The Fall of Babylon

In 2015, there is no power on Earth capable of matching the stronghold of freedom and democracy—the United States of America. An American soldier can be seen on every continent except, perhaps, Antarctica. And even if a recent special operation in Russia ended in a catastrophic failure, and even if in Afghanistan, it seems, even the mountains are fighting the “G.I.s,” and even if the streets of familiar Texas and California cities are increasingly turning into a battlefield— the United States still remains the only global superpower. And recently, even those nasty Iranian Islamist militants had to find out firsthand just what the power of the American army is like. Only the strategists in Washington forgot that a cornered mouse sometimes throws itself at a cat. And in the thermonuclear era even a suicidal attack can have decent odds of success…