Combat Intelligence

In addition to strength, steel, and courage, a hero discovers he's in need of a friend, in the first installment of a daring and dangerous fantasy adventure. When it comes to action and adventure, every hero needs a good sidekick. Holmes has Watson, Batman has Robin, and Daniel has . . . Orrin...

In Follow My Tracks - Combat Tracking & Pseudo Ops: Recollections former Rhodesian game ranger, regular army Selous Scout, and professional hunter turned author, Kevin Thomas, looks at how combat tracking and pseudo-operations evolved as a counterinsurgency tactic during the Rhodesian Bush War. This civil conflict lasted from July 1964 until December 1979. Early on the importance of using skilled combat trackers during counterinsurgency operations was realised and by 1970 the Rhodesian Army had formerly established a tracking school at Kariba. During mid-1973 the concept of using pseudo-...

The fate of the Dragon Lands are at play. The knights of the Lightraider Order disappeared nearly two generations past. Now, the Keledan have withdrawn behind their barriers, and the Dragon Lands of bordering Tanelethar are overrun with dark oppression. The people are living in disobedience to...

…Ben Het has tanks in the wire! “Hawk Claw is engaging,” the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat. Fire Base Delta had already been over run and Fire Base Charlie was fighting for its life. How much would fall before the North Vietnamese army was knocking on the doors of the key city of Kontum? This was the third phase of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Campaign of 1972. Standing across the country between them and the fall of Saigon was a poorly led South Vietnamese Army, brave South Vietnamese soldiers, and US Advisors. How much ground ...

The rebellion needed a warship. It accidentally got a conqueror. A few months ago, I woke up buried inside a mountain with no memory, a terrifying reputation, and the inconvenient discovery that five hundred years earlier I’d murdered my own crew. Since then, things have escalated. I’ve destroyed Dominion warships, stolen others, helped ignite a rebellion, and somehow acquired a small fleet of my own. Naturally, I’ve decided the next sensible step is to attack Vespera—a sector capital of two billion people defended by eighteen warships, millions of soldiers, and a four-kilometer ...

What does a combat android, a space marine, a starfighter pilot, a paramedic trapped inside a combat mech, a rogue starship captain, and the galaxy's most dangerous femme fatale have in common? Absolutely nothing... except that every one of them is about to have the worst week of their life. They're also all creations of Sean Robins, blending razor-sharp sarcasm, unforgettable characters, explosive action, and impossible odds into six unforgettable military science fiction adventures. Inside you'll find six complete first novels, each opening the door to a bestselling series, with more than...

An inspiring tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Pacific. "A jaw-dropping tale of American sailors at war overcoming every challenge they faced with loyalty...

Listeners with an interest in crime scene investigation will be gripped as a crack team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents investigates crime scenes around the world. Will Coburn and his NCIS team of agents are hunting for a missing body stolen from a crime scene and suspect...

The galaxy is burning. And Jack is the one who struck the match. Jack wanted to destroy the Hegemony and free the countless worlds trapped beneath its rule. Instead, he shattered the empire into warring factions. Now admirals slaughter one another for power, entire planets are reduced to glass, and billions of innocent people are caught in the crossfire. The Hegemony may be dying, but it’s taking the galaxy with it—and Jack’s brilliant plan is responsible. For once, the sarcastic combat android has no joke, no clever explanation, and no one else to blame. But Jack isn’t ready to ...

An authoritative introduction to strategy—its enduring essentials, its inherent challenges, and the ways it will change in the twenty-first century We live in a world in which America's previous dominance has disappeared, violent states seek to remake the global order, and war itself has taken...

A former nobody is about to become a major somebody—and learn it's not all it's cracked up to be—in the fourth installment of this LitRPG fantasy adventure. Back when things were normal, Orrin the Timid tried saving his best friend, Daniel the Popular, from a runaway truck. But he failed...

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! August 2558. Rion Forge was once defined by her relentless quest for hope amidst the refuse and wreckage of a post-Covenant War galaxy—years spent searching for family as much...

A zero-turned-hero continues his action-packed journey to greatness through a world of magic and mayhem in this exciting LitRPG fantasy series. On Earth, the scrawny Orrin may have been a big nothing, but he had a bigger buddy in his athletic bestie, Daniel. They were inseparable, like two sides...

Chris Ecclestone has had a full on day. And it isn't over yet! He’s done the impossible, been promoted, called a legend, and now he’s alone with his girlfriend and about to get the reward he really wants. Tomorrow is another day, and a badly needed boring one at that. But there’s a war on, and romance has to wait when allies call for help, and boring is what happens between battles and exhaustion. Combat awaits, and this time, he’s a senior officer contemplating how fast he’s failing upwards. The Imperium is spread too thin, and the Trixone are attacking in too many places. When ...

Jack has spent his whole life fighting the Hegemony. Now he’s going after the heart of its empire. With a stolen dreadnought, a half-trained crew, a rebellion held together by spite, caffeine, and questionable decisions, and a godlike AI who cannot stop insulting everyone around him, Jack is about to launch the most insane mission in the history of insane missions. The target: Dravus Prime, the Hegemony’s home world, a planet protected by two colossal dreadnoughts, an orbital fortress capable of annihilating entire fleets, and four hundred years of military dominance. The odds of ...

Operation Condor: The History of the Notorious Intelligence Operations Supported by the United States to Combat Communists Across South America looks at the various intelligence operations and the winding chain of events that brought about conflicts in the region.

The Pamplona Sector was in trouble. Two hundred years of consolidation wars left a small cadre of corporate elites running the sector. The Drakes and the Cordobas were only interested in maintaining their power. And the great houses within both camps had their knives out. The Federation didn’t start with a shot. It was a man deciding to be decent when his training –even his genetics– insisted that he be a bastard. It was a friendship between people who should have found each other repulsive. It was a young girl asking impertinent questions and insisting that those around her do the ...

Nine ships destroyed in a shared transit lane. Two hundred and fourteen dead. Every weapon signature reads Federation. The convoy is still burning when a Combine patrol finds it. No distress calls, no escape pods, no survivors. The drive signatures are Federation Navy, the hull fragments are Federation composite, and the strike was fast enough and thorough enough that nobody aboard nine ships got a beacon away. That is not a skirmish on a contested border. That is intent. Ward’s team crosses a line they were never cleared to cross, into a theatre where Combine hardliners already want a ...

The 95th Rifles - Wellington's sharpshooters - first into battle and last out. Acclaimed military writer Mark Urban explores the extraordinary story of these military pioneers; the toughest and deadliest infantrymen in Wellington's Army. Immortalised in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, the 95th...

Christopher Ecclestone has lived in the dark for a long time. As a fighter pilot on the old Ark Royal, on the very day all his wishes came true, fate took them away again. Seven years later, all he can do is listen, as a galactic core wide war begins. Only the brand new Imperium had space fighters, and they were a liability, not an asset. Now the Trixone have them, they've swept their frontier clean, and invaded Ralnor and Keerah space. The Ralnor asked the fledgling Imperium for help. But the Imperium only has a small number of fighter pilots, with nearly half being rookies without a ...