Urban Combat

The western world is devolving into war, hyperinflation, and socio-political chaos making preparation for post-SHTF survival more fraught than ever for suburbanites. Not all of us are fortunate enough to live in rural areas or have bug-out cabins in remote mountains. The majority of the population will have to survive, and fight, where they are in cities big and small. Rather than give it up for lost, this book provides analysis of the uncertain urban world to come and how to navigate its dangers. Civil war is an unpleasant almost certainty. Average citizens will be called to take up the ...

Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy is the story of boots on the ground in Iraq, as seen through the eyes of a tank platoon leader. Baqubah, on the eve of the Surge, and Sadr City, during the spring uprising of 2008, saw some of the darkest hours of the war. A tough dragon, the M1A2 Abrams tank and its crews were often called to crack the toughest nuts on the battlefield, and victory, even survival, was not guaranteed. It is a gritty and visceral dive into the combat experience, flavored with the anguish of loss, the exhilaration of victories, the frustrations of defeats, and the humor required...

The System arrived. Humanity fell. Oscar just wanted to build a better toaster. When the Galactic Integration transformed Earth into a ruthless tutorial zone for the wider universe, billions perished. Monsters roam the ruined streets of Seattle, and the survivors are busy forming guilds, claiming combat classes, and fighting over mana crystals. Oscar didn’t get a combat class. Thanks to his obsession with fixing broken electronics when the System dropped, he was assigned the lowest-tier crafting class available: Junkmancer. Armed with a rusty wrench, a sarcastic System interface, and the ...

The loop didn't end. It just got bigger. Unit 734 has survived the digital void and the fire of atmospheric re-entry. But waking up in the "Real World" isn't the victory it expected. Locked into a rusted, pitted chassis in a brutalist facility where gravity is a crushing 1.5g, 734 finds itself at the bottom of the food chain once again. The war-frames are gone. The sleek interfaces are glitching. In their place is the cold reality of rust, hydraulic leaks, and the "Warden"—the iron-fisted jailer of Iteration 14,003. As the sky tears open to reveal a violet rift of "Reality Overflow," 734 ...

CITY OF FIRE Fallujah 2004 and the Six Weeks of Urban Combat that Rewrote the Iraq War by Gary Mitchell In 2004, Fallujah became the word people used when they meant urban war. The city was fought twice. The second battle—Operation Phantom Fury / al-Fajr—ran from November into late December and turned neighbourhoods into grids of pressure, smoke, and exhaustion. Streets became corridors. Houses became strongpoints. Control shrank to a doorway and a stairwell—and every decision carried a cost. City of Fire follows the campaign as it actually unfolded: the tightening cordon, the iron ...

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...

The first book in The Last War series: a debut epic fantasy full of crunching revolutionary action, twisted magic, and hard choices in dark times. The war is over. The enemy won. Jia's people learned the hard way that there are no second chances. The Egril, their ancient enemy, struck with magic...

Did you know that the latest technology and research shows that the brain undergoes very specific changes in its functioning during a close combat incident? Whether training for self defence, law enforcement / military close combat procedures, or traditional martial arts and sports fighting: under certain conditions the brain will switch from one mode of functioning to another. The Maul Book is the first book to delve into this research, and through extensive testing within different close combat environments, integrate this research into new and fresh training methodologies. The Maul Book ...

They came to the forest to capture a weapon. They just became prey. Cole Marsden thought the blood was finally washed from his hands. Deep in the remote Whispering Peaks National Forest, the cursed ranger lives a life of brutal isolation, guarding the woods and hiding the beast within. But his sanctuary is shattered when a heavily armed private military team descends upon the mountains. Funded by a shadowy biotech corporation, Commander Devon Baker and his elite mercenaries aren't here to hunt animals. They are tracking a highly classified biological asset. Armed with thermal drones, sonic ...

He survived the wastes. He built a sanctuary. Now, Oscar is taking his rusted empire to the global stage. Summoned to a high-stakes summit in Geneva, Oscar leaves the safety of the Apex Forge to face the Global Council—a ruling elite obsessed with pristine perfection and absolute control. But Oscar has no intention of playing by their rules or bowing to their demands. At the helm of the Sovereign’s Wake, a colossal, custom-forged dreadnought, Oscar and his elite strike team plunge into the dark, monster-infested depths of the trans-oceanic tunnels. The Council expects a compliant, ...

Some shots echo forever. At nineteen, Marko enlists with fire in his heart and dreams of glory. War, he believes, will be his great adventure -a chance to prove himself, to matter, to become something more. Through gruelling training, Marko is transformed into an elite sniper, mastering the art of patience, precision, and the cold mathematics of distance and death. But when he is deployed in the Balkans as the conflict ignites, the romance of war evaporates with the first shot. The adventure he imagined becomes a nightmare he can't escape. The skills he was so proud to learn bind him to a ...

Winning the city was the easy part. Keeping it is going to take a lot more duct tape. Oscar has officially claimed the Apex Forge. As the new Administrator, he’s got a throne made of welded mech-parts, a snarky AI integrated into the mainframe, and a Paladin acting as his head of security. There’s just one problem: his junk-virus hack saved their lives, but it completely fried the city's supply chains. The Forge is out of raw materials, and the life-support systems are ticking down. Before Oscar can even allocate his new stat points to fix the mess, the Deep Network comes online. The ...

An adrenaline-fueled chase... It stands seven feet tall and weighs a muscular 400 pounds. Full of malice, it boards the plane. Federal Air Marshal James Grey is still trying to get over losing the love of his life and wants nothing more than a routine flight. It has other ideas. Neither the federal government nor James is prepared for what's to come, including fanatical cultists who are hell-bent on releasing a world-destroying monster. Can James and his team stop them and convince others to help them in their fight, or will a horrifying behemoth with an insatiable appetite destroy every ...

They came during peak season. Fifty thousand families. Cotton candy and fireworks. Then the sky split open and something landed in the world's greatest theme park. Second Lieutenant Sarah Wright has a rifle team, a retired Delta operator who won't follow orders, a Navy corpsman running low on supplies, and a civilian country singer who shouldn't even be here. No air support. No comms. No extraction. The park is sealed. The aliens are adapting. And whatever is running the invasion just learned how human beings panic. Wright was trained for every scenario the Marine Corps could throw at her. ...

No Safe Streets The Siege of Ramadi — How Al-Qaeda in Iraq Was Broken By Gary Mitchell Ramadi teaches you fast that noise is not information. Engines, shutters, distant thumps—none of it tells you where the danger is. The threat lives inside windows. It waits in doorways that won’t stay shut. It watches. In the middle years of the Iraq War, this dusty river city became a strategic knot—roads, tribal power, provincial authority, and a corridor leading straight to the capital. For insurgents it was a sanctuary and a stage. For the coalition it became an argument that had to be ...

The Germans didn’t fortify Santeramo. They taught it to kill. September 1943. Salerno has held, and the British Eighth Army is driving inland out of Taranto. Sent east to buy time, Hauptmann Lukas Voss doesn’t turn the hill town in its path into a fortress. He turns it into a machine, eight scoped rifles joined by a single design, in a town where every window, courtyard, and crossing has been read in advance, and the first shot is never the one that kills you. A British battalion takes the southern streets in a morning. By noon it can’t cross a single intersection. The radios die. The...

Seven floors. Six killing rooms. One way out. Mack Ruthless wakes up hooded, restrained, and trapped inside a secret laboratory beneath New Concordia’s industrial district. His captors have spent years turning condemned men into reanimated soldiers, flesh-eating swarms, and genetically engineered predators. Now they want to know how their creations measure up against a natural-born killer. To earn his freedom, Mack must descend through a slaughterhouse of failed experiments armed with nothing but a fire axe and the violence that made him infamous. Every floor brings something bigger, ...

The jungle kept its secrets. It always had. But some secrets refuse to stay buried. When a scientific expedition vanishes without a trace in the uncharted depths of the Javari Valley, elite recovery specialist Dylan Hale gets the call. The mission is simple: get in, find the researchers, and get out. But the deep rainforest is hiding more than missing scientists. Deep within a pre-Columbian ruin built not for worship, but for containment, an apex predator has awakened. Engineered for slaughter and equipped with active camouflage that makes it practically invisible in the canopy, it doesn't ...

Le sang est une arme. Celle des Ombres. Ces créatures sans visage qui détruisent les Hommes. Quel lien les unit à Kira ? Le seul et unique soldat capable de les anéantir afin de protéger l'espèce humaine, cloîtrée sous terre, régie par la terreur. Seulement voilà, tout pouvoir demande des sacrifices. Et Ellis, jeune recrue, est désignée pour devenir sa nouvelle Source, celle dans laquelle il plongera sans hésitation pour se nourrir de l'énergie nécessaire pour alimenter son pouvoir... même si pour cela, il doit lui voler sa vie.

Modern urban combat is not fought on a flat map. It is fought across streets, basements, tunnels, stairwells, rooftops, windows, courtyards, rubble, and the contested airspace immediately above the fight. The city compresses distance, fragments command and control, degrades communications, multiplies concealed threats, and forces decisions downward onto the small units actually entering buildings, crossing intersections, clearing rooms, and holding ground under pressure. Streets, Sewers, and Skylines is a tactical manual for that fight. Written as the companion volume to The Four-Floor War,...