{"id":5596,"date":"2024-04-17T19:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2024-04-17T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:49:28","slug":"2034-a-novel-of-the-next-world-war-by-elliot-ackerman-and-james-stavridis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/2034-a-novel-of-the-next-world-war-by-elliot-ackerman-and-james-stavridis\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>2034: A Novel of the Next World War<\/b> by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54211065-2034\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1593385556l\/54211065._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"2034: A Novel of the Next World War\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/54211065-2034\">2034: A Novel of the Next World War<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8344246.Elliot_Ackerman\">Elliot Ackerman<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/6436266107\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title tells you most of what you want to know. Stavridis is a retired Admiral who has imagined a conflict in the year 2034 beginning with an operation by China to destroy the U.S. fleet in the South China Sea in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan. A Commodore named Sarah Hunt becomes the lead characters for that phase. At the same time a plucky U.S. pilot named Wedge is doing a recon mission along the border of the airspace with Iran. In both cases the allied Chinese and Irani forces use cyber warfare to disable the U.S. &#8220;smart&#8221; weapons and are successful in destroying the fleet and capturing Wedge. As things escalate we are introduced to important political characters, especially a deputy National Security Advisor named Sandy Chowdhury, his uncle, a high-level Indian diplomat, a Chinese military leader, Lin Bao, and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard named Farshad.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought this book seemed very much like a Tom Clancy novel, especially by how the action is unfolding in multiple spots around the world and its heavy detail-oriented military action descriptions. Like a Clancy book, the plot line slurred into a series of diplomatic issues and fanciful imaginings of how the various governments would respond as things spiral out of control. But as it neared the end, it reminded me much more of Catch-22 and Dr. Strangelove. A combination of misjudgments, ego-driven decisions, technical glitches, and bad or good luck drive the plot to a comically avoidable climax. I had trouble finding any of the characters believable. If there&#8217;s any message intended here, it&#8217;s that the U.S. particularly and society in general is too dependent on technology, especially software, and we are all vulnerable to cyber warfare or smaller attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman My rating: 3 of 5 stars The title tells you most of what you want to know. 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