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Author Debriefing: Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with PW Singer, co-author of Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (which he wrote with August Cole). In the spirit of early Tom Clancy (especially Red Storm Rising), Ghost Fleet is a imagining of how World War III might play out. But what makes it even more notable is how the book smashes together the technothriller and nonfiction genres. It is a novel, but with 400 endnotes, showing how every trend and technology featured in book— no matter how sci-fi it may seem — is real. Singer, who is also a contributing editor at Popular Science, lays out the future of technology and war, while following a global cast of characters fighting at sea, on land, in the air and in two new places of conflict: outer space and cyberspace. For more on Ghost Fleet, check out ghostfleetbook.com.

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hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to an authorie briefing from the International Spy Museum. I'm Dr Vince Houghton, the museum's

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historian and curator. Here at the spy museum we get the world's most interesting authors,

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Please join me in listening to another of our selected authorly briefings.

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So we're joined today by P.W. Singer, a strategic and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing

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editor at Popular Science.

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He has been named by the Subsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery as one of the

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hundred leading innovators in the nation.

1:41.4

By Defense News, as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues,

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by analytical social media data analysis as one of the 10 most influential voices in the world

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on cybersecurity, and by foreign Policy to their top 100 global thinkers

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list. Described by the Wall Street Journal as the premier futurists in the

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National Security Environment. Dr. Singer, who has his PhD in government from

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Harvard, is considered one of the world's

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