Future Military

GOLAN, This is the Future of War, asks a question few want to consider. What will happen if Iran acquires nuclear weapons in the next ten years? In true Future of War style, GOLAN explores the question through the eyes of front-line participants on all sides, in a conflict set ten years into the future. Featuring military tech that is on the drawing boards today and characters you won't easily forget, GOLAN throws the listeners straight into the center of a nuclear storm and doesn't ease up.

Backed by Russian airpower, Syria has begun an operation to push Turkish troops out of Northern Syria. Despite US efforts not to get dragged into the conflict, the US 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines "Lava Dogs", find their hilltop combat outpost encircled and their Kurdish allies under siege. Further west, a Syrian armored advance across the border into Turkey pivots, threatening US troops at the Turkish and NATO airbase of Incirlik. But will Syria be satisfied with reclaiming its northern border region, or is the operation just the first move in a bolder plan to regain lost territories?

Following their best sellers Vulcan's Forge and Vulcan's Heart, Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz embark on a new trilogy chronicling the latter-day adventures of one of Star Trek's most beloved characters, shedding new light on his world's shocking history.

In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy theories, humanity creates Andrones: bipedal android drones piloted remotely by soldiers who will never again need to be on the field of battle. Newly minted Androne pilot Sergeant Paxton Arés has now been deployed into a fight against an enemy no one understands or has ever seen.

In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war. The military organizations that best innovate and adapt to this AI revolution will likely gain significant advantages over their rivals. To this end, great powers such as the United States, China, and Russia are already investing in novel sensing, reasoning, and learning technologies that will alter how militaries plan and fight. The resulting transformation could fundamentally change the character of war.

In the far-flung future, an unknown alien species appears, determined to wipe out humanity. The Solar Union, in making a last-ditch effort to save billions of lives on dozens of different planets, retrieves the soldiers they need from those who’ve died over the past six hundred years.

Out in the Pacific Ocean, there is a war taking place. It is a "warm war", a shoving match between the United States, since World War II the uncontested ruler of the seas, and China, which now possesses the world's largest navy. The Chinese regard the Pacific, and especially the South China Sea, as their ocean, and they're ready to defend it. Each day the heat between the two countries increases as the Chinese try to claim the South China Sea for their own, and the United States insists on asserting freedom of navigation.

Neither a protest against AI, nor a speculative work on how AI could replace humans, Algorithms of Armageddon provides a time-critical understanding of why AI is being implemented through state weaponization, the realities for the global power balance, and more importantly, U.S. national security.

Zero Point Four is a groundbreaking book written by six world-leading maritime, ocean, and security experts, and spearheaded by retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson. This audiobook explores how the U.S. - a maritime nation - finds itself on a dangerous precipice today. After World War II over half the world’s ocean-going commercial ships flew the U.S. flag. Today, it is less than 0.4%. This meticulously researched work scrutinizes the U.S. maritime industry’s significance to America through five ‘Principles’: National, Economic, Energy and Food, Climate, and Workforce Security.

"America at the Crossroads: Parallels with the Roman Empire’s Fall" explores the economic, military, political, and social factors that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire, drawing comparisons with modern-day America.

Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace, biologically enhanced soldiers, autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink. A leading expert on the place of technology in war and intelligence, Robert H. Latiff, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame, has spent a career in the military researching and developing new combat technologies, observing the cost of our unquestioning embrace of innovation.

Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of sci-fi writers. In such a world, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the US and its adversaries, our thinly stretched global military, the capacity for technology to catalyze violence, and the American public's lack of familiarity with these topics.

Kameron Hurley, award-winning author and expert in the future of war and resistance movements, has created eighteen exhilarating tales giving glimpses into the warfare of tomorrow. A bleak future, yet there is hope for us. With Hurley's characteristic grim optimism, her characters fight for what they believe is right. They exhibit degrees of humanity only possible in the worst of circumstances. It is these characters, driven by a murky sense of honor and written with sincere, deep empathy, that make Future Artifacts: Stories a powerful collection you won't soon forget.

Sie können ihn nicht kontrollieren, also versuchen sie mit allen Mitteln, ihn zu töten. Daniel Hunt ist der tödlichste Söldner der Galaxis–wenn er sich nur daran erinnern könnte! Fünf Jahre nachdem er ohne Erinnerungen aufwachte, befindet sich seine Gegenwart auf Kollisionskurs mit seiner Vergangenheit und der Zukunft der gesamten Galaxie. Der Ort, an den er gehen muss, ist die Erde. Doch die Erde ist tot. Die Menschheit ist auf Mond und Mars geflüchtet, um nicht mit ihrer Heimat unterzugehen. Auf dem, was von ihr übrig geblieben ist, kämpfen wilde Banden um die Vorherrschaft.

Krieg bahnt sich am Horizont an. Er hat kein Interesse daran, die erste Koalition von Unternehmen zu führen, die die Galaxie je gekannt hat. Genau aus diesem Grund ist Daniel Hunt perfekt für diese Aufgabe geeignet. Angesichts der größten Bedrohung der Menschheit werden die alten Feinde Rettung finden, und neue Verbündete werden dem Ruf folgen. Noch mehr Geheimnisse werden gelüftet, als Daniel endlich Antworten auf das Schicksal der Frau findet, die er liebt. Wird es das sein, was ihn schließlich zerstört?

Je mehr Geheimnisse er aufdeckt, desto weniger weiß er wirklich. Die Suche nach seiner Vergangenheit hat Daniel vom Mond über die Erde bis zum Mars geführt. Jede wiedererlangte Erinnerung hat zu noch mehr Fragen geführt. Doch alles wird sich bald ändern. Als er die letzten beiden Mitglieder seiner Gruppe, des sogenannten Pack-Protokolls, ausfindig macht, stößt er zugleich auf einen intergalaktischen Feind, der um jeden Preis den Untergang der Menschheit herbeiführen will. Daniel muss seine eigene Suche nach Antworten auf Eis legen, um das Überleben der Menschheit zu sichern.

Daniel Hunt ist noch immer auf der Suche nach Antworten, die Licht in seine Vergangenheit bringen. Dabei stößt er auf den Orden–eine alte Geheimorganisation, die vermutlich für den Untergang der Erde verantwortlich ist. Seine Mission führt ihn in die Badlands des Mars, wo eine ehemalige Kampfgefährtin eine neue Heimat gefunden hat. Leider ist in der kleinen Stadt nicht alles so ist, wie es scheint ...

Come si combatte e come si muore nella Grande Guerra? Artiglierie micidiali, mitragliatrici sterminatrici, bombardamenti aerei futuribili; ma anche trincee di fango, doline allagate, il secco terreno carsico appena scalfito. Ogni battaglia ha significato per decine di milioni di europei essere esposti al rischio di morire in modi opposti, ora modernissimi ora arcaici; colpiti da lontano e dall'alto da granate e bombe devastanti o in attacchi corpo a corpo, alla baionetta, al pugnale, con mazze quasi medievali.

One hundred-fifty years after the last war, humanity has united in exploring space with colonies on Mars and the moon Luna. But the Europa Mission has just failed and 152 people died in space. Nobody knows why. When military bioscientist Capt. Warren’s hidden research installation gets attacked, he joins forces with armored assault Sgt. Von Radach. They become entangled in a deadly fight to stop the theft of classified military secrets by a villain, whose devious plans to use enemy cyborgs posing as humans have every chance of succeeding.

Sure, men fight for their beliefs, their country, and their ways of life. And often times the battles are hard fought and devastating. But more often than not, the outcome is decided by who has the better gear.