“This is the Chinese navy. This is the Chinese navy. Please go away quickly.”
This was the scene that CNN captured last month when a U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance plane was angrily ordered away from a base that China was building in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
The scary thing for us is that it is also the opening scene of our new book, “Ghost Fleet,” which explores the risks of what might happen if the great powers of the 21st century ever went to war. The probability of “interstate war” is low right now, but growing, according to a Pentagon report released Wednesday.
If a war were to break out, one of the key lessons of the book is that such a conflict wouldn’t be contained to those waters, but rather places humans have never fought before.
The last time the most powerful nations on the planet faced off was 70 years ago. Notably, it was also the year that a young physicist named Arthur C. Clarke came up with the idea of a putting a network of artificial satellites in geostationary orbits above Earth.
Clarke would go on to become one of the most important science fiction writers in history with works such as “2001: A Space Odyssey.” His satellite concept was turned into reality almost a decade later and shaped the world in a way that has fundamentally changed science, business and communications.
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