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The story of ghost fleet is set about 30 years in the future and pretty simple. Singer and august cole and thought i might share my thoughts with you. I kept seeing stories about cyber warfare and hacking, weaponized space stations, unmanned aircraft, robots, railguns, experimental shipsall reminding me of the role they are destined to play in the. In ghost fleet americas reliance on technology makes the country so vulnerable to attack that it must draw. This is your ghost fleet moment posted on november 04,2019. A novel of the next world war from the worlds largest community of readers. Sep 01, 2015 yet this work creates a pessimistic twist to clancys upbeat vision.
The rusting remains of the largest assembled wwii fleet on the west coast. It contains much of the same storytelling as a work by someone like tom clancy, but with an intensity, depth of knowledge, and vision infrequently found in those books. I suggest you read ghost fleet to find the answers. A novel of the next world war, nightly news headlines started to sound a little bit scarier. Singer and august cole sit down with usa today enterprise editor ray locker to. A novel of the next world war, two defense analysts pen a page turner about the near future. Ghost fleet a novel of the next world war also available in format docx and mobi.
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Singer and august cole will be released in australia on 3 august through canelo publishers. Heard a lot of buzz about this book from plenty of sources, many claiming it to be the red storm rising of the 21st century. Arguing for ones ideas regarding tomorrows warfare through narrative fiction is a timehonored tactic among defense futurists. The book is written in a manner reminiscent of tom clancy and w.
The united states, china and russia eye each other across a 21stcentury version of the cold war, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space and in cyberspace. Ghost fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the worlds insatiable appetite. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. One of the characters in the book is a murderer who conceals herself within the chaos of battlea character inspired by the. The ships extend 14 square miles making it the largest ship graveyard in the western hemisphere. Ghost fleet reveals the terrifying future of warfare. In this case, its china and the us in the pacific, with cyberwar, spacewar, and drones against good old fashioned american military professionalism. Ghost fleet offers realistic look at an imagined war. The books title, ghost fleet, comes from an expression used in the u.
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