Retired U.S. Navy Admiral Stavridis and another Navy officer recently collaborated on a chilling fictional novel that predicts a world war between the United States and China over the South China Sea conflict. The picture shows the U.S. Navy conducting large-scale military exercises in the South China Sea.
In recent years, the U.S. and China have been worried about a military conflict leading to a world war, and retired U.S. Admiral James Stavridis and another naval officer recently published a fictional novel with a chilling plot, starting with a burning fishing boat in the South China Sea, leading to a conflict between the U.S. and China that eventually turned into a world war. Many of the book’s plots and characters come from the 2 authors’ service experiences, and they even warn that a similar plot could happen in a much shorter time.
According to Deutsche Welle, Stavridis, the author of the book entitled 2034: A novel of the next world war (2034: A novel of the next world war, or 2034), personally commanded a destroyer squadron in the Western Pacific before being promoted to four-star general, and in 2009 became the top military officer of NATO forces in Europe. In 2009, he became the top military officer of NATO forces in Europe. Another author is U.S. Marine Corps officer Elliot Ackerman.
The author of the prophetic fiction novel “2034: A Novel of the Next World War” says the book was published not to create conflict, but to warn and prevent us from falling into a world war.
The Policy Exchange Council, a British think tank, held a seminar for Stavridis (left) about his new book, with former U.S. Army four-star general and former CIA chief Petros (right).
Stavridis said in an interview with German media that in reality, a war between China and the United States is very likely to happen. So far, the most common feedback he has heard about the novel is that it is “a very good book, but the year is not set right,” and some senior officers believe it is not for 2034, but for 2024 or 2026.
Four-star Adm. Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Army Indo-Pacific, warned in testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee last month that China could invade Taiwan within six years.
In testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee last month, four-star Adm. Philip Davidson, commander of the U.S. Army Indo-Pacific, warned that the Chinese Communist Party could invade Taiwan within six years.
If there are two factors that trigger conflict, motivation and opportunity,” Stavridis said. Then the South China Sea is a combination of both: the motive is many points of contention, and the opportunity is a heavily armed fleet.”
He warned that, looking back at history, war is very likely to break out when a power like China, which is massively increasing its military power, catches up with another power like the United States. The Chinese Communist Party is massively expanding its fleet and already has more warships than the United States. Referring to the original purpose of the novel, he said, “We didn’t write ‘2034’ to create conflict, but to warn and prevent us from getting into a major war.”
Stavridis believes that more communication is needed between the major powers to prevent escalation, for example, there is no “hotline” between the U.S. and China, as there was between the Soviet Union and the U.S. during the Cold War, and there is no formal agreement on monitoring accidents on the high seas. The first-line Air Force and Navy officers are young, many in their 20s and 30s, and these young people need framework guidelines, and their superiors need a hotline that can de-escalate the situation.
The newspaper noted that Stavridis retired from the military in 2013 to work as a consultant and commentator as a military expert, and after Trump’s victory in 2016, Stavridis was once considered likely to take over as secretary of state. He wrote in Nikkei Asia last month that President Biden’s national security team has redlined several threats to U.S. national security, including any Chinese Communist Party military attack on Taiwan or its offshore islands, public infrastructure or major cyber attacks on Taiwan, in addition to any nuclear, chemical or biological weapons actions against the United States or its allies, or an attack on Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, as well as in the South China Sea any significant hostile action taken against the United States or its allies, or to prevent the full freedom of navigation of U.S. and allied maritime forces, etc.
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