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The Global War in Ukraine: An Essay on the Changing World Order is not a book about a single front or a single war. It is a forensic examination of how one conflict has become the decisive crucible for a new international order. Ukraine is not a peripheral battlefield; it is “the furnace in which the international order is being reforged,” where alliance choices, industrial bets, and software updates collide with geography, memory, and nuclear shadow.
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Marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, 18TH CENTURY GLOBALIZATION: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY IDEAL COMES TO BRAZIL shows how the American founding did not end at Philadelphia, but launched a wider Atlantic wave of republican experiments that reached deep into the Portuguese empire.
Published in 2026, alongside a global outpouring of new work on 1776 and its legacies, Kenneth Maxwell’s study recovers one of the most surprising of those reverberations: a planned Brazilian republic in Minas Gerais in 1788–1789, directly inspired by a French-language collection of American constitutional documents first assembled as a propaganda tool by Benjamin Franklin.
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Fight Tonight Force: Combat Readiness at the Speed of Relevance plunges readers into the urgent reimagining of military readiness demanded by today’s rapidly changing strategic threat landscape. Accessible and urgent, this book provides a roadmap for democratic nations facing the tyranny of compressed strategic timelines: adapt with speed and resilience across land, sea, air, space, and cyber or risk vulnerability in the face of determined aggression. Fight Tonight Force is essential reading for policymakers, military professionals, and citizens determined to understand and shape the future of national defense
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This book is indispensable reading for military professionals, defense policy makers, airpower enthusiasts, and anyone seeking to understand the revolution under way in combat aviation. “Training for the High-End Fight” is not just a chronicle but a clarion call: the future will be won, not by the hands on the stick, but by the minds in the cockpit and by the nations bold enough to invest in training for tomorrow, today.
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