Military Combat

My Journey as a Combat Medic is a no-holds-barred look at the modern medic in the US Army, allowing us a glimpse at the training as a soldier and as a specialist, as well as deployment and front-line duties and the impact of service on civilian life, including an honest look at PTSD, from the author's own personal experience. Rather than a technical manual, My Journey as a Combat Medic is a detailed firsthand account, concluding with a letter to new medics, providing a career's worth of advice and knowledge as they begin their journeys.

Join Ben Clarkson and the men of Bravo Company Ben in the mud and snow of a distant mountaintop in Afghanistan where they are having a very bad day that's about to get worse. As Sun Tsu said no plan survives contact with the enemy and Ben and his Marines are about to experience that firsthand as they have to make the hard choices execute the mission and do their duty, regardless of cost.

Mitch is thrust into a CIA-sanctioned manhunt, tracking down Fulcrum and its rogue mercenaries while dispensing his own brand of justice along the way. With the discovery of a deadly bioweapon in the works, Mitch and an eclectic team of operators must go to desperate lengths as they pursue the terrorists before a crippling attack on the U.S. is unleashed. NOTE: This is the second volume of a two part mission. The first half of the story can be found in part one, Blood and Honor which is Volume 9 in the Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker Series.

At the height of World War II, LOOK Magazine profiled a small upstate New York community for a series of articles portraying it as the wholesome, patriotic model of life on the home front. Seventy years later, a history teacher tracks down the veterans with a connection to “Hometown, USA” who fought the war in the air over Europe, men who were tempered in the tough times of the Great Depression and forged in battle.

Come along and join in on in this Combat action adventure in the South Pacific, as U.S. forces take on the Japanese Army in a battle to free occupied Islands of the South Pacific along side brave Filipino Guerilla fighters, Come along as they go head to head with Japanese forces who refused to accept defeat as they launch deadly attacks on the Marines as they make landfall in a quest to defeat the Emperor's Savage Japanese army, willing to die for their Emperor, defeat was not an option, as they vowed to fight till the last man standing. Soon after Sergeant Sanders and his commando's arrive...

Up in the mountains of Afghanistan, one of Mike Waltz's snipers watched through his scope as a young boy acted as a spotter for the Taliban mortars attacking a Green Beret position. The sniper requested permission to fire. Waltz refused, insisting on restraint. The child was spared, and the position was held. Later that same day, Waltz visited a nearby Afghan village and discovered the Taliban had hanged a boy in front of his family—because the child wasn't willing to fight for them.

From Larry J. Musson comes an authentic account of combat with an airborne company in the waterlogged rice paddies and demanding jungles of South Vietnam. Share the experiences of fighting men under punishing conditions, extreme temperatures, and intense monsoon rains as they search for the enemy in the rugged mountains and teeming lowlands. Relive all the terror, humor, and sadness of one man's tour of duty with real-life action in spectacular, stunning detail.

1st Lieutenant Robin Bartlett suddenly found himself at the "repo-depo" in Bien Hoa reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. The unit had more helicopter support than any other unit in Vietnam. Immediate support from artillery, helicopter gunships, and ARA was only minutes away to support a firefight. Wounded troops could be medevaced even in dense jungle using "jungle penetrators." It also meant that Bartlett's platoon could deploy through helicopter combat assaults into hot LZs (landing zones) at a moment's notice if an enemy force had been spotted. And they did.

North and South Korea are on a collision course with the prospect of reigniting war in this action-packed military thriller! 1LT Sam Harper, surfing engineer, tries to fit in on his new job. He’ll risk everything to prevent mass destruction. Sam’s intelligence analysts identify security vulnerabilities in a government lab in Seoul. Meanwhile, his CIA ex-girlfriend complicates his life with her spy priorities. A desperate North Korean general sends a naive Special Forces lieutenant and his team across the DMZ to steal nuclear materials technology. Sends them disguised to infiltrate the ...

THEIR ARENA. HIS RULES. An action-packed space opera from Amazon All-Star author Daniel Young! When Captain Joel Richmond is shot down during humanity's war against the invading Brath, he crashes on a planet where combat isn't just a means of war - it's entertainment. Sentenced to the Necrodrome, a deadly arena where prisoners pilot starships in lethal aerial battles for the masses, Richmond faces a stark choice: kill his fellow inmates or die trying. But Richmond isn't playing by their rules. In a world where alliances mean death, he's building them. Where survival means destroying others,...

Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail - a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber with the squeeze of a trigger.

At 6:00 a.m. on the morning of October 3, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating was viciously attacked by Taliban insurgents. The 53 U.S. troops, having been stationed at the bottom of three steep mountains, were severely outmanned by nearly 400 Taliban fighters. Though the Americans ultimately prevailed, their casualties made it one of the war's deadliest battles for U.S. forces. And after more than three years in that dangerous and vulnerable valley a mere 14 miles from the Pakistan border, the U.S. abandoned and bombed the camp.

The New York Times best-selling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets.

Silver Wing: Code Red Skies is a pulse-pounding, character-driven military suspense novel that brings together six unforgettable tropes: the Fearless Female Pilot (Samantha “Silver” Mercer), the Loyal Mechanic (Dutch, who knows her jet better than anyone), the Tech Genius (Blaze, who can hack or fix anything with a pulse), the By-the-Book Strategist (Lillian, balancing logic and moral lines), the Rogue with a Heart (Jackal, the unpredictable trickster with deadly instincts), and the AI Conscience (Piper, Silver’s voice of logic and silent partner in survival). Each character plays a ...

Military Secrets! How Math and Wargaming Can Prevent and Win Conflicts!In modern war, making informed decisions is key to winning & preventing conflicts. "War is Math: How to Use Wargaming to Prevent & Win Wars" offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding war through the lens of mathematics, including elementary game theory, probablity, and statistics. Wargaming enables policymakers and military strategists to develop effective strategies for preventing and resolving conflicts and winning wars. You'll get a comprehensive guide to using math in wargames, exploring its applications, ...

A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there’s a mother-ship out on the edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense?

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

In this strikingly original and groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written 27 centuries ago, it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.

Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. Military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy.

A World War II Military Thriller Inspired by True Events of the Winter War In the frozen skies of 1939 Finland, death doesn’t come from above—it hunts in formation. As the Soviet invasion begins, Finnish fighter ace Lieutenant Veikko Niemi takes to the air in his outclassed Fokker D.XXI, battling overwhelming numbers in defense of his homeland. But something is different this time. The Soviet pilots aren't flying blind bombing runs—they’re coordinated, precise, and deadly. Led by the enigmatic Major Grigori Chernyavin, a disgraced stunt pilot returned from Stalin’s purges, the ...