Mike Maden, Ph.D.

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Historian & Author — field_542d8190101fc

Mike Maden grew up working in the canneries, feed mills and slaughterhouses of California’s San Joaquin Valley. A lifelong fascination with history and warfare ultimately led to a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Davis with a focus on conflict and technology in international relations. Like millions of others, he first became a Tom Clancy fan after reading The Hunt for Red October, and began his published fiction career in the same techno-thriller genre, starting with Drone and the sequels, Blue Warrior, Drone Command and Drone Threat. After spending over a decade in Dallas, Maden now lives in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee.

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Author Mike Maden "...knows the ins-and-outs of an action story and can certainly take readers to the edge of their seats when it comes to thrills."...

Featured on: Tuesday, June 12, 2018

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October 27, 2026

Kerby Anderson

AI Fears

Roger Kimball begins his column in The Spectator about artificial intelligence with this admission. “It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative.” As you might imagine, the...

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Rubio in Athens

Earlier this month Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an important speech in Athens with the acropolis in the background. The Wall Street Journal editors described it as the speech of the year....

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Texas Shariah Push

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