DZ Season 039 Part 01. World War III - Without the Nuclear Holocaust.

What’s World War III going to look like? Not that I want to see. It’s not going to look like anything we’ve ever seen before. One of the hottest selling books amongst the top level people at the Pentagon since 2016 has been “Ghost Fleet” written by PW Singer and August Cole. These guys aren’t the writers of your typical boy/man political/war thrillers, like Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising”. Singer is a consultant to the US military, the intelligence community and even Hollywood (maybe that counts for more than the other two). Just kidding, most stuff that comes out of Hollywood, as far as authenticity is concerned, is absolute rubbish. Singer’s top selling non-fiction book is “Wired for War”. It’s about the robotics revolution and how warfare is likely to develop in this century. August Cole, the co-writer for Ghost Fleet, is a writer, analyst and consultant, and was a former defense industry reporter for the prestigious Wall Street Journal. He’s also a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council – a think tank that looks at our world at the international level, and how things will develop. Cole’s focus is on exploring the future of warfare. In their novel, “Ghost Fleet”, they look at how they imagine World War III could start and how that war would be fought. It’s a terrifying story. I’ll be talking about that in this and my following programme. Tag words: World War III; Ghost Fleet; PW Singer; August Cole; Tom Clancy; Red Storm Rising; Wired for War; Stanley Kubrick; Dr Strangelove; George C. Scott; General “Buck’ Turgidson; Peter Sellers; Merkin Muffley; Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper; B-52; Cuban Missile Crisis; President Kennedy; Curtis Le May; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Apocalypse Never; Michael Shellenberger; Victor Weisskopf; Neil Bohrs; NATO; Warsaw Pact; John Lewis Gaddis; Kenneth Waltz; Robert Oppenheimer;