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Battle is brutal.  Colonel Wes Stauer gets it.  He should to.  He was when one of war’s most brutal professionals – not to say one of its most efficient and least bloody.  Brutal yes; silly no.  Today, not only must Stauer control his break ensemble of former friends and accomplish still another wonder objective, he must also utilize and direct the brute within himself – an animal he'll require to be able to ruin an intelligent adversary who's as implacable as Stauer himself. Ok, nearly as implacable. There will be war.  And there will be players like Wes Stauer who've the know-how and, once put in place, the easy professional push, to determine the criminals for their plots and ruin every last earthly bit of their unpleasant legacies.About Tom Kratman’s military thrillers and military science-fiction:“Kratmanis dystopia is just a quick page-turner saturated in surprising twists…[Kratman is] a professional military man…up to pace on military and geo-political conceits.” –Best-selling writer of America Alone Mark Steyn on Tom Kratman’s uncompromising military SF thriller, Califate“Kratman raises disquieting questions on what it could try get the battle On powerful characterizations, terror…realistic motion sequences and ideas on the viewpoint of war.” – Publishers Weekly