Ship of Rome (Masters of the Sea)

Opposed to a backdrop of the conflict of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the conflict for sovereignty happens at the excessive seasAtticus, captain of 1 of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing relations. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard send, is from Rome, born right into a ordinarily military kinfolk.

Intelligence Analysis: How to Think in Complex Environments (Praeger Security International)

This booklet deals an unlimited conceptual and theoretical exploration of the methods intelligence research needs to switch to be able to prevail opposed to modern-day most deadly fighters and most intricate abnormal theatres of clash. • contains quotations from quite a lot of acclaimed thinkers• bargains an in depth bibliography of works pointed out and assets for additional studying• offers a accomplished index

Inside Delta Force

They're the Army's so much elite top-secret strike strength. yet you will not listen approximately their heroics at the information, no headlines approximately them can seem within the papers, and no one—not even their families—can comprehend who they're. First particular Forces Operational Detachment-D—Delta strength, America's supersecret counterterrorist unit.

Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces (A Study in Command)

An unconventional struggle calls for unconventional men—the distinctive Forces.

Green Berets • army SEALS • Rangers •
Air strength precise Operations • PsyOps • Civil Affairs •
and different special-mission devices

The first Commanders books, each guy a Tiger and Into the typhoon, supplied masterly blends of background, biography, you-are-there narrative, perception into the perform of management, and simple outdated storytelling. Shadow Warriors is all of that and extra, a publication of unusual timeliness, for, within the phrases of Lieutenant common invoice Yarborough, “there are itches that basically certain Forces can scratch. ”

Now, Carl Stiner—the moment commander of SOCOM, the U. S. exact Operations Command—and Tom Clancy hint the transformation of the targeted Forces from the small center of outsiders of the Fifties, during the cauldron of Vietnam, to the rebirth of the SF within the overdue Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, and on into the recent century because the bearer of the biggest, such a lot combined, and most complicated set of missions within the U. S. military.

These are the first-hand debts of squaddies combating open air the traces: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance, counterinsurgency, and mental operations—from Vietnam and Laos to Lebanon to Panama, to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the recent wars of today…