KELLY: At the heart of this novel is a rising China and a declining America that no longer enjoys military superiority. Welcome to you both.ĮLLIOT ACKERMAN: Thank you for having us. is plotting revenge.Īnd that is just the first few pages of the new military thriller titled "2034: A Novel Of The Next World War." It is fiction, but it is lent a pretty terrifying degree of authenticity and authority by the fact of who the two authors are, Elliot Ackerman, a Marine Corps veteran who served five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Jim Stavridis, retired four-star admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO. Iran and China, it emerges, are plotting together.
Marine Corps pilot testing stealth technology from the cockpit of his F-35 has just been captured in Iranian airspace. Hundreds of American sailors now lie at the bottom of the South China Sea. warships have just been targeted and sunk by the Chinese navy.
The month is March 2034, and two national security crises are playing out at once.
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