Soldiers Of End Times

In 2014, the Islamic State shocked the world when it defeated national armies on the battlefield and seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. The group's military success can be traced to four key variables: organizational innovation, shaping operations, will to fight, and a knack for retaining the initiative. The IS military project led not only to the declaration of a "caliphate," but to the proliferation of jihadist franchises that devastated countries, displaced millions, and killed tens of thousands. Yet the group's weaknesses ultimately led to the collapse of its territorial achievement. Expert Ido Levy begins this pioneering study by surveying jihadist warfare from the 1970s to the present. He then incorporates primary sources and interviews with military officers, experts, and journalists to explain how IS used conventional military capabilities to defeat larger, better-equipped state armies and conquer land in Syria, Iraq, Libya, the Philippines, and Nigeria. Anchored by four case studies--Ramadi, Kobane, Mosul, and Baghuz--the volume illuminates potential strategies to prevent a resurgence by IS or similar groups.

"This book provides an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic State in battle"--

We are at war right now. The forces of light and darkness are lined up in battle array as the world moves closer to the end of the age. Using both military and spiritual warfare tactics, this U.S. Army colonel and Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist equip you as a believer to be battle-ready. This training manual will teach you to · be empowered to counter the darkness of approaching end-times forces · develop your spiritual gifts so you can walk in the supernatural power and protection of the Holy Spirit · move into a new level of spiritual warfare based on biblical and military principles · study the Bible more intently as real-time world events and biblical prophecies intersect As the end times draw near, prepare to be fully equipped and trained in the weapons of spiritual warfare. You are gifted by the Holy Spirit--now be empowered, disciplined, and courageous, ready to do battle with the forces of this present darkness in these last days.

In Future War, Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis (USA, Ret.)--whose ongoing work with the Pentagon affords a rare glimpse into our intelligence community's insights--portrays a frightening, new glimpse into a future world that previous generations could only have dared imagine: "cyborgized" super soldiers, cyber threats beyond our wildest imagination, sobering outer space developments, and the most horrendous weapons of mass destruction in the hands of troublesome actors who see themselves playing a role in the prophetic end times.Despite the risks associated with a terminator-like tomorrow clearly defined, Future War turns to offer a glimmer of hope for our troubled and lost world. It provides a detailed plan of action to guide America's churches, governments, and Congress from a biblical-worldview foundation, tackling five of the most daunting macro challenges facing America today.Every concerned American--and especially Christians--must study Future War to understand what is racing toward us, the dangerous threats each of us will face, and how Bible believing Christians must get respond to their obligation of engaging the world (Romans 13:1-7). IN FUTURE WAR, YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT:*IMMINENT TRENDS IN AN OUT-OF-CONTROL WORLD*A BIBLICAL VISION FOR OUR JEOPARDIZED FUTURE*THREATS AND RISKS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER*EXOTIC WEAPONRY IN THE HANDS OF HIGH-TECH TERRORISTS*TRANSHUMANISM AND THE COMING SUPER SOLDIERS*OUTERSPACE WAR--NO LONGER A HOLLYWOOD DREAM*CYBER RISKS THAT COULD BRING THE GRID DOWN*WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THAT JUST GOT SCARIER*A 21ST-CENTURY STRATEGY FOR SURVIVING AND FLOURISHING

God is building the body of Christ to be a powerful spiritual army on the earth to carry out his plans in these end-times. It is an army of believers totally sold out to God with undivided devotion and a determination to serve him with all their hearts. They have counted the cost of following Jesus and know that there is nothing greater in life than to do his will on earth. This is the army God is using to build his kingdom and display his glory on the earth. Each believer is chosen and called by God into this army. Question is how many will say yes to the calling. This book gives practical steps of how you can come into a place of intimate relationship with God to know him and trust him so you can surrender your life to him and step into your calling. Each chapter is a building block to build you up into Christ. You'll learn how to become Christlike in your walk and how to live as a citizen of the kingdom of God. You will grow in your knowledge of the freedom you have in Christ so you can take that freedom to others and see lives transformed by the power of God. God will empower each believer in his army to become a mighty warrior to display his mighty power on the earth. If each believer makes the choice to say yes to God's call and purpose for their lives, this could be the greatest time for the body of Christ, and we'll see the glorious church of the Lord Jesus Christ rising up throughout the earth to demonstrate the power and the glory of our risen Savior.

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States. Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why. The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin argues: When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit. In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. As cliodynamics shows us, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture. That is only one possible end time, and the choice is up to us, but the hour grows late.

For those new to Bible Prophecy or if you already study the topic and would like to learn more, Signs of the End Times: Keys Events To Watch, provides all of the core signs that are listed in various Bible passages. In addition, this work provides categories and subcategories. It is hard to find a complete and accurate source listing the end time signs, which is why this book was written. Those covered are both in the social and geopolitical realm, which teaches the nations that matter and why. This is a first in the Short Book Series intended to instruct on end time Bible Prophecy. This first work in the series focuses on how to correctly identify the signs of the end times.

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According to the Maya Prophecies, the 5,000-year"Fourth Age" will come to it end in 2012. In a remarkable adventure which takes her all over Central South America and involves strange ceremonies at sacred pyramids, scaling an active volcano and chases with drug runners, Patricia Mercier attempts to discover whether 2012 will be the end of the world as know it or the dawning of a new golden age.

It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way. What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.