The U.S. and China start a shooting war. Nucs are dropped. San Diego and Shanghai are destroyed. India emerges as a superpower.
This is a quick summary of 2034, a novel by Eliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, published earlier this year. It’s a page turner. In the book China is able to disrupt the electronic communications equipment on which the U.S. military depends. In addition, internal divisions in the U.S. have continued, and those divisions serve to encourage a belief in China that American should be easily defeated. The conflict also encourages other nations to take advantage of the chaos; for example, Russia peels off a chunk of Poland and regains the Baltic states.
It’s fiction, but you may feel some slight discomfort when you read it.
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