ABSOLUTE RESOLVE: Venezuela, Presidential Capture, and the Unraveling of International Order

A rigorously argued and deeply unsettling account of the 148-minute operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026 — and permanently changed the grammar of war.How did five intelligence and warfare systems fuse into a single operational template that bypassed every institutional safeguard? Why did 5,000 Fort Tiuna troops mount no coordinated defense? How did the Trump administration's "law enforcement" framing neutralize the War Powers Resolution — and what are Russia, China, and Iran now building in response?Blending military doctrine, international law, psychology, and geopolitical analysis, Olabode Opeseitan writes with precision, restraint, and moral clarity across twelve fully documented chapters.Absolute Resolve: Venezuela, Presidential Capture, and the Unraveling of International Order examines the covert architecture of Operation Absolute Resolve — the cyber-kinetic decapitation strike that stunned the world and exposed the fragility of sovereignty in the twenty-first century. Drawing on open-source military reporting, legal analysis, and historical precedent, Opeseitan reconstructs the operation phase by phase and asks the harder question: what happens to international order when the hegemon exempts itself from the rules it enforces? It also traces the proliferation imperatives now accelerating among peer adversaries — and what authoritarian collapse and allies decoupling mean for global security in a post-Caracas world.Supported by over 1,050 endnotes, 13 chapter epigraphs drawn from primary sources, a selected bibliography, and documentary appendices. Volume I of a multi-volume series. For readers of Bob Woodward, Lawrence Wright, and Fareed Zakaria. Read more