Ghost Fleet, Singer and Cole - B

                                                This book is subtitled 'A Novel of the Next World War' and is set in the near future - I'm guessing the early 2030's.  China is ruled by the Directorate, a much more capable, efficient and honest regime than the CCP. The US has been bashed by a series of financial crises and the oil of the mideast is lost because someone blew up a dirty bomb near the Straits of Hormuz.  We've cut back on our defense spending when the Chinese strike, and it is very scary to read about how precisely and devastatingly they do strike. They neutralize all of our space-based communications, destroy all of our nuclear subs in the Pacific and successfully destroy Pearl Harbor and occupy Hawaii. Our European NATO partners quickly desert us and we are very diminished and alone.  The counter-attack is based on a lot of old air and naval materiel and some good old American nerve and fortitude. This novel is a total fun read and to some extent, an eye-opener. It makes the point that the strategic challenge to the US is not in the sandpit; it is in the east.