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Ghost Fleet Pdf, Epub, Ebook GHOST FLEET PDF, EPUB, EBOOK P. W. Singer, August Cole | 416 pages | 01 Jul 2016 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780544705050 | English | Boston, United States Ghost Fleet Overlord Test Vessels Continue to Accelerate U.S. Navy's USV programs - Naval News Watch Learn Take Action. Find out more about where you can see the film and how you can help end slavery in the fishing industry. There was a problem with your submission. Human traffickers have seized upon the labor shortage, selling people from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos and across Southeast Asia for a few hundred dollars each. Given that this is a collaborative work, please tell us about the writing and research process. How did your differences in background and experience compliment each other? Singer : It was a lot like one of the key technologies in the book, 3-D printing. We started with an idea, turned it into a design, then one would build it out and add content. Then the other would take the draft and layer on more content but also shave and change some of the design. Then back and forth, back and forth, adding, changing, and cutting, until this really complex structure was built. I think my background in big trend spotting, whether it be in tech or politics, was an aid. But it could also serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy; how much of an influence could the scifi portrayed in this book have on the real world? One of the amazing experiences with the book so far is how far it is resonating. Indeed, today I spent almost three hours with a group of U. Air Force officers at the Pentagon. Our hope, however, is different than the typical nexus between science fiction and the real world. That is, the best outcome of the book is that it helps keep its story of a future world war from ever happening. The story portrays a conventional war between the United States and China. Given that we live in the atomic era, how plausible is it that the next big conflagration can avoid the use of nuclear weapons and assume the mode of a conflict reminiscent of the Second World War? Both militaries are planning for various contingencies, including a conventional conflict, just as the U. It is not just that leaders may not choose to go down the nuclear pathway, but, as we explore in the book, the cross with cyberwarfare raises new wrinkles for nuclear options, too. If you want to do a realistic look at great power conflict, you have to place it between great powers. So bottom line, the once unthinkable is very thinkable. Tell us about some of the more fascinating and futuristic technologies portrayed in the book. We gathered everything from DARPA contracts to visited consumer trade shows to documented Chinese military lab research. So the tech in the book includes the next generation of military gear, such as details on various future types of weapons like electromagnetic rail guns to warships like the Zumwalt, which a Navy Admiral joked would be the ship Batman would choose for himself to now not-so secret Chinese stealth drones. It includes civilian tech like electronic ink tattoos to the future of VR and the smart rings that might soon replace your mouse and touchscreen. To tech that both the military and civilian world will be using that might range from where Google Glass eventually ends up to brain machine interfaces which has been used in everything from medicine to gaming, but will have a far different role in war. A theme that runs through the novel is the use of older, legacy technologies and systems. A lot of what you guys talk about pertains to futuristic technologies, but all wars feature old-timey stuff as well. The next world war, like the last ones, will see all sorts of new technology that was recently science fiction make its debut. Back then it was things like the tank or atomic bomb, both of which H. Wells played with. But the story of tech in war is also evolutionary, a survival of the fittest, the best of last wars also stays in. So, there is also likely to be a role for IEDs, which was insight we gained from sessions with military experts. Or, another of our storylines follows a killer as they navigate their way through a city policed by all the latest high tech surveillance tools, from drones to DNA tracing. And yet they still figure out to how elude detection and kill in low tech manners. Which of these technologies are poised to be the most disruptive? Take robotics for example. There is a scene in the book that looks at what a next generation dogfight might look like. For it we sought the guidance of U. Navy and Air Force fighter pilots. Or will the ideal cyber warrior be someone at the NSA or a teenaged Chinese university student or a Silicon Valley geek or an Anonymous mask. Thus, what makes it human is what also makes it inhumane. And, like everything else in the book, that scene may read like science fiction, but the technology used in it is all drawn from the real world. Those two words form the foundation of the best fiction, when writers explore the dark corners of imagination and peer deep into the recesses of our greatest fears. No two words convey more brilliantly haunting images. From H. What if? But, unlike Clancy, there is no spoiler alert! Heroes fight and die, machines rise and fail, and America finds herself at her most vulnerable in centuries. No two more unlikely writers have leaped to the top of the genre, yet they sit atop a veritable mountain of techno-thrillists. How did they get there? What was there inspiration? Why write a book? AC: A novel is one of the best ways to explore at the big ideas, complexities and grey areas that are overlooked. There was a lot more than books in those boxes for me. There are also certain truths that can be told via fiction. Finally, you might be surprised, but a novel is more likely to be read than a typical thinktank product, not just by people on the way to the beach, but even by senior leaders. AC: I had a steady diet of science fiction and thrillers as a kid. Who wrote which parts of the book? It worked great for us, and we will do it again. The best way we can describe it is like 3-D printing. What did we do to you? AC: The big challenge for this book was how much we did not get to show of our world. With a book like this you only get so many pages. PWS: There was a story line about a plucky Army officer, who secretly has a cartoon, but the editor chopped it for being unrealistic. Some of the insights for this for example came from discussions with Army officers recently back from tours in the sandbox. What made you focus on future tech gone wrong? Doing so helps you work through problems before they happen. There was traditionally a lot of enthusiasm in defense circles for spending more and adding complexity to systems, even in the name of saving money, because we felt as a nation we could buy technological dominance. No longer. We might be better off with a cheaper and simpler approach that is more in line with commercial world development models or flat-out improv engineering pushed down to the user and operator level. PWS: The problem may not be how much we are or not spending, but what we are we spending it on. Is the age of manned flight coming to an end? The future is the mix of manned and unmanned and also a wider range of uses and users. What drew your focus to those two systems? The Pentagon has placed big bets on them too, financially and operationally. In a sense, the book can be seen like a red team exercise. They also help contrast with the wartime innovative approaches we highlight toward equipping and fielding that are nothing like our normal peacetime weapons buying process. You buy one thing, fight with another. What do you think a true fifth-generation airframe would look like? I think about what I would want it to do first with a big task like that and that is to really understand the role of the fighter in our operations during the next 10—15 years. This touches on the role that design theory can have in the defense arena and I see a lot of possibility there. That might lead to optionally manned aircraft as a viable idea, though the economics of that approach seem daunting. PWS: It might have a gun that works? How do you envision a future naval force? AC: The aircraft carrier will endure, quite literally given the service life of our current ships in development, but we may see the mission set they own fulfilled by variations on what we see as a carrier. Could you have an autonomous ship operating a swarm-like air wing? The Navy is not going to evolve away from it anytime soon. Think of the B as a parallel, how a plane designed for strategic nuclear bombing is now doing close air support because of GPS. Do you think war with China is likely? Does China really want to fight us? AC: This book is about destiny. For our characters, and our country, and with China.
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