Could war with China be lost in cyberspace?
Jamie McIntyre
“It’s bad, Sandy.”
“The Ford and the Miller, they’re gone.”
“What do you mean gone?”
That dialogue is an exchange between two characters in a novel that imagines a future war with China.
The plot includes a devastating surprise attack in which the United States loses two aircraft carriers, 35 other warships, and thousands of sailors after Chinese cyberwarfare blinds the U.S. Navy and disables satellite-reliant weapons.
In the book
2034: A Novel of the Next World War, authors James Stavridis, a retired supreme commander for NATO, and Elliot Ackerman, a former Marine, paint a cautionary tale about what could happen if China employs a “blind the elephant” strategy and the U.S. is over-reliant on computer-networked weapons, such as ships, planes, and tanks.