Military Power

A prequel to the Kelly Blake series Consider mankind’s extinction as a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth. Humanity finally realizes that all our eggs are in one very precarious and fragile basket—Planet Earth. The petty disputes are set aside and Earth’s people unite, sending one million humans to settle ten nearby habitable planets. Extensive planning and often revolutionary technological advances push men, women, and children into the stars—but even the best plans can go astray.

War and power are some of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood— often disastrously so. Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by so-called ‘Great Powers’ who dominate their opponents with their impressive size and military prowess, the reality of modern conflict, as Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien demonstrates, is very different.

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. This extraordinary biography by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president.

In this honest, hard-hitting look at war and peace, a Navy SEAL and experienced security consultant explains that force is sometimes necessary, that persuasion is more powerful, and that some conflict is unnecessary and preventable. The goal of Powerful Peace is to open the listener’s mind about other cultures to comprehend that different does not have to mean wrong - and that an individual’s life can be richer and more enjoyable when conflicts are handled wisely.

During World War II, nurses from across the USA graduated from the Army Air Corps as second lieutenants. These pioneering women flew on C-47s to battlefields around the globe, triaging and treating gravely wounded men being transported to the hospital. Many died when their planes crashed or enemy bullets ripped their bodies. Ascension tells the story of two flight nurses, Colleen O'Brien, who escapes an abusive marriage, and Elizabeth Kizer, who seeks her missing-in-action husband, Captain Van Kizer. These courageous "Nightingales of the Sky" work in grueling conditions and encounter ...

Once a year, the Blue Angels perform for Fleet Week in my hometown of San Francisco. As a key influencer, I’ve been chosen to fly with a Blue Angel. My heart leaps out of my chest when I meet Sawyer “Huck” Roberts, and it isn’t from the G-Force. This Blue Devil has a girl in every city. Once he finds out I’m a virgin, he refuses to be my one-flight stand. Even so, I’m determined to change his mind.

In book two of the Wyld Wynd trilogy, Nolan Harrison, previously an unremarkable man of Earth, is on the run. Having narrowly escaped his pursuers, he travels to a new plane of reality with newfound friends who are part of a mysterious peace movement. In the now revealed universe where higher level pureblood clans roam an infinite number of planes of reality and have unique psychic powers, war is an ongoing way of life. The smaller group of peace activists look to Nolan, with his evolving, powerful psychic abilities, to be a leader amongst them. However, as his powers grow, many purebloods ...

Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate?

In book three of the Wyld Wynd trilogy, Nolan Harrison escapes to an obscure planet where the inhabitants live a simple, antiquated lifestyle. Unfortunately, as the different clans of purebloods chase Nolan, the peaceful environment is shattered. Assault squads chase Nolan and his friends across the planet as armies of purebloods rush there to engage in an epic battle of battles. As the opposing pureblood armies grow, Nolan rushes to find the mysterious Keys that folklore predicts will avert such a war. The battle within Nolan’s mind is also growing as the pressure to find the keys and ...

Timothy W. Crawford's The Power to Divide examines the use of wedge strategies, a form of divisive statecraft designed to isolate adversaries from allies and potential supporters to gain key advantages. With a multidimensional argument about the power of accommodation in competition, and a survey of alliance diplomacy around both World Wars, The Power to Divide artfully analyzes the past and future performance of wedge strategy in great power politics.

For three years Andrew Carroll traveled throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during US wars.

Biographer and acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons offers a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made.

No dia 31 de dezembro de 1999, um jovem Vladimir Putin apareceu desajeitado e constrangido nas telas da TV russa... como novo presidente. Duas décadas depois, Putin continua no poder, exalando confiança e muito à vontade no cenário mundial. Como um burocrata desconhecido da KGB conseguiu se tornar uma das figuras mais dominantes da política do século 21?

Before George Lucas's Death Star, before Star Trek's Doomsday Machine, came the Berserkers, intelligent, space-faring killing machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all life. The Berserkers have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. They're gambling on the advantage this gives them and massing for an all-out attack on human-held space.

Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline.

Matt was Ariel's second son. He was the responsible one that was always ready to help. Now he had choices to make about his future. Would he pursue the she-wolf he was drawn to or would he let her go? If he didn;t decide soon, the choice would be out of his hands.

On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, “Throw up your hands!” Shots rang out from inside and outside the cabin, and when it was all over, Jeff’s sons, Tom and John, emerged to find the sheriff and his two deputies dead and their father mortally wounded. Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight describes an impoverished family that wanted nothing to do with modern civilization.

The Dark Feminine is the part of the universal Divine Feminine that has been ignored, suppressed, demonized, and outcast by a society that prefers women to be sweet, silent, and of service. She is the energy of mystery, creativity, healing, growth, and change, and she exists within all people of all genders.

From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Francisco Franco was known for his ambition, talent and calculated risk-taking. Yet his reputation remains a topic of fierce debate. Did he destroy Spain and stifle its democracy or rescue the nation from left-wing tumult? This book will delve into the complexities of Franco's character, exploring his volatile relationship with a domineering father, his traumatic experiences fighting in Morocco and the formation of his authoritarian ideology.

Horace 'Jim' Greasley was 20 years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters, and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just 30 rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940.