JOURNAL OF DEFENCE STUDIES

2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis

Major General Alok Deb, SM, VSM, Retd is former Deputy Director General of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He is Distinguished Fellow at The United Service Institution of India, New Delhi and Senior Visiting Fellow at Peninsula Foundation, Chennai. Click here for detailed profile
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  • January-March 2023
    Volume: 
    17
    Issue: 
    1
    Book Review

    For a book published in 2021 and preceding the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis is remarkably topical and prescient. It forecasts a future where great power ambition and a sense of infallibility of a superpower lure it towards utilising ‘compellence’ as a strategy towards attaining its goal of world domination, leading to predictable consequences. This conflict, interestingly, does not throw up the expected winners or losers; it on the contrary, leads to the establishment of a new world order, which comes close to embodying the Cold War phrase, ‘Nuclear Armageddon’.

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