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"For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu's ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons...

Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, trainers, and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas.

Describes how to listen to your inner protector and increase your sensitivity to threats before they happen.

Internationally acclaimed historian and military expert Gwynne Dyer charts the evolution of human warfare from the hunter-gatherer era up to the present day—including tribal warfare, classical combat, “total war,” cold war, foreign invasions and occupations, terrorism, climate clashes, and superpower rivalries—for anyone seeking to understand why we engage in war, where it could take us, and how to stop.--

Colonel Bill Booly and his troops face a new challenge as a new alien race is given permission to settle in Confederacy space, but the Hudathans are being pursued by bloodthirsty machines out to destroy them, and humankind stands in the way of its mission.