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| Eye Of The Destroyer A Jack Kilbourne AdventurePosted on August 2, 2010.  Through a twist of fate, family man Jack Kilbourne Finds That The Only Way to Ensure His family's safety Is To Become human bait for a killer desperate for one last game of one-upmanship as he Towards Global Push the world devastation. International crime boss Anton "Anarch" Vladica heads a dysfunctional crime family: An assassin girlfriend looking for more power and more Commitment criminal organization in history against Anton's right hand man Who Will Do Anything to Prevent from happening.Anton That just wants a break. He wants to reach out to HIM When Someone Knew That, He Can Someone to brag, Especially Now That he has hijacked control of a top-secret Weapons Platform That Cdn literally destroy the Planet. A team of CIA operatives hit select and Navy SEALs has-been tasked With Anarch Eliminating and Recovering control of The Weapon system at all costs. . . Including Jack's life. Dan Hardy has Known Many People In The police, military, and intelligence professionals and has tied Some of Their War Stories Into this tale.He Comes from a long line of law enforcement officers.He Survived multiple contracts by drug lords are family history, and WAS TrainEd in officer survival, and That Was Before He hit high school. CommentsDeloras Nghe says... Seems history in Afghanistan tends to repeat itself from time to time.First Alexander the Great tried to subdue the proud Iranian and Scythian warriors in a bloody and inconclusive campaign and had to settle for a compromise solution before getting out of the place to start his conquest of India, after many centuries of bloody wars and conquest by the most fearsome eastern empires including the Persians, the Mongols, the Mughals, the Turks and the Sihks then came the British Empire who lost an army and later after a bloody war had to settle for less than victory in a compromise solution before abandoning the land, then came the Soviets with overwhelming force fighting hard without regards for human rights and depopulating the country to deny a base of operations to the Mujahadeen warriors, they also had to leave without obtaining a complete victory and now the American and Nato armies are inbroiled in the same kind of hit and run warfare and without obtaining a conclusive victory.Seems the great powers are always able to take the country, the major cities and the valleys but they can never subdue the mountain tribes.The Pashtuns are the hardiest of these tribes and are located not only in Afghanistan but also in Pakistan, these fierce warriors have embrased the Taliban cause and seems they will endure and when the last NATO soldier leaves they will rise again to take the country, they have time on their side, while the Western powers are always pressed for a fast and easy victory and are quick to retire when negative public opinion starts to hurt the present regimes the Pashtuns will endure. After reading this very interesting history I don't see a clear victory for the west in Afghanistan, there will not be a winning of hearts and minds, for the West to obtain a victory there will be very unlikely as the US and NATO will have to resort to practices that are abhorrent in their societies such as genocide (as the Soviets did) and erradication of Pashtun tribal ways and customs that goes against the inclusion and diversity practices defended by the West.The situaction is almost a catch 22 you need to rebuilt the country in order to provide jobs and order but in order to do that you first have to erradicate violence which entails a victory against the Taliban.Is depressing to see that Western good intentions will come to nothing and someday a new generation of even more intollerant and violent breed of Pashtun Talibans will again hold Afghanistan in its clutches.Some lands were born to suffer. Posted on August 2, 2010 Delinda Deuel says... I thoroughly enjoyed this book.there's a little bit of everything in it and it is a really fun read.The characters develop throughout the book and by the end you feel like you know them.I'm really looking forward to Volume 2. Posted on August 4, 2010 Jae Rhome says... I highly recommend this book to the general reader--it's written in very readable and enjoyable prose, and covers a lot of territory without bogging down in too much detail.For me, the most enjoyable parts were reading the early chapter on Alexander the Great's foray into what is now called Afghanistan, as well as the British disasters in the 19th century.The book's only weak point is at the very end--it was published in 2002 and doesn't--in my view--cover in sufficient detail the events of post-9/11 Afghanistan while bringing in extraneous information about events in "the war on terror" elsewhere around the globe. Posted on August 5, 2010 Elisha Valenzano says... What a great tale of espionage and conspiracy!I couldn't put it down... :) The author is also easily accessible via Twitter and Facebook. @WriterDanHardy - You Rock! Bring on Volume 2 Posted on August 5, 2010 Lavonda Reger says... I enjoyed this thriller.It starts in a way I can totally relate to, then builds up with round the world events, but I followed the main character in the twists and turns of this great story.Lots of excitement throughout the book. definitiely should be on the buy list of every thriller reader. Posted on August 6, 2010 Nia Steines says... Stephen Tanner's book "Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban," is a brilliant and exciting piece of work that will serve Western readers well. Tanner's work covers the regional peoples and ancient tribes who have made indelible contributions to modern Afghan society to the first years of U.S. intervention in the "War on Terror." The early chapters of the book are an interesting brief on Afghan history condensed. Featuring an exhaustive list of regions, tribes, villains and personalities that would otherwise require too much additional background to cover in-depth, Tanner fittingly navigates early history to focus on primary events in Afghan history and the overall Afghan experience, if there ever was such a thing. Tanner's modern-day material draws on British, or at least mostly Occidental sources, and covers the British and Russian experience in Afghanistan noticeably more in-depth. The connections Tanner makes between Afghanistan and Switzerland are brilliant and set the stage for his conclusion. Given the subsequent events since the book's publication, it would not be difficult to fill in any holes with supplemental material from various sources, if not Tanner's newer material, regarding the American-Afghan experience since. Obviously the accuracy of Tanner's analysis will remain to be seen within the context and perhaps only at the conclusion of the "War on Terror." Afghanistan itself, exists as a profound storehouse and contributor to world culture. The future of the world's destiny is no less shaped by this region once bisecting East and West; now bisecting past and present, than it has been throughout time. Overall, "Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban" is an exceptional look at a subject too many Americans can claim ignorance, if only by virtue of geography. Perhaps best of all, it is written with hope, rather than writing off the long suffering Afghan people, be it through Imperialism, radical Islam or perhaps most unfortunately, benign neglect. REVIEW EVERY BOOK YOU READ, READER OPINIONS ARE WELL SERVED BY THE PHENOMENON OF THE INTERNET! Posted on August 6, 2010 Doreatha Zwiefel says... For starters this book prematurely declares that the Taliban has fallen.Even now in 2007 the US is dealing with the Taliban.Second this book describes various battles and wars, but doesn't give any context.There are very few maps and he gives no context to where places are and how far apart they are.I was very disappointed with this book. Posted on August 7, 2010 April Fukuda says... Eye of the Destroyer is a great read and keeps you guessing. This story weaves current events, science fiction, battles, and a mix of espionage that takes you deep into an exciting adventure of wit, skill, cunning, revenge, with parallel plots noticeable in real life. If you like the movie series 24, you'll love this book. I am looking forward to Volume 2. Posted on August 7, 2010 Leta Kolin says... This is an excellent work and is a must read for any serious student of Military Studies. Although some would point to his errors of spelling certain place names, this point was covered in the "Preface" to his work as the Author acknowledged the differences in opinion on correct spelling. This book is highly readable history, comprehensive in its coverage and fair-minded in the way it is conveyed. As a side bar, be sure to have a very good geographical map or maps of the area of Central Asia before you begin. A must read Dr. Terry Tucker Combined Security Transition Command-Afganistan Posted on August 7, 2010 Brad Livernois says... Tanner has written a exceedingly mistake-ridden book, his analysis is almost always bogged down in ever repeated stereotypes about Afghans and their history, and, to top it off, it (his analysis) almost always has little of substance. For the most part, he pays no in depth attention to new work in some of the fields he is traversing. And a list of his factual mistakes and inaccurate or outdated assumptions would be too long to write. But a few prominent mistakes and lacunae should be noted. On pg 8 he notes that in our time the term Afghan applies to all the ethnic groups of Afghanistan, such as Pashtuns and the various Turkic ethnic groups. He says that Tajiks are a Turkic group, a very basic error. Tajiks are technically grouped with the Pashtuns as a Indo-Iranian (in the sense used in linguistics and such) ethnic-linguistic group, and this is what makes them unique in the Turkic dominated Transoxiana, for they are remnants of Central Asia's former Indo-Iranian past, and the remnants of Persian culture. On pg 75 he states "In 632 the Prophet Mohammed (sic) ascended to heaven from Jerusalem, leaving behind a fanatical army of horseman to spread his message.", but there are two problems with this, namely, one, that Muslim belief states that Muhammad ascended to heaven from Jerusalem in the early part of the middle of his career, while he was still at Mecca, not after he died. Secondly, Muhammad did not leave a fanatical army at his death. The Islamic Arab army had to be created by the first four Caliphs, and they did not intend to spread Islam. The early Islamic conquests had little to do with Islam and a lot to do with conquest. They simply were not interested in converts, their attitude was quite tolerant towards other monotheistic faiths (churches serving as mosques on Friday's), there is no archeological evidence of great destruction of cities, and archeological evidence for the widespread growing of wine and the eating of pork long after the conquests were complete are enough to refute the notion that Islam spread quickly, and that it was spread by the sword. And anyway, Islam was an extremely porous entity in those early days, with no real consensus on ritual or theology. Also, "fireenga" literally means "without color", not foreigner. Mohammad Zia Ul Haq was a Punjabi, not a Pashtun. The Taliban is still alive and well. And Pashtunistan (or as they say in Pakistan, Puktunkhaw) is a issue that has lost its momentum, and few Pashtuns on the Pakistani side (or for that matter, the Afghan side) of the border would support a independent state for Pashtuns. Mistakes like these, and ignorance of contemporary scholarship isnormal for this book. This work is best suited for someone with no knowledge of Afghanistan, and someone who is willing to search for better sources later. Posted on August 11, 2010 Leave a Comment |
