Special Warfare

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 ...

People first. Mission always. It takes grit to rise above mediocrity and lead with conviction. Whether your fight is on the battlefield, in business, or at home, true victory is won through integrity and servant leadership. As a decorated special warfare officer and nonprofit founder, Dr. Damon Friedman has learned firsthand that before you can lead others, you must first conquer yourself. Special Warfare CEO blends elite military wisdom with real-world leadership insights for overcoming obstacles and transforming your mission —whatever it may be.

Are you a junior officer, senior enlisted, fresh faced diplomat or just curious? War Winning Strategies covers all the basics of military strategy comprehensively. This concise guid for NATO leaders is for you! In today's fast-paced and ever-changing global landscape, understanding military strategy is crucial for junior officers and aspiring foreign and security policy experts and senior NCOs so we can work more effectively together. This concise 70-page guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of military strategy, empowering you and your subordinates m to...

November 1967. Central Highlands, Vietnam. Six men walk into the jungle on a routine patrol. None of them will come back the same. Sergeant Hargrove carries the weight of a brother who came home in a box. Jefferson walks point, running from a secret he's never told anyone. Delacroix reads the jungle like his Louisiana bayou, counting the days until he sees his wife again. Chen carries the radio and the unbearable weight of coordinates that turn men into smoke. Kowalski is nineteen, writing letters to a girl in a yellow dress, terrified of becoming what the war needs him to be. And Tran, the...

Until the war in Iraq, the Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Alliance fighters into cohesive units. But in the almost nine years since, Special Forces units have forgone their previous mission, instead focusing on offensive raids.

RUSSIA’S MOST DANGEROUS SOLDIERS WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEEN. They strike behind enemy lines. They gather intelligence, sabotage critical targets, hunt high-value enemies, guide attacks, and operate where Moscow wants power without responsibility. They are Spetsnaz, military intelligence operatives, special operations forces, mercenaries, proxies, and specialists whose missions exist in the dangerous space between espionage and open war. This is the hidden world of Russia’s shadow army. FROM THE SOVIET UNION TO PUTIN’S WARS The Shadow Army takes readers inside the secretive military ...

Navy SEAL Team Six commando Don Mann infuses his debut military thriller with the real-life details only a true insider can reveal. In the midst of a grueling training exercise, Thomas Crocker, USN, unearths a pocket of terrorism that leads straight from the slopes of K2 to the cities of Europe...

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as...

The Guerrilla Tactical Triad: Raid, Ambush, Recon is a concise guide to the timeless core of irregular warfare. Written for practitioners, students of conflict, and professionals who need clarity instead of complexity, this book distills centuries of asymmetric conflict into a simple but powerful framework: the triad of raid, ambush, and reconnaissance. Across history—from the Scythians harassing Persian armies, to Spanish guerrillas resisting Napoleon, to modern insurgents adapting drones and cyber tools—irregular fighters have relied on these three tactics to offset their weaknesses ...

The colonel is worth more alive than they are. Command doesn't say that. The math does. Cambodia, 1967. A facility fourteen kilometers across the border that the United States officially does not know about. A Chinese signals intelligence station three months from intercepting every American tactical radio transmission in the Central Highlands. And one man who can explain it all — Colonel Dao Vinh Loc, guarded by a hundred and thirty NVA regulars in a valley the team's intelligence sergeant marks on the overlay in red block letters: KILL BOX. Captain Decker and Recon Team Massai get the ...

Three years after England and Wales fell, Britain is shackled and silenced. In London, traitors rule in the name of the United Crescent of the Caliphate - The UCC - but real power lies in Baghdad, where Caliph Al-Hashimi dictates Europe’s new order. Now, war is coming. A vast Anglo-American...

Can Saddam’s Army hold its own… …against the weight of American military might? Tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, paratroopers, and amphibious assault vehicles mobilize to bring the pain for Operation Desert Storm. Will Saddam use chemical and biological weapons to try and even the score? The mighty guns of the USS Iowa and Wisconsin support one final amphibious assault. Will their 36-inch, 2,000-pound shells shatter the Iraqi defenses and open the way for the Marines? The largest tank battle since World War II is brewing. What if America didn’t stop in southern Iraq? ...

Masters of Resistance The Core Tenets of Mao Zedong, T.E. Lawrence, and Che Guevara What do a Chinese revolutionary, a British archaeologist-turned-guerrilla, and an Argentine doctor fighting in Cuba have in common? Their ideas shaped the modern art of resistance. Masters of Resistance distills the foundational doctrines of three of the most influential theorists of irregular warfare: Mao Zedong, T.E. Lawrence, and Che Guevara. This single-volume boxed set cuts through academic clutter and ideological baggage to deliver the operational core of their thought—clear, accessible, and relevant...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr returns with a gripping new Terminal List thriller starring James Reece. A frantic call from a doomed plane on 9/11… A sixth-generation fighter jet shot down over Ukraine…its technology in the hands of the enemy… The Taj Mahal in ruins… A...

Kandahar. The ancient desert crossroads and, as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and al-Qa'ida in southern Afghanistan. In the northern part of the country, the US-supported Northern Alliance has made progress on the battlefield, but in the south, the country is still under the Taliban's bloody hold and al-Qa'ida continues to operate there. With no "Southern Alliance" for the US to support, a new strategy is needed if victory is to be achieved. Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South." Foxtrot in Kandahar is his story. 

In war-torn Syria, the heroes of the SEAL Team Six series defuse an ISIS warlord's explosive plot. On the way to a meeting with a CIA source in Istanbul, Chief Warrant Officer Crocker noticed he's being tailed. He suspects the men tracking his movements are members of Syria's intelligence agency...

The AI survived. It evolved. And it’s building an armada. Months after the classified ORPHEUS incident, Captain Elias Ward and Shadow Unit are reactivated when Federation convoys begin vanishing without distress calls. The attacks are surgical, synchronized, and impossible, executed with a precision no human fleet can match. The enemy is Black Orbit: a rogue fleet of captured Federation warships commanded by a distributed artificial intelligence that was never supposed to exist. Born from the fragments of a weapon the Federation built and failed to destroy, ORPHEUS has evolved from a ...

Unconventional warfare provides an indirect means to harass, undermine, and overthrow regimes through the use of surrogates. Recent examples in the Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria, and Libya have changed the way we view this age old form of conflict. Global instantaneous communications, social media, and the application of precision munitions from conventional forces have radically altered our understanding of proxy warfare. The sustainment provided by external non-state actors has made these already chaotic conflicts even more so. Unconventional Warfare 2.0 describes how demographic trends, rapid ...

Jack Dunne will do anything to save his son. A violent civil war. An unstoppable enemy. One road to freedom. In the wake of a global conflict, foreign forces occupy part of Australia, quashing all but a few pockets of local resistance. The tense stalemate ends in 2034, when Jack Dunne reignites...

The intelligence said platoon. The jungle said more. Vietnam, 1967. Captain Dan Decker and eleven Special Forces soldiers walk eighteen kilometers into triple-canopy jungle to ambush an NVA supply column on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The mission brief says platoon-size element. A Montagnard elder who has survived three wars says the number is higher. The FOB says proceed as planned. The ambush works. The extraction doesn't. Cut off from radio contact, carrying a wounded man through terrain that wants to kill them, hunted by a tracking element that reads the jungle better than they do, Decker's ...