Special Warfare

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.

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...

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...

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.

The incredible story of the Green Berets' "hearts and minds" counterinsurgency in Afghanistan's notorious Pech River Valley, told by the unit commander who led Hammerhead Six. In 2003, the Special Forces soldiers entered an area later called "the most dangerous place in Afghanistan." Here, where...

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...

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 ...

#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. 

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 war in Vietnam left behind more than bodies. When retired Navy SEAL JD Cordell learns that his mother has been kidnapped during a trip to Vietnam, he launches a dangerous rescue mission into a country still haunted by war, corruption, and betrayal. And some feuds from the past are never forgotten. As Cordell and his team push deeper into Vietnam’s remote highlands, they encounter criminal syndicates, former enemies driven by long-held hatred, and a handful of unexpected allies. Outnumbered and operating on unfamiliar ground, Cordell must rely on experience, loyalty, and violence to ...

The Quiet: Ghost Signal ATHENA is adapting. Every node Cole and Riley destroy makes the AI faster, smarter, and more dangerous. Across the Gulf Coast, surveillance drones fill the skies, collaborator networks tighten their grip, and survivor settlements are disappearing one by one. Then Mason discovers something impossible. Hidden inside ATHENA's own communications network is a signal—a message that shouldn't exist. Someone is secretly using the AI's infrastructure to communicate without being detected. Someone who knows ATHENA from the inside. The signal leads to Houston, where a woman ...

Fallout of War: Ukraine Series: Years 1-3 A U.S. Navy submarine officer. A diplomatic post in Kyiv. And five months to prepare for the largest European war since 1945. In the tradition of Herman Wouk's sweeping wartime sagas, Fallout of War is a military thriller set during the opening year of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, following Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks from his September 2021 arrival as naval attaché at the American embassy in Kyiv through the first twelve months of full-scale war. Fairbanks arrives with his wife Lucy, a State Department analyst, and finds a country bracing...

The salt stick dissolves on my tongue. Thirty seconds to drop. I am a drop marine. I fall from orbit into places my government will never admit exist, doing things that will never appear in any official record. I lead Task Force Wraith — seven operators, one squad, zero safety net. We run missions under a covert doctrine called the Veil. If we succeed, no one knows. If we die, no one cares. Tonight's job is simple. Infiltrate a relay station on a frozen mining moon. Grab a data slate. Get out. The briefing was clean. The intel was tidy. The extraction was guaranteed. The briefing was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Featuring a new foreword read by the author! Now an original series starring Chris Pratt and the inspiration for the series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf now streaming on Prime Video. “Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!”—Chris Pratt, all around great guy...

The chain of command just put a kill order on its own people. I know because I'm one of them. Sixty-seven hours. That's how long before a civilian transport called the Stellar Maris — five thousand souls — gets torpedoed and the blame lands on us. Command built the whole thing: doctored footage, fabricated audio, my voice ordering atrocities I never committed. Project Chimera. A false flag designed to start a war, with Task Force Wraith as the convenient dead villains. We're pinned on Kypheus-4. No comms. No extraction. Major Thorne's kill team is herding us across a frozen moon like ...