2034 Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis, USN
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
924

2034 by Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis, USN Book Summary

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

“Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever—and it happens to be a rippingly good read.” —Wired

“This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." —The Washington Post

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034—and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand.

So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power.

Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.

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Book Name 2034
Genre Fiction & Literature
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2034 (Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis, USN) Book Reviews 2024

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Just Ok. Too much focus on uninteresting characters combined with an unrealistic and unsatisfactory conclusion.

Starts strong, then falls off a cliff. The first quarter of the book is pretty good. The rest is just a listing of events with little interconnection and no resolution. The story doesn’t end so much as it just stops. I wouldn’t recommend.

Sobering and Though Provoking ... Read It. If you are looking for a “Clancyesque” military techno thriller this is not it. As good a read as most of those are “2034” strikes right at the heart of the decline of the United States on the world stage and a realignment of world order. Our arrogance and over confidence will be our downfall. History has a habit of repeating itself, ... Rome, The British Empire both come to mind. It is well written, a good read, many will not like the storyline, if this doesn’t get you thinking then you should be concerned.

This book was amazing!!!. Great story, hopefully it will remain a story and not a reality.

Don’t Waste Your Time. Unrealistic with little detail. Forgettable characters with little to no development. This book takes extreme liberties while completely disregarding entire sections of National Security and policy. It basically plays on this idea that one computer program could simultaneously hack every network, to include independently operated networks that don’t overlap or “talk” to each other, and bring the world to a halt. A student of even the most rudimentary computer networking class or security certificate would be able to understand how this isn’t realistic in the slightest. It would’ve been more realistic to have the PRC utilize a spectrum of cyber warfare in a specific capacity such as a singular attack on the stock market, the power grid, NATO communications or even the military’s LINK 16 network. This book also completely ignores NATO and U.S. allies, satellites, space warfare, and the basic logistics of war. Don’t waste your time.

100 Pages Needed. The premise and the plot drew me to this book. Don’t expect Tom Clancy detail. In fact, this novel provided no technical details and little in the way of how the characters arrived at their decisions. The book needs another 100 plus pages of detail and insights into the characters thought processes.

Thought provoking and humbling. A keen reminder to never take what we have as Americans for granted.

Unbelievably boring and disappointing. With an Admiral as co-writer, I had hope of a creative and maybe innovative or at least realistic plot. My high school boys could have come up with a more original story line with the same level of military insight. If you are hoping to find the next Clancy, this is not it.

Not real.. Not nearly as good as I was expecting. Does the USA not have an Air Force any more in 2034 and is relegated to military action with only Naval vessels then? With a co-author who was a senior level Navy officer with senior commands under his belt (theater commands?), this man knows integrated military tactics across all the branches of the military. I found myself halfway through the book thinking this is not realistic at all.

Awful. Poorly written with thin and stereotypical characters. Atrocious dialogue. Characters make a series of nonsensical decisions. Story ends with an inexplicable Deus ex machina. I regret reading this.

Terrible. If you like wokeness and extremely unrealistic writing, this is a book worth reading.

Timely. A timely story at a time when America must face two divergent paths. Down one is the anarchy of a country divided by demons that tear us asunder into a charnel house of autocracy. The other an opportunity grasped that catapults America into a golden age of a society dedicated to the rights of not just it own citizens, but the citizens of all who nah it this small delicate place we call Earth.

Very Disappointed. Expected more from these authors. San Diego and Galveston wiped off the map, yet no public reaction? Author brushed right past it. Poorly written,

No. Oh how I wish I read the ratings before I bought this. Sloppy writing and unrealistic outcomes. I thought the premise was interesting, but this story reads more like a high schooler wrote it.

2034 quick review. i enjoyed reading 2034. it was very well written with a surprise ending. i highly recommend 2034!

Fast moving thriller. Pulls itself forward quickly as events spin toward a climax. Teaches good lessons about globalized economies and communications as well as good old time keeping and courage.

Good, but missing one key thing.. Pretty good; I’m no intel analyst but the incremental brinksmanship portrayed in this novel seems realistic, opportunistic mid rank Chinese military officials causing a flare up to advance rank in the party, condescending/racist Washington security staff making dumb decisions like the Russian Tsars did against the Japanese, and a broken US political system definitely all check out as I turn on the news and type this. The major wild card left out of this book is climate change, however. The Pentagon has said the Climate Change represents a huge national security threat and China likewise has much of its population in coastal cities and its inland ones are being inundated with floods in the year 2021, forcing the central government to commit more and more resources toward mitigating its effects. There is little to no mention of such a huge strategic factor in this book.

2034. Great insight of the destiny of our country and the world. We are the creators of our suicide. Hubris and ego were the attributes our leaders would adopt. Recommend highly.

A Memorable Reading Experience. A real screen flipper. With great empathy we get to examine many points of view on urgent matters that affect us today and that will shape our future. Elliot Ackerman and James Admiral Stavridis puts the reader in the minds and hearts of fascinating characters.

Illumination of peril we face today. The book raises awareness of a real peril we face today, sounds an alarm. All Americans should be aware of the situations and possibilities portrayed in the book. Having said that. If you are looking for a ‘competence porn’ or a real war game write-up, you’re not going to find it in this book. The book reads like a collection of images/impressions of a possible future. It’s pretty short on not descriptions of mechanics and dynamics of interactions between humans, machines, and environment.

Disappointed. I was really hoping for a Clancy type approach to WW3 in the East. While the writing is good, the rest falls apart. The set up for period is patently ridiculous. Just a couple lines to explain how Israel lost a war and the Golan Heights. The rest of the book only gets worse. No details to explain how China would be able to create and deploy cyber weapons that allow them to take over our planes planes so completely that even hardwired mechanical systems like the ejection seats are inoperable. The author utterly ignores whole platforms like subs. Our Allies are similarly ignored or brushed off with just a couple of improbable lines with no support. Instead it reads like a shallow rant against things the author dislikes, but has no reason, data, or even a mildly reasoned argument to justify. Just reread Red Storm Rising again.

Interesting premise But lacking details.. Well the premise was good I think too much time was spent on the individual characters and not on the overall premise of the book.

Easy to put down. Most the action was skipped in the book. Made the rest of the book very dry with nothing to grab you to keep reading. The book was very easy to put down.

Ridiculous and poorly written. This is not Tom Clancy. I was a Navy pilot and flew off ships for 10 years of my life. I wasn’t expecting much, but I receive less. I cannot believe an admiral put his name on this book. The strategic and tactical information is all sophomoric and the entire narrative is immature to the point of absurdity. Don’t read this unless you enjoy mind candy that provides zero nutrition for your brain.

Disappointing. Great start but…... Great first chapter but then goes off the track. Too short on character development and keeps rotating the few he has through too many positions and events. Had hoped for better.

Must read. Couldn't put it down. A warning to the world

One Nuclear bomb is too much to comprehend.. Good story to a point then became unbelievable.

“victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”. Quick read, light on the details. However, this book does a good job of illustrating what the end game of an Sino-American war would look like. There are no winners in this game.

Lacking. The bones of the story never get fleshed out. Sorely lacking on detail, character development. It is a halfhearted try

2034. Good reading

Great story!. Started the reading on “Wired” magazine. I liked it so much that I have need up buying the book.

2034. A real page turner, could not put it down. Makes think about what’s happening in the world today. Scary.

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Gripping. Great start but ends with a whimper - still recommend reading it

Gripping Sub-Clancy fare. I enjoyed this near vision of the future - it is a well-constructed thriller which tried hard to focus on a few three dimensional main players. I read it at one sitting - though I was skimming a lot of character detail to get to plot. It is probably a little short to really do the weighty scenario - a Sino-US WWIII Endgame - justice. It reminded me of Clancy’s Red Storm Rising (also flawed). Given the author is in the military, it has surprisingly little detail of military hardware and tactics - I expected more. One thing that really bothered me was the cursory treatment of the Taiwan conflict - I live in Taiwan - and I am pretty sure the matter would be nowhere near as cut and dried. The island barely gets a paragraph. I also don’t find some other major events believable - perhaps because the almost summative style of writing at times over-simplifies moments of great import. This novel was written quickly. It borrows liberally from Hollywood tropes from Battlestar Galactica to Dr. Strangelove - which is not always a bad thing, but can make things feel stale. The most well-drawn character is a Chinese general educated in the west and who loves MandMs! All in all this was a good read, but felt rushed or perhaps over-edited? It kept me up for. night to get to the end - so that can’t be all bad. The bad guys - the Chinese - with their art of war masterstrokes - are probably what kept me reading...

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A most important read!. Being a former U.S. Marine, having spent years at sea and briefly served in President Kennedy’s personal security, and ultimately as a retired former University professor and current political junky, this has been the most interesting and important book I have read in a long time!

Good subject bad execution. 1-shameless product placement 2- "cardboard" characters. 3-stereotypes galore. 4-Wasted expertise from the authors due to terrible storyline. Predictable plot. Save your money for good old Frederick Forsyth, Morris West, Leon Uris, LeCarre, etc, novels. Disappointing.

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