Terry Alan Simmons

The Visionary, The Custodian, and The Russian Siloviki: The Russian Renaissance

The visionary Gorbachev suffered unintended consequences with glasnost, perestroika and the new thinking resulting in the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991. Yeltsin served as a transitional custodian in the experimental democratic period struggling with the potential devolution of the Russian St...

Preamble To War (Women of Earth Book 2)

Preamble to War.After successfully expanding to four other worlds where the Falconan total population was now thirty five Billion Beings. It was on the fifth world that the Falconan society had expanded to where the war all started. It was Secretary of Defense Mobe Oor who received proof another rac...

The Lost Destroyer (Women of Earth Book 1)

During an exploratory expedition Freeric Tufarr, a young commander of the Falconan Federation, with his crew stumbles onto a crashed spaceship. As he examines this heavily armed crashed spaceship an unsettling feeling comes over him. What type of creature built this ship and why are they here?The Fa...

The Visionary, The Custodian, and The Russian Siloviki: The Russian Renaissance by Simmons, Terry (2009) Paperback

Glasnost, Perestroika and The New Thinking: Gorbachev's Reforms

Mikhail Gorbachev's visions of a reformulated Soviet Union encompassing glasnost, perestroika and The New Thinking after the abrupt departure of the ailing Konstantin Chernenko revolutionized Soviet foreign policy and the CPSU as well. Though mentored by the infamous Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev was not...

CIA, Syrian intelligence, and the Russian SVR: Competition For Syria And The Post-Assad Geopolitical Contiguous Space

The Syrian civil war is a direct result of the Arab Spring phenomenon. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is attempting to overthrow the despotic rule of Bashar al-Assad. The Alawite minority rule of the Assad family has been sponsored by the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation. Composed mostly of d...

Allied Galaxies At War (Women of Earth Book Book 3)

Adventures and battles in space as the Falconan society expand to their fifth uninhabited planet Falconan five. However, another race the Andormosi have already made claim to the planet. Only one world will win this battle of two worlds over this planet.