Ghost Fleet by Singer

Ref: Singer (2015). Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Summary

A fictional account of a future war between the USA and China; the Chinese pre-emptively take the Hawaiian Islands as part of their “third Island Chain” policy to deter future American aggression.

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Classic mistake- choosing force protection over situational awareness.

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1917: Denmark sells the Virgin Islands to the USA.-Ghost Fleet by Singer.
1721: Greenland becomes a colony of Denmark. At the time, Greenland’s population lived primarily off subsistence fishing.-Ghost Fleet by Singer.
1405: Zheng He sets out on a series of expeditions to explore the known Chinese world. His fleet carried 28,000 soldiers and sailors in over 300 ships, with his nine-masted flagship being the largest ship ever built in the age of sail. As it traveled from Asia to Arabia and Africa, the massive fleet cowed some kingdoms into submission and defeated the few that chose to fight. By the end of the voyages, Admiral Zheng He had created the first transoceanic empire, a ring of some thirty vassal states with China at the center. Zheng He was the second son of a lowly rebel captured by Ming Dynasty forces and castrated at the age of eleven. The young eunuch had been trained as a soldier. But by navigating the perilous politics of the age, he rose to distinguish himself, eventually becoming taijian, grand director of the palace servants.-Ghost Fleet by Singer.

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