The Ghost fleet
The Ghost fleet is categorized under a techno-thriller, written by P.W. Singer and August Cole in the year 2015. The book depicts modern-day humor and tells a great story of the near-future war between the United States of America standing alone on one side, and on the opposite side is China and Russia alone. The authors, P.W. Singer, who happens to be a recognized award-winning expert on the 21st-century warfare, and August Cole, who is an analyst and a writer, majorly specialized in the issues that pertain to the national security, having worked as a defense industry reporter. Teams up to depict a compelling scenario, where the simmering cold war is seen to turn very hot, due to opening salvo taking effects in the seas, land, outer space and landing in the Cyber Space. The Russians and the Chinese counterparts settle for a decisive advantage by loading malware onto the semi-conductor chips of all the hard-wares in the USA military, thus the States not being able to achieve military communication and weapon system. This may, therefore, necessitate the question, with the USA military response equipment disabled, what will be the fate of the states, and how does the book achieve this?
Just at the onset of the book, the writers generally explain the homeland is paralyzed just by the weakest point, its general reliance on everyday technology. One of the USA’s land-scraping workers, without information, allows the penetration of radio wave Malware into the States defense while on his tablet reading. This enables the Chinesesponsored hackers, to be able to penetrate the military system of the USA, and wreak havoc on time, aided by the Russian government. The book giving an international tech espionage tale shifts the now from the general global space to Hawaii. The Hawaii Pearl Harbor is hit by a reprise of World War II attack, and this extends to the California State, where the retired Navy ships-Ghost fleets reside, and thus the title of the book.
At this juncture, the USA has lost a state, but the opponents have also been able to penetrate the defense Nuclear ICBM submarines on the sea. The states are known for their first-class military technology, and the nuclear arsenal defense system. However, with these partly disabled, the USA finds itself in a desperate situation, and thus they are forced to turn to all the alternative solutions that the country has at the moment. First, they take leverage on the surviving USA companies to help them make replacements of the tech systems by the use of 3D as fast as possible. At this time also, the Hawaii attacksurvivor’s attempts to launch an insurgency that is seen to turn the dull situation to their advantage, aided by the USA navy ghost fleets. These ghost fleets are of, Silicon Valley companies, adventurous billionaires, anonymous ownership, and even the pre-digital-war ships. The old fashion espionages provide the USA military with intelligence on how they could possibly turn the grin situation. That, unfortunately, the technology-based military does not understand until the shootings are on the verge. The main attribution of the American insurgence old soldiers is the fact that they are not reliant on the technology-based gadgets to fight, and this, combined with the years of experience that they are attributed to, becomes a necessity at the verge of their fall.
Now, what makes this story very timely, and so scary at the same time? This book is released during a period that there are numerous concerns on the fact that there are Russian and Chinese breach attempts in the Private and United States government networks. Numerous foreign governments are also being investigated for stealing USA technologies, and at the same time, the chap Microchips from china and the Russian governments are finding their way into being prioritized in the market, over the USA origin-based ones. Based on these real-world events, Ghost Fleet’s Novel is generally very plot plausible, since it shines on the modern world obsession of the over evolving tech and the baseline of the story also depicts the near future predictable events in the verge.
Describing the geopolitics future is not a very easy task. The writer had to take into account the mixtures of social development, politics, and science combined. And attach them in a way that the readers may easily find interest in reading the book, even though these are no the seen day to day topics to written in the novels. The book incorporates the real-world emerging trends to be fictional and thus land on a good story to pounder over. The book can be attributed to numerous research-based on the fact that the writers take into use in excess of 400 end-notes. Comparatively, this isn’t something that is seen in day to day works and novels. The plot drivers of the Novel are properly arranged into cyber thefts of the most secure intellectual properties, the diminishing etiquette in the use of electronic-based devices, and even the freedom of navigation tension as the one that is seen on the south China waters-sea.
This Novel can be seen to typically focus on the future and the ever-evolving technological advances. However, this is not only the main focus. Because the author’s combined works and ability still make the advances that they mentor towards invading the human elements. The book depicts some very active and essential human intelligence aspects that maybe not easily resistible, and thus a reader will find himself craving for the adjacent chapters. In the ewe chapters of the book, the authors make an attributable reality party in the embassy in the future. In Beijing post-communist, a successful U.S. navy seal commander is just concluding his two years’ service in the defense office and is being recognized by the Us ambassador. This is a diplomatic party that has been well attended with numerous visitors, majorly highly ranked, and/or government officials. However, the two authors were quick to recognize the attires that were inclusive of eyeglasses, watches, and jewelry. Which were very technologized, and had the ability to record and analyze the occurrence at the sitting, sucking back the information and letting the receivers sort the data. However, the authors only draw this to the end results, which is the authenticity of the ability without the technology.
In a nut, the Ghost Fleet fully has the right to be grated the accolades that it has received, based on the book’s majors. Moreover, based on the plotting and the research that the authors have done to make it comply with human intellectual ability. The Novel earns itself a first-rate techno-thriller, making it disquieting a must-read, just as it is very enjoyable. The authors ta their end make attempts to depict the pros that our best adversaries may suffer from the cyber-attacks that are happening right under our noses. And also, they elaborate on how the insecurity that comes from the electronics supply chains in the country makes the country very vulnerable, as the intelligence community is left in the sun for the enemy to ponder. Asked to rate the book, I would typically give it a 7 out of 10.