Ghost Fleet, P.W. Singer
Ghost Fleet, P.W. Singer
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Ghost Fleet
A Novel of the Next World War

Author: P.W. Singer, August Cole

Narrator: Rich Orlow

Unabridged: 14 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/30/2015

Synopsis

The year is 2026. China has taken over as the world's largest economy, while the United States, mired in an oil shortage, struggles to adjust to its diminished role. Then, a surprise attack throws the U.S. into a chaos unseen since Pearl Harbor. As the enemy takes control, the survival of the nation will depend upon the most unlikely forces: the Navy's antiquated Ghost Fleet and a cadre of homegrown terrorists. Ghost Fleet is unique in that every piece of technology featured in the novel already exists or is in the works. Peter W. Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a consultant for the US Department of Defense and FBI. August Cole is a journalist and writer specializing in national security issues and is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Security Project.

About P.W. Singer

P. W. Singer is a strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, founder of the technology advisory firm NeoLuddite, the author of multiple award-winning books, and a contributing editor at Popular Science. He has been named by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the 100 leading innovators in the nation, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, and by Onalytica social media data analysis as one of the ten most influential voices in the world on cybersecurity. He has also appeared on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Singer was the founding director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. He was the youngest scholar named senior fellow in Brookings' ninety-eight-year history. Prior to that, he was the founding director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, where he was the organizer of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global leaders conference. He has also worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. Dr. Singer received his PhD in government from Harvard and a BA from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

Ghost Fleet is a kind of modern update to Red Storm Rising, where 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......more

Goodreads review by Spencer

The writing is so horrific. I've never read so much old-man cursing or so many "adverbs," he said 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 cool to read about how, for exam......more

Goodreads review by John

Short review. I loved it. If you enjoyed the Tom Clancy school of the 1980s 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 way through his books. Not in the early years, any......more

Goodreads review by Turner

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