Imagine that it\u2019s the year 2034. China is well ahead of the US in cyber-warfare. It manages to \u201cblind\u201d an American jet and bring it robotically to enemy turf, capturing the pilot. The Chinese then sink a few American warships they think are too close to their shores, and soon send 37 more to the bottom. The American President feels she has to reply strongly and, lacking conventional naval forces under the circumstances, nukes a Chinese city. That country responds with nuclear devastation of San Diego and Galveston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India, which has quietly become a greater military superpower than any outsider had realized, now takes a novel approach to achieve peace: that country sinks a Chinese aircraft carrier, wipes a squadron of American warplanes out of the air, and tells both belligerent parties to knock it off or India will smoke both <\/em>of their countries. An uneasy truce follows and rebuilding begins in the two devastated and humiliated nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a good read because co-author Elliot Ackerman is a skilled and accomplished novelist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a scary <\/em>read because the other co-author, Jim Stavridis, is described as a retired four-star admiral of the United States Navy and former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If someone like Stavridis thinks this scenario is plausible, and he obviously does, anyone should be alarmed. It is probably time to start asking Presidential candidates where they stand on getting the US ahead in the cyber-warfare arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is simply titled \u201c2034: A Novel of the Next World War<\/a>\u201d and was copyrighted in 2021. I understand that there is now a sequel titled \u201c2054<\/a>\u201d by the same authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll be at the bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine that it\u2019s the year 2034. China is well ahead of the US in cyber-warfare. It manages to \u201cblind\u201d an American jet and bring it robotically to enemy turf, capturing the pilot. The Chinese then sink a few American warships they think are too close to their shores, and soon send 37 more to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}