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Reacher and Holly finally arrive at their destination: a mountain community that's home to a radical militia wishing to secede from the United States. Holly, intended by leader Beau Borken to be used as leverage to make her father agree to his demands, is placed in an upstairs room of an abandoned county courthouse, whose walls are supposedly ...
DMZ is an American comic book series written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli.The series is set in the near future, where a Second American Civil War has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone (DMZ), caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist Free States of America.
The series incorporates real events, such as the massacre depicted in the pilot, along with the stories of actual people who lived during the 1857 Utah War. Real-life characters such as Jim Bridger , a pioneer caught between warring factions; Brigham Young , the leader of the LDS Church who commanded his army known as the Nauvoo Legion; and ...
A MechWarrior series novel - Set on a snowy backwater planet where raiders have discovered that a cache of Clan second line mechs remains hidden. The nearly non-existent militia must not only find it first, but then figure out of a way to get the raiders off their planet. Roar of Honor: Blaine Lee Pardoe: c.3062
The book details the rise of Blackwater USA, a private military company, and the growth of security contracting in the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism.In the book, Scahill contends that Blackwater exists as a mercenary force, and argues that Blackwater's rise is a consequence of the demobilization of the US military following the Cold War and its overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Liberation Trilogy is a series of military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. The first volume, An Army at Dawn, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History [1] and was a New York Times best seller. [2]
Worth Dying For is the fifteenth book in the Jack Reacher series of thrillers written by Lee Child. It was published on 30 September 2010 in the United Kingdom [ 1 ] and was published on 19 October 2010 in the USA. [ 2 ]
A 1999 US Department of Justice analysis of the potential militia threat at the millennium conceded that the vast majority of militias were reactive (not proactive) and posed no threat. [15] By 2001, the militia movement seemed to be in decline, having peaked in 1996 with 858 groups. [ 16 ]