The chapter headings are listed below to present the book structure clearly, which mirrors its thesis, namely that a world war is still possible brought about by a theoretically likely crisis whereupon a dictator will arise with a consequent world war, which may terminate the world, though we can avoid this future. 2 The World War 3 Problem 3 The Crisis Route 4 Systemic Crisis Causer: Communistish Russia is Metastable 5 Nationalistic Crisis Causer: Challenger Russia 6 Antagonistic Crisis P...

This book presents an analysis of changeovers of political systems based on a new theory, nation politysm, which is restated mathematically. This theory asserts that similar geopolitical situations have constantly reoccured. Consequently it asserts that the geopolitical situation today concerning Russia is similar to these earlier ones that have occurred several times in history. Each time before this has resulted eventually in confrontation and ultimately war so likewise this might be the...

Forty public, relevant, undisputed facts from the official Russian MAK Report show that the Smolensk Air Crash on the 10th April 2010 was not caused by pilot error under Presidential pressure in trying to land in thick fog. Instead the plane was on course at 100m heading on the runway axis when 2 bombs took of its left wingtip, whereupon it slewed to the left and banked slightly to emergency touch down at the furrows, but then a thermo-baric bomb exploded murdering all on board. So the pla...

Biological terrorists may appear and threaten to release virus vials because of the world's disastrous medieval lockdown in Covid-19 has made it potentially vulnerable to terrorist demands. Bioterrorists could use a genetically engineered virus, termed Covid-20. Failed negotiations would to lead their releasing virus deathdrones to effect a new pandemic which the world will find difficult to cope with because it will be as unprepared as with Covid-19. Some future information operations wil...

If Russia wins the Russian-Ukrainian War, then she will be able to recover the rest of USSR and do so, then try to recover her Soviet Empire, which will lead to a theatre nuclear war in Poland, devastating it, followed by a thermonuclear exchange. Sanctions and imprecations by the West will not prevent this sequence from occurring. Instead in order to stop this, the West should intervene conventionally militarily in Ukraine; however as the West is reluctant to act, Poland should do so as i...

The book briefly presents the underlying nation polityst political science theory in Chapter 2 and the consequent prediction of Russia's probable future in Chapter 3. This is the background for the military analysis. Chapter 4 then reviews Russia's military capabilities compared to others in the world. This shows her geomilitary capabilities. The war in itself is now analysed and predictions made. This is the heart of the book, Chapters 5 to 9. These state that contrary to previous and cur...

Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human DivisionHumans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. I...

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported "from the country of the we...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a wooden plough, and left it with a nuclear missile shield’. And no-one else, some claime...

The editor of Hitler Triumphant combines history and fiction to craft an alternative history of the Normandy landings on D-Day.It is June, 1944. The Allied armies are poised for the full-scale invasion of Fortress Europe. Across the Channel, the vaunted Wehrmacht lies waiting for the signs of invasion, ready for the final battle . . .What happens next is well-known to any student of modern history. The outcome could easily have been very different, a...

Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next?Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very heart of our daily lives.Professor Mark Galeotti uncovers the man behind the myth, addressing the key misperceptions ...

The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcome of such a collapse remains a matter of speculation and public debate. The US is desperately seeking to preserve the status quo, which rests primarily upon recognition of its military supremacy. For millennia, warfare has been a driving force behind changes in the geopolitical status of power configurations (whether of peoples, states or empire...