Sean McFate
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"The author of Shadow War, a veteran with deep experience--as an 82nd Airborne paratrooper, private contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University--delivers a highly provocative, even controversial, exploration of modern warfare and what we must do to win in the futureWar is timeless. Some things change--weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives--but the propensity for humans to do battle does not. Today, more...
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"En route to the National Prayer Breakfast, the U.S. vice president's motorcade is hit in a vicious, expertly planned attack that throws Washington, D.C. into chaos. Everyone assumes it's ISIS--everyone but young FBI agent Jennifer Lin. She is certain that Russia is behind the strike. Half a world away, military contractor Tom Locke has his own doubts about what happened--and who did it. He suspects his former employer, Apollo Outcomes, might be involved....
3) Shadow war
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Elite American mercenary Tom Locke navigates perilous obstacles and deadly enemies throughout a secret mission to save a businessman's family in Eastern Europe.
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In armed conflicts large parts of both the logistics and the actual combatants have been outsourced to private companies who want to maximize profit. As a result, cheap labour is hired from the poorest parts of the world. The gravest example of which is the employment of former child soldiers. The US Department of Defence have engaged in an almost $300 million deal with the private military company Aegis to execute operations in Iraq and Afghanistan....