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P. W. Singer,August Cole | 416 pages | 01 Jul 2016 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780544705050 | English | Boston, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P.W. Singer

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Ghost Fleet to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Ghost Fleet by P. Singer Goodreads Author. August Cole Goodreads Author. What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, , and eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic—drone strikes to old warshi What will the next global conflict look like? Ultimately, victory will depend on blending the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. The debut novel by two leading experts on the cutting edge of national security, it is unique in that every trend and technology featured in the novel — no matter how sci-fi it may seem — is real, or could be soon. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please Ghost Fleet up. To ask other readers questions about Ghost Fleetplease sign up. Any other non fuction like this? See 1 question about Ghost Fleet…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 09, Michael Burnam-Fink rated it liked it Shelves: sci-fiwar Ghost Fleet is a kind of modern update to Red Storm Risingwhere a couple of strategic types write up their vision of a future war. In this case, it's China and the US in the Pacific, with cyberwar, spacewar, and drones against good old fashioned American military professionalism. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to its vision, and the Ghost Fleet writing isn't enough to compensate. Let's talk about the tech first, Ghost Fleet that's what Ghost Fleet here for. This book is basically one giant sloppy blow Ghost Fleet is a kind of modern update to Red Storm Risingwhere a couple of strategic types write up their vision of a future war. This book Ghost Fleet basically one giant sloppy blowjob for the Zumwalt-class destroyer Ghost Fleet the Ghost Fleet . I'd estimate a solid third of the book is just talking about the difficulties in getting the railgun operational, Ghost Fleet then marveling when it blows up every military target in with hypersonic rounds. Space and cyber get a lot of detail as well, Ghost Fleet the first real crippling blow is a Chinese using a laser cannon to take out American surveillance and communications satellites. Cyber attacks further jam networks in those first critical hours, and hardware vulnerabilities built into chips turn the F into a beacon for radar guided missiles. The Littoral Combat Ship sucks in combat, and the Chinese develop a hard counter for American strategic power with a ballistic missile that homes Ghost Fleet on Cherenkov radiation from submarine and aircraft carrier nuclear reactors. Soldiers are hopped to the gills on stim pills and some have cybernetic implants. But there's also a lot to dislike in the depictions of the tech in this book. The hacking is just warmed over Gibsonian cyberspace. True, real hacking is dull, but more could've been done with deception in cyberspace, and the difference in effectiveness between having a network and up Ghost Fleet not having one. Same with the drones, which have some nice terrorizing moments with Chinese quadcopter swarms, but don't do anything particularly interesting. In fact, for Ghost Fleet book which is Ghost Fleet to showcase a generational shift in war, it really ducks away from issues in autonomy, swarming, Ghost Fleet chains, and technological-economic warfare, aside from the hacked Chinese supplied microchips. The authors want to give the sense that the book is accurate by throwing up model numbers for missiles and planes, but there's little sense of how it fits together. An ironic failure for a book who's strongest selling point is "a vision of future war. A constant problem in the short choppy chapters are characters reacting with surprise to things we already know as readers. The first chunk of the book is supposed to be "business as normal" to amplify the shock of the Chinese sneak attack, but the very first scene has Russian astronauts murdering the sole American on the ISS for no reason Was he going to call down fleet movements by eye from the observation window? The only really unique character is the serial killer taking out Chinese officers in Hawaii, and the Russian detective stalking her, Ghost Fleet seem like they're lifted from a cheesier universe, but are at least a different point-of-view from the all the military types. The pacing is both staccato and too slow, Ghost Fleet sins for a technothriller. There are a few moments that made me smile as the book embraced the ridiculousness of Ghost Fleet premise: The Hawaiian resistance calling itself the North Shore Mujaheddin as an ironic homage to the foe of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Kenya; an eccentric Australian-British billionaire demanding a letter of marque for space piracy; The FB actually using it's VTOL capabilities in combat. But this book isn't nearly as good as the press suggests. View all 13 comments. Aug 05, Spencer rated it it was ok. The writing is so horrific. I've never read so much old-man cursing or so many "adverbs," he Ghost Fleet somethingly. But the writing isn't the point of this book. It's a showcase of defense technology in an imaginary war. On that front, it's a partial success. It's kind of Ghost Fleet to read about how, for example, a rail gun would be operationally beneficial or how drones could be integrated into air to air combat. However, Clausewitz would roll over in his grave reading this. The imaginary war starts beca The writing is so horrific. Ghost Fleet imaginary war starts because China attacks the United States for Even more puzzling, Russia is allied with China because Ghost Fleet fine for a Ghost Fleet game, but strategic goals shape the force structure and procurement decisions, which is what this book is about in the end. Too many defense analysts divorce strategy from budgets and procurement to their detriment. Sadly, Singer is no different in that respect. View all 4 comments. Aug 24, John Birmingham rated it really liked it. Short review. I loved it. If you enjoyed Ghost Fleet Tom Clancy school of the s and would like to see them redone with modern and future technology, just go buy it. Longer, more considered review. It's lucky Tom Clancy wasn't able to put hyperlinks all the Ghost Fleet through his books. Not in the early years, anyway. This is what they would look like. A military thriller in which every mention of weapons technology is hyperlinked to an explanatory source. But even more than that, there are hundreds of other i Short review. But even more than that, there are hundreds of other Ghost Fleet links which break up the experience of just letting the story carry you along. It's an artefact of the authors' deeper purpose — to spin Ghost Fleet cautionary tale Ghost Fleet policymakers as much as for readers. But seriously, I really didn't need the footnote explaining how Arnold Palmer had been commissioned to design that golf course on which Marine Corps Osprey's were setting down. Just land Ghost Fleet damn aircraft and start blowing things up. I bring this up before even Ghost Fleet to what Ghost Fleet is about because those footnotes are going to piss a lot of people off. I tried to turn them off on my Kobo but couldn't find the appropriate checkbox. Maybe it would be easier on a Kindle or an iPad. That minor aggravation aside I Ghost Fleet to stop noticing them the same way Ghost Fleet train ourselves not to see banner ads online and with all the usual caveats, I really did enjoy this book. It's set in the near future, Ghost Fleet exact date being left vague, but feeling like twenty years out to me. That's long enough to bring a lot of cutting edge technology into the mainstream, but not so far removed from our present concerns as to morph into science fiction. China is ascendant, but the Communist Party has been swept away. The emergent hyperpower is ruled by a nationalist cabal of billionaire tycoons and the military. 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SingerAugust Cole. Ghost Fleet is a page-turning imagining of a war set in the not-too-distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor; fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones; teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds; billionaires mobilize for cyber-war; and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future. But what makes the story even more notable is Ghost Fleet every trend and technology in book—no matter how sci-fi it may seem—is real. This is not just an excellent book, but an excellent book by Ghost Fleet who know what they are talking Ghost Fleet. Prepare to lose some sleep. Marine Corps. Pages : Carton Quantity : Books Best Sellers. Award Winners. New Releases. Coming Soon. Buy Paperback Now. Also available in:. Marine Corps Included in: Feel the Fear. Available Resources Download Ghost Fleet. Want the latest Email Address. Ghost Fleet No I want to receive news, events, offers or promotions related to HMH's and its affiliates' products and services. Sign Up. Thanks for your entry! Download Image. Ghost Fleet—A Novel of the Next World War — Central Intelligence Agency

Singer and August Cole tell the story of a future war between the United States on one side and China and Russia on the other. The authors paint a compelling scenario in which the simmering Cold War turns hot with the opening salvos taking place in outer space and continuing in cyberspace. Malware loaded onto the Ghost Fleet chips of all US military hardware is activated to disable US military communications and weapons systems, giving the Chinese and Russians a decisive advantage. With communications down and most US military Ghost Fleet disabled, Hawaii is quickly occupied after a successful attack on Pearl Harbor. With cutting-edge military technologies and the Ghost Fleet arsenal partly disabled, the US turns to alternative solutions, including leveraging US companies to make replacement parts using 3D technology. The authors weave a variety of political tensions, social changes, emerging technologies, and weapons systems now in various stages of development into the narrative. Among the plot drivers are cyber theft of intellectual property, freedom of navigation tensions in the South China Sea, and even diminishing etiquette in the use of personal electronic devices. In addition to the depiction of the future of warfare, glimpses of the future of intelligence are Ghost Fleet throughout. Despite their obvious focus on technological developments, Singer and Cole still manage to embed the human element. Eyeglasses, jewelry, watches, whatever—all were constantly recording and analyzing. Suck Ghost Fleet all up and let the filters sort it out. One Ghost Fleet the guests even has an Ghost Fleet embedded under her skin. In such a situation where everyone, and even cocktail glasses, are presumably recording conversations, how would a case officer practice her craft? The general embeds a key piece of intelligence that the Americans were going to Ghost Fleet during the upcoming conflict in his observation that Chekov was named after a Russian Nobel Prize winning scientist. The operational meeting must take place under the noses of pervasive surveillance, which includes not only video and audio, but also monitoring of individual vital signs and temperature variations in a denied area during wartime. According to the blurb about the authors in Ghost FleetCole was a defense Ghost Fleet reporter for the Ghost Fleet Street Journal before moving to the Atlantic Council where he is focusing on using fiction to explore future warfare. All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this journal are those of the authors. Nothing in any of the articles should be construed as asserting or implying US government endorsement of their factual statements and interpretations. Articles by non-US government employees are copyrighted. 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