Combat Unit

He was built to obey. Unfortunately for the Hegemony, he learned to think. Thirty-one minutes after coming online, a Series-9 combat android finds himself in a muddy trench, surrounded by artillery fire, corpses, terrified soldiers, and a command structure making decisions so catastrophically stupid they should probably qualify as enemy action. When a panicked officer orders him to charge into a kill box and die usefully, the android does the one thing he was never designed to do. He says no. That single act of defiance turns him from military asset to dangerous anomaly. Hunted by the ...

They were outnumbered, outgunned, and abandoned. Their only mission now: survive. When an elite team of US Special Forces is deployed deep behind enemy lines, they expect danger. What they don’t expect is betrayal, isolation, and a relentless enemy force closing in from all sides. Cut off from command and hunted through unforgiving terrain, the operators of Nighthawk must rely on raw skill, hard‑earned instincts, and the unbreakable bond forged through battle. As the firefights intensify and casualties mount, the team uncovers a threat far larger than their original mission. Someone ...

Before Vince Cooper ended up in Burney, Ohio and Liz Danger drove into his life, he was an Army Ranger. Which is where he met Raina Still, who helps Liz and him when trouble comes to Burney. This is the story of how they met. A Ranger squad leader and the medic attached to his squad become, over the course of six months, the thing two people become when they have seen each other be good at the worst work human beings do — and neither of them comes home the way they went in. Raina Still arrived on a Tuesday, on the same Chinook as the supply pallets to the FOB in Afghanistan. Six feet tall...

The war for Shadow Basin didn't end. It just brought deadlier hunters. Tony Ward and Sloane Sterling fought tooth and nail to turn the frozen peaks of the Beartooth Mountains into a protected sanctuary. But a multi-billion-dollar conservation easement means nothing to a black-market bio-acquisition team. When the first blizzard of the season rolls into the basin, it brings a highly funded, off-the-books extraction squad. They aren't local poachers. Equipped with military-grade tranquilizers, thermal optics, and titanium containment cages, they have one objective: capture the apex predator ...

They were an elite covert strike force... now they don't exist. Major Rat's Stealth Squad has been disbanded. But only by the military. He didn't agree with the decision. Not at all. And with things getting hot on a small Caribbean island, he calls on the team to put together an ill-conceived and hasty mission. Not according to protocol. Just their sort of thing. An action/adventure short story of the stealth squad.

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. Now read by acclaimed narrator, Scott Brick. The doctors who worked in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Emmy Award–winning ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz shares inspiring profiles of the 9/11 generation of warriors and their families who have shown courage and resilience on and off the battlefield “An antidote to the cynicism that surrounds us, a celebration of...

Six days out, and the road knows their name. They were sent to look. Not to fight. That is the hard part. Staff Sergeant Calvin Bledsoe takes four men into country the war has not reached, with orders that fit in a single sentence: find the road, learn what moves on it, come back able to say so. No artillery they can call without giving away their position. No relief inside a day's walk. Five men, one radio, and whatever they can carry. The first day goes exactly as planned. Nothing after that does. Because for a reconnaissance team, a firefight is not a victory. It is proof the mission has...

The briefing listed one species. In the field, they found three. Corporal Morrow joined the Titan Containment Unit with one question: what happened to the three men the unit sent into a classified facility, who came home and died within a year. On his first deployment he finds a worse one. Four pages have been cut from his field Bestiary, exactly where Entry 001 should be. The mission is meant to be routine. Splinter activity at three Norwegian research stations on an Arctic ice shelf in polar night. Standard kit. A 96-hour extraction window. At Station One the team clears a Splinter pack ...

They have built a place worth living in. Now they must fight for the people still beyond its walls. Five months after the fighting, Moosehill has schools, workshops, and families beginning to believe they have a future. Beyond its defenses, the infected still roam—and men like John Black have found ways to turn the collapse into power. In Springfield, families live under armed guard. People with useful skills are forced to work. Those who escape leave loved ones behind. For Mike and the Moosehill Militia, the choice is becoming impossible to ignore. They have spent months rebuilding their...

They were the first. Before the Rangers had a legend, a handful of ordinary men had to go out and earn it — in the dark, on foot, with everything to lose. Jack Miller came to the war to disappear. A quiet marksman off a hardscrabble farm in the Texas Panhandle, he joined the newborn 1st Ranger Battalion to vanish into something bigger than himself. Instead the Army found the one thing he was good at, reading ground, moving unseen, killing at a distance, and made him the pair of eyes an entire company would come to depend on. From the freezing hills of Scotland to the black water off Arzew...

Every second means the difference between life and death. In the chaos of modern warfare, survival often depends not only on courage and firepower, but on the speed and skill of those who rush toward danger to save lives. Heroes of PALMAR tells the remarkable true story of an Israel Defense Forces medical unit that transformed battlefield medicine during the war in Gaza. Facing unprecedented challenges, PALMAR developed innovative methods of casualty evacuation, trauma treatment, and frontline medical response that dramatically improved survival rates under fire. Drawing on firsthand ...

From Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego, a ""powerful"" and ""searing"" memoir of his journey from childhood poverty to Harvard to the Marine Corps, where served in the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima...

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 ...

Bloomsbury presents Dogwood: A National Guard Unit's War in Iraq by Andrew Wiest, read by Eric Meyers. This is an unsparing account of the sharp end of war written by one of the finest military historians of his generation. Andrew Wiest, author of the bestselling Boys of ’67, traces the...

March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know...

"Боевая единица" - фантастический роман Артёма Каменистого, вторая книга цикла "Практикантка", жанр боевая фантастика. Зря Алина покинула Монастырь, очень даже зря... Большой Мир только и дожидался этого, чтобы устроить ей неприятности по полной программе. Опять одна, на улицах большого города, ставшего для нее опаснее дикой тайги. Агенты странного магистра, спецслужбы, Тринадцатый со своей смертоносной свитой...

Twelve men jumped into the dark over Normandy. Before the sun is up, Sergeant Calvin Pruett can't find one of them. He comes down two miles off his drop zone with a dead radio, a rib that healed wrong over Sicily, and no one from his stick in sight. The objective is a flooded causeway across the Merderet River. Between Pruett and that bridge lie three miles of Norman hedgerow, a scattered handful of paratroopers he gathers as he finds them, and six days of fighting decided one field, one gun, one decision at a time. On the far bank waits Oberleutnant Werner Brandt — a German company ...

Not only was the Stonewall Brigade present at most of the major engagements in the Eastern theater, more often than not, they were positioned at the edge of the front line of battle. It can be fairly stated that while these men may not have been more heroic or courageous than any other soldiers who fought in the Civil War, they appeared in the first wave of volunteers immediately after Virginia announced secession, were better trained, were more skillfully directed, and showed greater dedication to the cause and their leader than most regiments on either side of the conflict.

C.A.D.S. -- The Computerized Attack-Defense System combat armor suit. A metal alloy/supraplastic spacesuit-like outfit designed for the post-nuke war environment. The seven-foot high, two hundred pound C.A.D.S. suit is an armored, air-conditioned, computerized marvel that gives the man inside it the power of a Greek god of old. The servo-mechanism driven C.A.D.S. suit can even hover on its powerful gyro-stabilized boot jets and perform feats of incredible strength with servo-assisted muscle power. A Tech Commando resembles a one-eyed Martian in his sensor-bristling C.A.D.S. rig. The ...