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North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

Rafe Stoner, a former Navy SEAL, leads a cruel existence as a gun for hire in Afghanistan. After the brutal killing of his fiancée, he vowed a brutal revenge. A revenge that littered the landscape with the bodies of those responsible. Now he learns his work is not over. A wealthy, young Afghan woman holds the key to the identity of the Taliban commander who ordered the murder. Stoner sets out with his ally, Greg Blum, to hunt down the last of the guilty men.

A raid on a drug trafficker's factory uncovers a secret that sends a cold chill through the heart of NATO. An Iranian cleric, captured in the raid, tells of a conspiracy at the heart of Ahmadinejad's Iranian government. A terrorist group, part of the Revolutionary Guard, is on a mission to acquire nuclear warheads. Weapons which will enable them to launch a conflict that would threaten the peace and security of the world, and trigger Armageddon.

New York homicide detective Gabriel de Sade juggles his days between the hunt for maniac killers and the continuing fight against the heavy hand of city bureaucracy. But at least he has the support of his Chief, until they trade his detective skills with the CIA. In return for help to plug a leak in the Ninth Precinct, de Sade is to travel to Italy to recover a lost package. When he refuses to be used as a pawn in their political games, the director of the CIA drops the bombshell. Faith Ward, de Sade’s former lover, travelled to Rome to retrieve the package and disappeared.

Vietnam in 1968 is a hotbed of turmoil and death. Some as a result of the war, others not. Some are planned assassinations yet to happen. A C-130 transport aircraft flying close to the DMZ crashes in deep jungle. The aircraft was carrying a squad of army CID experts on a confidential mission to investigate rumors of a planned assassination of the Saigon president, yet the investigation ended when the crash resulted in the deaths of all aboard.

Six years since the A Shau Valley incident, and the Ky Lan is back. Contact has been lost with a secret military facility on the Vietnamese island of Con Son. The final transmission is just a few broken words. They are being hunted. There have been rumours of this creature for years, with the stories covered up and buried to hide the terrible truth. As the country collapses from within it falls to an elite unit made up of special forces, military specialists, and others to return to the island to rescue any remaining survivors.

Eddie Hawkins, Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner, is good at his work. Some say the best in the business, although he still has plenty of demons to fight. Doubts about his ability still bug him, and things get worse with the arrival of a new platoon lieutenant determined to make his mark. No matter what the cost in men and morale.

Joe Tyler lost everything when his wife and son are killed in a mall shooting. A former SEAL, and contractor for the CIA’s Alpha Squad program in Afghanistan, he has vowed never to go back. That was until 9/11. His older brother is the only family he has left, a successful broker working in the World Trade Centre when it is hit. Tyler has nothing left to live for. Except a burning desire for revenge. With the image of the bearded Saudi psycho who ordered the attack in the forefront of his mind, he returns to Afghanistan.

Abu Habibi left the Afghan National Army to make his fortune. His scheme: to pillage the nation’s museums of valuable artefacts, killing any who stand in his way. The plunder is put on sale to eager overseas buyers. Habibi’s murderous rampage has attracted the scum and villainy of the nation, eager to participate in the robberies for a share of the loot. In a nation where many of the Islamic warlords are little more than cutthroats and butchers, Habibi is known as a coming man.

American aircraft are going down, victim to missile batteries hidden deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, and they bring in an Air Force expert, Colonel Dan Carter, to analyze the defenses and devise a strategy to destroy them. Yet, the Vietcong gets wind of the colonel’s arrival, and plan to murder him. Joe Cooper, Air Cav, returns from an abortive mission to grab an important and high-ranking North Vietnamese. A mission gives MACV an idea to protect their expert.

Jack "Tinlegs" Taylor is a former elite Navy SEAL platoon leader; the best of the best. Recovering from the wounds that ended his career, he returns home to Boston to find a city under siege. A violent Arab businessman is forcing people out of their homes so he can profit from their redevelopment. Payoffs to a local cop mean there is no one to stop the war he has declared on many of the city’s residents.

Browning M2 .50 caliber gunner Eddie Hawkins enjoys his work, and he is good at it. His other passion is first-person shooters. Stationed in Afghanistan, Eddie has a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun, after an initial shaky start. Life is good for Pfc Hawkins, until the night the Taliban arrive at Bagram. Eddie recognized a hostile when he sees one, and he does not hesitate to open fire on a vehicle inside the Bagram perimeter fence. Yet the vehicle escapes, and the Afghan’s stationed at Bagram insist he shot at one of theirs.

Pfc Eddie Hawkins has two passions in life. First-person shooters and his job as a cupola gunner in a Humvee in Afghanistan. His weapon is a Browning .50 calibre, and Eddie has acquired a reputation for his deadly skills with the heavy machine gun. It wasn’t always that way, but after a shaky start, he has learned how to handle the gun like an expert. There is no looking back. But Hawkins is about to face his biggest challenge yet. On patrol near the Afghan city of Ghazni, they run into a strong force of Taliban.

The war is heating up, and they have no time for R&R before the Hueys take off and carry them to their next mission. A Vietcong fortified town in the Mekong Delta, a stronghold heavily defended by troops and heavy weapons. The Cav’s job is to go in, take the town and locate and destroy the enemy. To give the VC a hard, brutal lesson they will never forget.

Comment vit-on la vie d'expatrié en Chine? Et comment vivent les Chinois, comment leurs dirigeants conçoivent leurs décisions, comment réagissent-ils aux événements extérieurs? C'est ce que je raconte dans ce podcast, après 32 ans passés à Pékin comme correspondant de journaux et radios. Je n'ai qu'un seul préjugé : l'envie de vous faire connaître et apprécier cet univers immense en perpétuel mouvement, mais qui reste toujours proche de nous par la chaleur humaine qui en émane, son extraordinaire dynamisme. Si vous voulez vivre un peu de vrai dépaysement, rejoignez moi sur "...

Pastor Eric Meyer and Music Minister Braden Garwood explore the questions that so many people have about faith. We begin with the perspective that God wants us to question and examine faith because an unexamined faith does not breathe life into our lives, communities or the world. Braden and I experience God in our lives through examining the mysteries of faith, while interacting with the Holy Spirit through practicing art and music, and we would love to share those experiences with you.

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up by an intelligence major. As if it couldn’t be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying master sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame Hawkins. Held in contempt by his crew, the next operation offers him a chance to put things right. Except the same master sergeant has command of his platoon.

A battalion-strength ISIS force commanded by a former French Foreign Legionnaire, a convert to Islam, is massed just inside Pakistan. The plan is to enter the country by means of a bridge across a fast-flowing river. Their target: a nearby American base. SEAL Petty Officer Tony Chase and his compact fire team is assigned to blow the bridge and stop them entering Afghanistan.