War Weapons

In the year 2280, an alien fleet stole our Earth. For 50 years they hunted us. For 50 years they enslaved us. For 50 years we lived in fear. Nothing lasts forever. They can try to quell us. They can try to break us. They can chase us to the ends of the Earth. They can chase us to the ends of the universe. We've won our first battle. We've earned our first taste of hope. What was theirs will soon be ours. We are the rebellion. Our story continues.

Trace the tense military history of global conflict, where technological evolution constantly rewrites the rules of war. From the first crude stone clubs to silent lines of code crashing enemy networks, experience how human ingenuity remains inextricably bound to organized violence. Ideal for an...

A dormant Soviet bio-weapon. A weaponized rage virus. And a nation entirely unprepared. Monday morning begins like any other in Tennessee. A commuter bus. A crowded emergency room. A routine traffic stop. Children heading to school. Then someone collapses. Minutes later, they rise again. It starts with a tingling sensation, followed by nausea and confusion... then an overwhelming euphoria that ends in a sudden collapse. Moments later, the infected awaken with one irresistible, biochemically engineered instinct: Bite. Infect. Repeat. As isolated acts of unexplained violence erupt, hospitals ...

Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. Scharre's far-ranging investigation examines the emergence of autonomous weapons, the movement to ban them, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. Through interviews with defense experts, ethicists, psychologists, and activists, Scharre surveys what challenges might face "centaur warfighters" on future battlefields. 

Featured in THE REST IS POLITICS newsletter – Rory Stewart’s Book Recommendations SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES ‘BEST BOOK OF 2025’ ‘Chokepoints is a masterful narrative of US...

A harrowing exploration of the uniquely dangerous experience of men whose survival depends on their absolute commitment to one another—from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm. "Incisive ... absorbing ... original." —New York Times Book Review Sebastian Junger turns his brilliant and...

 April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential target slips away. Dr. Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun in the early days of rocket science, but as a man with a conscience he refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. That makes him the most knowledgeable person about German superweapons outside of Germany. 

Two hours and twenty-six minutes. That is the number Air Force pararescueman Wade Keller cannot stop running through his head, the gap between the order to abort a rescue and the moment intelligence confirmed the downed pilot had still been alive to hear it. He built a rule out of that number. He has never broken it. When reconnaissance pilot Luke Tanner is shot down deep over the karst mountains of Laos with a film canister zipped into his flight suit, the machine built to bring him home begins to move: Skyraider pilots, helicopter crews, a colonel counting the cost in fuel and aircraft, ...

The factual stories in 125 Civil War Stories and Facts will help you learn Civil War history. The stories are informative and entertaining. It’s a fun way to learn about the Civil War. * Does reading about Civil War history from long and dry academic-like books bog you down and cause you to lose interest? * Would you like to read interesting stories based on facts of the Civil War, stories that inform you and move along with the war’s history? Does having to read from cover to cover tire you and cause you to drag through a history book? * Would you prefer the freedom to skip around in a...

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

Read by the authors and Fred Sanders. The untold story of the Allies’ secret weapon in occupied France. Peter J. Ortiz’s path to becoming the most battle-decorated member of America’s first spy agency—and one of the most decorated Marines of World War II—was unlike any other. Born in...

Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.

SOON TO BE AN HBO DOCUMENTARY FROM AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR JOHN MAGGIO “An important—and deeply sobering—new book about cyberwarfare” (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times) The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like...

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.

The true story of how Ukraine built a drone air force out of electronics-store parts and stopped the second-largest military on Earth. February 24, 2022. Russian forces are invading Ukraine from three directions. The operation is expected to last for days. What happened next surprised everyone, including Russia. Dmytro Kozlov stood at his apartment window in Kyiv at 4:17 in the morning, watching the sky light up. He was twenty-nine years old, a software developer, a drone racer. He had a thought that would have sounded insane to any conventional military officer: *we can use racing drones ...

For years, we have learned principles of individual spiritual warfare. Yet, as the end times are upon us, the forces of darkness are intensifying their attacks around the world. For this next season, says renowned prophetic leader Dr. Bill Hamon, we as the church must up the ante and learn to fight on a higher level than we ever have, in corporate spiritual warfare. With wisdom, urgency, and keen prophetic insight, Hamon lays the biblical foundation for this final level of warfare and tells how we, as the church, can prepare to work in unity to become the army of the Lord.  

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp...

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a...

In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, a defecting Iraqi scientist has revealed Saddam Hussein's horrifying plans for a devastating counter strike against his enemies...and the world.

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the...