Warfare Science

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What connects a simple bowstring to a modern cannon that can fire faster than a jetliner flies? Across 2,500 years of human history, one truth has never changed: our relentless drive to strike farther, faster, and with greater power. From Bows to Big Guns uncovers the extraordinary journey of artillery, showing how each leap in innovation reshaped not only the battlefield but the very course of civilization itself. Few people know that the first mechanical bows could outshoot the strongest warriors… or that medieval trebuchets hurled flaming stones and even severed heads to break enemies ...

The mysterious aliens attacked the Galactic Coalition Summit on Okuta, sending the Coalition into a tailspin. Hidden in the shadows during the attack, the Noct secretly won the race to find their ancient artifact with devastating star-killing power. And after being lost for a millennium, they plan to use it. Following the events of Shrouded in Darkness, Major Malcolm “Mac” Lambert returns to the Battlecruiser McDaniels, having apprehended the man who kidnapped the Okutan Princess.

Drones have been much maligned in the media and popular culture, and there has been much controversy over their deployment. This book reveals the history of unmanned aircraft, their recent development, and why they have emerged onto the scene, setting the record straight about drones and their use.

A fresh account of some of history's greatest warriors. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the 11th centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, and colonizing - and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps their talent for warfare is too little understood.

A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an adjustment in strategy. Military strategists Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui argue that this dynamic is a crucial weakness in the American military.

Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a guidebook on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for the revolutionary movement. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change.

Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

Throughout antiquity there has been a common theme of a dark, evil force that lingers in the shadows manipulating humanity. This entity has been given many names by different religions, cultures and spiritual modalities. The mythology of this diabolical spirit has been passed down from generation after generation through legends of the “Boogey Man” as well as through the media with groundbreaking films like; The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, The Conjuring, The Evil Dead and every other slasher, horror film you can think of. Through my background in Ethnic Studies, I have ...

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

Over 1,500 Pages of Action-Packed Military Sci-Fi! To save humanity, Earth sold its sons and daughters to an alien war machine. After a global collapse leaves humanity starving, Earth's leaders make a deal with a powerful alien empire: food, technology, and a chance to keep the species alive. The price? Humanity's soldiers now belong to them. Mark Calder used to be a paramedic in New Orleans. His old job involved saving lives, drinking terrible coffee, and occasionally explaining to people why a Google search did not qualify them to perform surgery on themselves. His new job involves being ...

From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced. As World War II wound down, and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best: science and philosophy.

This manual provides a review of the tactical combat advantages enjoyed by zombies and gives the listener a step-by-step guide to adopting them for him or herself. Have you wondered where the great military leaders of modern history have found their collective inspirations? Well look no further. It is the walking dead upon whom the most important tactical infantry innovations of the last three hundred years have been based.

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. When the princess of an unfamiliar alien planet fails to arrive in time for a diplomatic summit with humanity’s top government officials and her spaceship is found floating dead in space, the Space Warfare Group is called into action.

The empire sent its best investigator. He was ready. Commander Cael Ashwick built a fleet from a dead destroyer and a frontier nobody watched. Now the Castellan intelligence directorate is watching, and they've sent an analyst who asks questions the way a surgeon makes incisions. While managing the investigation from the bridge of a pre-collapse heavy cruiser, Cael must expand his fleet through political alliances, discover ancient industrial infrastructure hidden in an asteroid belt, and outmaneuver rival frontier houses through commerce instead of combat. Every victory makes his ...

As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion. In an era of genetic engineering, Henry Gallant is the only Natural left in the United Planets' fleet. With the space fleet on the verge of annihilation from the alien invasion, analyzing the captured computer in Gallant's possession is critical to stopping them. He can expect no help as he navigates through threatening aliens on his way to Mars, and his shipmates doubt he is up to the challenge. But as the last starfighter in Squadron 111, the lives of his shipmates, as well as a good many others, depend on Henry ...

Since the Cold War, outer space has become of strategic importance for nations looking to seize the ultimate high ground. World powers establishing a presence there must consider, among other things, how they will conduct warfare in orbit. Leaders must dispense with "Buck Rogers" notions about operations in space and realize that policies there will have serious ramifications for geopolitics. How should nations view space? How should they fight there? What would space warfare look like and how should strategists approach it?

The Cygnus-Orion Galactic Arm Spur is engulfed in warfare. A four way brawl with its roots a hundred million years prior, with the Lanaktallan Unified Council on one side, a strange invader from a dying universe on another, the Precursor Autonomous War Machines, strengthened by alliances, coming back into the fight, and, of course, the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems. The war has spread to dozens, hundreds of different systems with no signs of stopping. Each side is grimly digging in for the long haul. The vile Atrekna, invaders from another dimension, view the entire universe as ...

A Great House sent a warship. He sent it back broken. Captain Cael Ashwick commands a pre-collapse cruiser, a frontier coalition, and a fleet that shouldn't exist. When the empire's most powerful military house dispatches a task force to investigate an anomalous classification in their own archives, the investigation arrives with eighteen weapon mounts and orders to retrieve or neutralize. A tactical military science fiction LitRPG with fleet-building progression and combat you can follow move by move. With a Castellan intelligence officer embedded on his bridge and a Valdris heavy cruiser ...