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Ghost Fleet Free FREE GHOST FLEET PDF P. W. Singer,August Cole | 416 pages | 01 Jul 2016 | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN | 9780544705050 | English | Boston, United States 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, China, and Russia 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 railgun. 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 Hawaii with hypersonic rounds. Space and cyber get a lot of detail as well, Ghost Fleet the first real crippling blow is a Chinese space station 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. Ghost Fleet Book – A Novel of the Next World War 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; Silicon Valley 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.
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