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In Space Wars, Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes created a fascinating war gaming scenario of how World War III might unfold in above the Earth’s surface. Now this thrilling team of writers reunites with Counterspace, an even more chilling fictionalized look at America’s most catastrophic fears.
What if North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon in space and silenced dozens of satellites?
What if an Iranian missile threatened to destroy Israel, while a Venezuelan “research” satellite endangered one of the US’s most promising space initiatives?
What if tech-savvy terrorist cells unleashed back-to-back horrors in California, creating an avalanche of crises overnight, as national leaders robbed of spy satellite imagery were forced to make decisions in the “blind”?
These are the scenarios of Counterspace, a frighteningly plausible look at threats to the United States and the world. Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes use war gaming scenarios to show how the US Strategic Command might choose to fight off these menaces and prevent global disaster. Combining current and future technology with our enemies’ grandest plans, Counterspace is equally a terrifying possibility and a hopeful affirmation that America can and will be ready to face such dangers, told with the pulse-pounding power of a modern day thriller.
- Sales Rank: #1428903 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Forge Books
- Published on: 2009-10-13
- Released on: 2009-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.13" w x 6.40" l, 1.20 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
WILLIAM B. SCOTT, a former bureau chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flight test engineer graduate, served as a space communications security engineer at the National Security Agency. He coauthored Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III and Inside the Stealth Bomber: The B-2 Story.
MICHAEL J. COUMATOS, a former U.S. Navy test pilot, search-and-rescue helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, ship's captain, and Commodore of U.S. and coalition naval task groups, served as Director of Wargaming for U.S. Space Command. He also coauthored Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III.
WILLIAM J. BIRNES is the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Roswell and Worker in the Light, and a coauthor of Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Counterspace, a fast-paced Sci-Fi thriller
By Donald E. Fink, Jr.
COUNTERSPACE: The Next Hours of World War III
By William B. Scott, Michael J. Coumatos and William J. Birnes, a Forge Book published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 352 pp., $29.95
Counterspace is the second book authored by this troika of highly qualified sci-fi authors. It continues the story started in their first book, Space Wars: The first Six Hours of World War III, published in 2007. While a sequel, Counterspace serves well as a stand-alone story. The book opens in March of 2011 with North Korea launching a crude nuclear warhead into space over the Pacific Ocean. They detonate the weapon at high altitude to "fry," blind and otherwise immobilize a wide variety of space observation and communications satellites operated by the United States, other countries, and commercial entities.
The early chapters take the reader on a wild ride into the inner workings of the major U. S. space agencies, including the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the U. S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), "and most of America's spook agencies. . ." The story of how the U. S. reacts to this provocative action by North Korea is told through the eyes of high-ranking space commanders and technicians. The authority with which the scenes are described gives the reader an insider's view of the stressful environment these senior officers function in as they scramble first to confirm that the Korean missile is not lofting a nuclear weapon at a Pacific Rim target and second to assess what damage the high altitude detonation has wreaked.
It soon develops that the military and commercial communications satellites covering the Pacific Ocean, as well as the extensive network of reconnaissance and signals intelligence satellites, have been severely degraded, leaving the U. S. with little real-time information on what was happening in the increasingly tense Pacific theater of operations. This further exacerbates tensions between the U. S. and China as the two nuclear powers jockey for position in the Pacific Rim power struggle. Officials in both governments suspect the other is using the communications and reconnaissance blackout as a screen to cover preparations for preemptive strikes.
The authors add another dose of realism by injecting Hamas terrorists from Iran into the mix, which further confuses the picture. Which enemy or enemies are attacking the U. S. and is there a connection?
War-gaming, in reality sophisticated brainstorming sessions by top-level military analysts and theoreticians, figures heavily in the evolving Counterspace drama. Experienced military strategists use these and high-powered computers to sort through myriad "what-ifs" to determine who is doing what to whom and generate effective counter-measures.
The three authors, Scott, who retired after a distinguished career with Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine; Coumatos, U. S. Navy retired and former U. S. Space Command Director of War Games, and Birnes, co-author of two New York Times best sellers, bring a combined expertise to the task of weaving the intricacies of twenty-first century defense operations into a plausible, fast-moving novel that has a cliff-hanging ending.
Donald E. Fink, Jr.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Frightening Real
By Thomas M. Magee
This book is excellent!! Any real student of military affairs needs to read this book. It talks about things in a way that will open your eyes like nothing else.
It really is spell bounding in many different ways. This book is a mix of "how to" technology description with a mix of Tom Clancy like story telling. The story reads like it comes right off of CNN or some other news source. This book picks up from Space Wars by the same author last year. It continues in the same way that book went.
The book has something most people will miss. The secret ingredient says on the title page:
"Although the characters and actual events depicted in Counterspace are fiction and bear no relationship to actual person living or dead the action and weapons depicted herein are based on actual technologies and war gaming strategies used by the United States military and civilian war planners in preparation for the types of events depicted"
The book talks about things that you will not see listed anywhere else. The book talks about space plans, counter satellite capabilities, ground based satellite technologies with a sprinkling of strategy and tactics. The stories of these technologies is worth the price of the book alone. Many of these stories about the technologies will remind you of many of a UFO story you see in other sources.
The story of the book is icing on the cake. This story does communicate well how fast things in the world can go to pieces literally over night. The book has the North Koreans detonates a nuclear device in space. That explosion creates a EMP pulse that seriously damages America's space capacity. That makes America semi-blind. This blindness effects decisions. That event mixed with other events pushes the world to the brink of WWIII. The story line will get the reader thinking about how things aren't what they seem at first glance. The book also makes one think about the damage collusion among America's enemies can create.
This book is very enjoyable. It reads like a movie. In fact it would make a real good movie someday too. All people will enjoy this no matter what your background is.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Don't waste your time
By Fay T. Spellerberg
Shallowly written, I had expected many more details and higher drama since it purports to describe initial hours of World War III.
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