Future World War

The Future of War - which covers civil wars to as yet unknown nuclear conflicts, proxy wars (real) to the Cold War (not), fashionably small wars to the War to End All Wars (it didn't) - is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.

Amazon Reviewer from Author's novel sALIENt - 5 Stars: Fast paced and unputdownable - "I really enjoyed reading this book. I didn't stop reading till the end. I really liked the characters and it's an incredible story. It would make a great movie." USA Amazon Reviewer for FUTURE WARS - 5 Stars: "Future Wars grabbed my attention right from the start and didn’t let go. Joe Valencia’s sudden journey into a dystopian future after a visit to Stonehenge is a wild ride. The blend of science fiction, time travel, and historical adventure makes for a compelling read. If you're a fan of thrillers...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a...

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: What can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight—and from her attempts to get US congress to act—make for essential listening.

Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insiders—as well as...

The aliens are back. France is under siege. As the Martians prepare to attack Paris, roving bands of rogue soldiers pillage the country, taking whatever they please. The nightmare has returned. Christian was a child when he lost his family in the first Martian attack. Now, he wants nothing more than to avenge their deaths and punish the murderous aliens and traitors who work with them.

“DIVIDED WE FALL” The Shocking 2024 Presidential Election Bitterness and anger within the U.S. came to a boiling point beginning in the 2016 presidential election over immigration, abortion, rising crime, wokeism and critical race theory. The divisions have grown with each subsequent election, but new challenges have emerged, including inflation and the wars in Ukraine and Israel. In 2025, President-elect Trump is implementing extreme changes to our border security, immigration, economic, and foreign policy, while shrinking the size and scope of the federal government. Every move is ...

Ashes of Tomorrow is a chillingly realistic near-future thriller that asks: What if the Third World War didn’t begin with a single bomb, but with hunger, fear, and collapse? When famine in Africa spirals out of control, when black markets in Asia ignite, when Europe fractures under the refugee tide, and when the Pacific boils with warships, the world teeters on the edge of annihilation. From Tokyo to Tehran, from Washington to São Paulo, leaders gamble with the lives of billions, while civilians struggle to survive the chaos they never asked for. Told across 22 riveting chapters, Ashes ...

Modern military thriller meets hard science fiction in this harrowing narrative where nations face off across the planet and up in space. When climate change pushes the United States to the brink of civil war, China tries to take advantage of the countrywide chaos by launching an assault in force. The Chinese Communist Party finds that the most powerful nation in the world can still defend her title in spite of the deadly domestic disturbances. A cold war sets in, which turns hot again when the terrestrial superpowers clash over the ability to harvest asteroid-bound precious metals in space...

In the year 2040, humanity has spread into space with orbital stations, lunar bases, and fleets of powerful warships. Geopolitical turmoil still plagues the planet below though. When the megalomaniacal supreme leader of North Korea gets her hands on a secret cyberweapon, she makes a bid for global domination, casting civilization into fiery conflict. War rages across the American home front while military forces in space engage in devastating ship-to-ship battles in this explosive sequel to Matt Charles's To the Brink.

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

The Lost Continent: At the edge of the world, an impossible relic from the fables of antiquity has risen from the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Professor Logan and his exploration team rush to investigate this historic find, but this unique discovery puts their lives in peril when they unearth the remnants of a long-forgotten civilization left buried beneath the ice. Within the twisting labyrinths below the melting glaciers, they uncover an ancient culture which had perished from a mysterious cataclysm. They soon realize it was a polar shift which had caused their destruction, and our ...

Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century.

Winds of war sweep across Europe, threatening to engulf the entire globe. After the cloning company Phoenvartis is taken over by a World Council henchman, he launches an inquisition of torture and murder. A revolutionary group opposed to the World Council has gained access to the cloning machine, and they plan to revive a madman from the 20th century. Meanwhile, the previously cloned Founding Father and a group of former Phoenvartis employees flee to the central highlands of Vietnam. From their jungle base, they form a coalition of freedom-loving patriots from around the world.

In September 1945, at the end of the second book in this series, Raider Brigade Book 2 The Russian Bear, Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Dan West, RAIDER BRIGADE Executive Officer and the RAIDER BRIGADE have been moved back to Schweinfurt, Germany for rest and recuperation after fighting the Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army in Poland. After several days at the 1945 Schweinfurt military kasernes, they wake up on 14 September and learn they have passed back through a time warp and landed at Conn and Ledward Barracks in the year 1988. Follow LTC West and the RAIDER BRIGADE as they are reunited with their ...

The world is doomed, and time is running out. In the near future, a stellar collision with a rogue planet destabilizes the sun’s fusion output, turning it into a ticking time bomb. With the ever-increasing heat, earth will become uninhabitable within a decade. A handful of individuals will determine whether humanity survives: NASA scientist Dr. Olivia Quinn must outwit a corrupt government system and warn the public before it’s too late. Veteran astronaut Valerie McKinnon and her crew are in a race against time to build a space colony that could rescue a multitude of lives. And ...

Magda Aklyan leads her tiny Exodus flotilla through unmapped Boca do Inferno, then on through more star systems on the way to sanctuary and forever war in exile. Jahandar grows from cruel and plague pocked boy into a murderous revolutionary, then the sole leader of the Dauran Empire after killing the old emperor and his entire family with a laser axe, then all other revolutionary leaders. He rips worlds and peoples and the lives of his own family apart, while installing the most savage terror regime in all the histories of the Thousand Worlds. He ultimately claims the mantle of a living god...

Come si combatte e come si muore nella Grande Guerra? Artiglierie micidiali, mitragliatrici sterminatrici, bombardamenti aerei futuribili; ma anche trincee di fango, doline allagate, il secco terreno carsico appena scalfito. Ogni battaglia ha significato per decine di milioni di europei essere esposti al rischio di morire in modi opposti, ora modernissimi ora arcaici; colpiti da lontano e dall'alto da granate e bombe devastanti o in attacchi corpo a corpo, alla baionetta, al pugnale, con mazze quasi medievali.

Are You Brave Enough to Face the Next Century? Read these decade-by-decade predictions for the future. In Final Warning, a fearless analysis of our world’s trajectory, the next hundred years (2025–2125) unfold as an unrelenting nightmare. This is nonfiction that reads like a political thriller, delivering relentless urgency and gut-wrenching revelations. Global capitalism is dying, and with it goes the stability of modern civilization. The dominoes are already falling, and no one will be spared in the fallout. Read it now, before reality catches up to these predictions: Constant warfare...

One Man’s Prophecy. One Ship’s Mission. Humanity’s Last Chance. Wrongfully imprisoned in a Russian gulag, Polku Tallus is given one impossible choice—become a pawn in a classified time-travel experiment or die. But when he arrives in the year 2094, the world is nothing like he expected. Earth is shrouded in darkness, civilization has collapsed, and his captors want him dead the moment he returns. On the run across continents, hunted by Russian agents, and betrayed by the woman he loves, Polku’s story sparks a movement—one that will shape the fate of humanity long after he’s ...