Ghost Fleet by P.W. Singer Summary
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Ghost Fleet depicts a terrifyingly plausible World War III where China occupies Hawaii through cyber warfare and drones. Recommended throughout the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, this techno-thriller earned praise from Game of Thrones co-creator D.B. Weiss for its chilling real-world technologies.
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The Next World War: When Technology Becomes Our Greatest Vulnerability
Imagine a world where America's military superiority vanishes overnight. Chinese-planted microchips, some barely larger than sand grains, activate inside critical defense systems. Satellites go blind. Communications collapse. Nuclear submarines, once invisible beneath the waves, are suddenly tracked from space through their reactor radiation. Within hours, Hawaii falls under enemy occupation. This isn't just fiction - it's a meticulously researched scenario that has Pentagon officials losing sleep. "Ghost Fleet" presents a chillingly plausible vision of World War III that begins not with a bang, but with a whisper - an American astronaut abandoned to die in orbit as his Russian crewmates seal the airlock, their apologetic faces the last human contact he'll ever have. This quiet betrayal marks the opening move in warfare's next evolution, where the most technologically advanced nation suddenly finds its greatest strength transformed into its deadliest weakness.
The Perfect Storm: How America's Military Collapses
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The Ghost Fleet: When Old Becomes New Again
The Privatization of War and Autonomous Weapons
Human Judgment in Modern Warfare
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