pursue their own vendettas and political agendas. The United States government,...
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English
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When a senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Seal Team Six leader Thomas Crocker and his men are sent to Mexico's lawless countryside, where federal agents protect violent narcotics kingpins instead of hunting them down. The two women have been taken by the Jackal, a drug lord drunk on power and and influence. He also happens to be a self-styled modern Che Guevara, having undergone plastic surgey to disguise his looks and justifying...
49) Drone threat
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Troy Pearce and his team of drone experts are called to action when ISIS launches a series of attacks on U.S. soil. On the eve of President Lane's historic Asian Security Summit, a hobby-store quadcopter lands on the White House lawn carrying a package and an ominous threat: Fly the enclosed black flag of ISIS over the White House by noon today or suffer the consequences. The threat further promises that every day the flag isn't flown a new attack...
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Top shot volume season 2
Publisher
[A & E Television Networks]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen fearless marksmen take aim for the $100,000 prize and the title of 'Top Shot'. Featured will be the iconic 'Tommy Gun' and .44 Magnum, but not just firearms, the marksmen's skills will also be tested with tomahawks, compound bows and blow guns. In the end, only one can be the 'Top Shot'.
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Sigma Force novels volume 16
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English
Description
It begins in Africa ... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
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Publisher
Paladin Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army sniper and avid precision rifle and long-range rifle shooter, competitor, and enthusiast, Cirincione has 26 months' worth of combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has trained multiple groups of squad-designated marksmen for his battalion. In this book, he lays out an easily understood method for getting the most out of whatever rifle you are using. After discussing rifle, ammunition, and optic selection, he reveals his tried-and-true...
54) Running the risk
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Endgame Ops novels volume 2
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English
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Jude Dagan's life as he knew it ended a year ago. On a mission gone wrong, he was forced to watch as Ella Banning, the only woman he ever loved, was killed. Or so he thought. Jude wasn't the only one who lost something on the day Ella was presumed dead. She sacrificed Endgame Ops, the love of her life, and parts of herself she can never get back. Now she is determined to take down the world's most dangerous terrorist. When Jude and Ella are reunited...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where and How of President Vladimir Pushkin's next grab for lost Soviet territory. But Swanson, now a special contractor with the CIA, soon begins to believe that it...
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English
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A dramatic account of the hunt for and defeat of Osama bin Laden draws on unprecedented access to primary sources to trace how key decisions were made, revealing events from the perspectives of an adept President Obama and an increasingly despondent bin Laden.
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 9
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English
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"In New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor's latest heart-stopping thriller, Pike Logan returns with his most dangerous and personal threat yet: a Taskforce Operator gone rogue. For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside...
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