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Peace --- Pacifism --- World War III --- Social justice --- Societies, etc. --- Protest movements --- Conscientious objectors --- United States.

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From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic preeminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, coauthored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophitication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years of working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the readers a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid. --

Naval battles --- Cyberspace operations (Military science) --- World War III --- United States --- Foreign relations

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Warum hat der Dritte Weltkrieg nicht stattgefunden? Das ist die Leitfrage des vorliegenden Buches. Es beschreibt die Rolle der apokalyptischen Phantasie, die sich und uns das Schlimmste ausmalt, um es zu verhüten. Dabei erleben wir die Einbildungskraft zunächst auf Aufholjagd. Der Erste Weltkrieg war als totaler Krieg ein nie dagewesenes Ereignis, das erst in den Raum des Vor- und Darstellbaren ineintransportiert werden mußte. Das leistete insbesondere die deutsche und englische Kriegsdichtung, die gleichsam als Augenzeugenbericht direkt auf dem Kriegsschauplatz entstand, und die spätere Aufarbeitung im Roman (Im Westen nichts Neues) und Kino (Westfront). Zur Verhinderung des Zweiten Weltkriegs reichten die so aufgebauten ästhetischen Widerstandspotentiale allerdings nicht aus. Erst der sich in Reaktion auf die neuerliche Erfahrung entgrenzter Gewalt ausbildende Darstellungsmodus des schwarzen Humors (Catch-22, Dr. Strangelove) war effektiver. Die entsprechend trostlose, doch fieberhafte und multimediale Ausmalung des atomaren Weltuntergangs, die Welle (post)apokalyptischer Phantasien in den Romanen, Filmen, Theaterstücken, Songs insbesondere der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, so eine zentrale These der Untersuchung, hat ihn verhindert. Einen Grund zum Feiern gibt es trotzdem nicht. Die Arsenale sind weiterhin gefüllt. Auch die Militärstrategen sind phantasiebegabt und manövrieren ohne Unterlaß. Der Kampf der Kriegsspiele und Simulationen geht weiter.

Nuclear warfare --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- World War III. --- Nuclear warfare in literature. --- Art and nuclear warfare. --- Art and atomic warfare --- Nuclear warfare and art --- Third World War --- World politics --- Military policy --- Psychology, Military --- Strategy --- First strike (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear crisis stability --- Atomic warfare and society --- Social aspects. --- Friedensforschung --- Konfliktlösung --- Kulturgeschichte --- Kulturwissenschaft --- Sozialwissenschaft --- Sozialgeschichte --- Guerre nucléaire --- Dans la littérature