2020, Paul Cornish
2020, Paul Cornish
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2020
World of War

Author: Paul Cornish, Kingsley Donaldson

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/06/2017


Synopsis

' A timely and cogent reminder that history never ends and is about to be made' - Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography

The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War.

Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty?
Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine?
Who's arming the refugees in the migrant camps on the shores of the Mediterranean?
What's happening in space?

From cyber security to weapons technology, from economics to robotics, from geopolitics to undercover operations, 2020: World of War will offer us a compelling account of the shape our world will take in the future.

Told through a number of gripping scenarios, all reality-based, all using the authors' experience and inside knowledge of the way the world works, whether inside the Pentagon or on the front line of international conflict, this book is a must for everyone who wants to understand what our future looks like.

(P) 2017 Hodder & Stoughton

About Paul Cornish

Paul Cornish was educated at the University of St Andrews and the London School of Economics. He then served in the British Army (Royal Tank Regiment) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before completing his PhD in strategic history at the University of Cambridge. He is Chief Strategist at Cityforum Public Policy Analysis and Visiting Professor at the National Security College, Australian National University.

About Kingsley Donaldson

KINGSLEY DONALDSON is a retired Army officer. He has served on operations in a number of European and Middle Eastern countries in various roles that span from countering weapons of mass destruction through to negotiating with armed groups in Iraq. His last appointments at the Ministry of Defence were concerned with national defence and security strategy. He now advises a number of governments in his role as Director of the Causeway Institute for Peace-building Conflict Resolution International.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cameron

This book is an interesting one, the chapters go into a wide variety of topics (on regional, environmental, health) and how they could be issues to the international security environment, there are also worst-case scenarios to most of these topics. It is a well-researched book, and it does provide s......more

Goodreads review by Martin

Not sure what I expected but I was disappointed by this book. I was hoping to learn something new but I didn't, at all. The scenarios the author describes have become increasingly unlikely after the UK snap elections and the out come of the French elections.......more