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Ghost Fleet
A Novel of the Next World War
Book • 2015
In this 2015 techno-thriller, P.W.
Singer and August Cole explore a future war scenario where a post-communist China, aided by Russia, attacks the United States in the Pacific, leading to the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
The novel highlights the reactivation of the US Navy's antiquated 'Ghost Fleet' and the rise of an insurgency by US military personnel and civilians against the Chinese occupiers.
The story incorporates various advanced technologies such as electromagnetic railguns, swarm UAVs, and space-based weaponry, and includes over 400 endnotes to support its technological and geopolitical themes.
Singer and August Cole explore a future war scenario where a post-communist China, aided by Russia, attacks the United States in the Pacific, leading to the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
The novel highlights the reactivation of the US Navy's antiquated 'Ghost Fleet' and the rise of an insurgency by US military personnel and civilians against the Chinese occupiers.
The story incorporates various advanced technologies such as electromagnetic railguns, swarm UAVs, and space-based weaponry, and includes over 400 endnotes to support its technological and geopolitical themes.
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as a fiction book that started with a war between Russia, China and the United States.

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as a science fiction novel about a potential future war between the US and China, illustrating future weapon systems.

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in the context of a potential scenario of Russo-Chinese collaboration against the US.


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as something military peers read to conceptualize cyber in the modern battlefield.


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as books co-authored by ![undefined]()

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as an award-winning author publishing many books on the future of war.

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