Invasion (Harry novel), the Glossary
Invasion is a 2000 novel by American author Eric L. Harry, detailing an invasion of the United States by China.[1]
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33 relations: Aircraft carrier, Arsenal ship, Asia, Automation, Caribbean, Central America, China, Conscription in the United States, East Coast of the United States, English language, Eric L. Harry, Eurasia, European Union, Gulf of Mexico, Hodder & Stoughton, Invasion literature, Japan, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jove Books, Map Room (White House), Mediterranean Sea, Monroe Doctrine, Mutual assured destruction, Nuclear weapon, Ruse de guerre, Social Security (United States), Superpower, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States National Security Council, War economy, West Coast of the United States, White House.
- Invasion literature
- Jove Books books
- Novels by Eric L. Harry
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Arsenal ship
An arsenal ship is a concept for a floating missile platform intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays for large-sized missiles, most likely cruise missiles.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Conscription in the United States
In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Eric L. Harry
Eric L. Harry (born December 2, 1958) is an American author and lawyer, best known for his novels Arc Light and Invasion.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.
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Invasion literature
Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918).
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, which advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.
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Jove Books
Jove Books, formerly known as Pyramid Books, is an American paperback and eBook publishing imprint, founded as an independent paperback house in 1949 by Almat Magazine Publishers (also known as Almat Publishing Corporation) (Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner).
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Map Room (White House)
The Map Room is a room on the ground floor of the White House, the official home of the president of the United States.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
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Mutual assured destruction
Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Ruse de guerre
The French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war, is a non-uniform term; generally what is understood by "ruse of war" can be separated into two groups.
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In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA).
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Superpower
Superpower describes a sovereign state or supranational union that holds a dominant position characterized by the ability to exert influence and project power on a global scale.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States National Security Council
The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security, military, and foreign policy matters.
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War economy
A war economy or wartime economy is the set of contingencies undertaken by a modern state to mobilize its economy for war production.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
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See also
Invasion literature
- Aetheric Mechanics
- Anno Dracula
- Before Armageddon
- Danger! (short story)
- Dracula
- Dracula the Undead (novel)
- Invasion (Harry novel)
- Invasion literature
- Not This August
- Rule Britannia (novel)
- The Angel of the Revolution
- The Back Door (fiction)
- The Battle of Dorking
- The Beetle (novel)
- The Camp of the Saints
- The Dead of Night (novel)
- The Death Guard
- The Fall of a Nation (novel)
- The Great War in England in 1897
- The Invasion of 1910
- The Land Leviathan: A New Scientific Romance
- The Moon Maid
- The Other Side of Here
- The Red Napoleon
- The Riddle of the Sands
- The Swoop!
- The Third Day, the Frost
- The War of the Worlds
- The World Set Free
Jove Books books
- Invasion (Harry novel)
- Involution Ocean
- Micah (novel)
- The Book of True Desires
- The Divide (novel)
- The Funhouse (novel)
- The Gray Man (novel)
- The Mask (Koontz novel)
- The Mind Game
Novels by Eric L. Harry
- Arc Light (novel)
- Invasion (Harry novel)