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Dragon Strike -- A Novel of the Coming War with China (Furure History)
 
 

Dragon Strike -- A Novel of the Coming War with China (Furure History) [Kindle Edition]

Humphrey Hawksley , Simon Holberton
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The deafening roar of Chinese warplanes shreds the tranquillity of the gathering dawn. Within minutes burning phospherous, shrapnel, and delayed-action mines have ripped apart the strategic Cam Ranh Bay naval base in Vietnam. Operation Dragon Strike has begun.

The events described in this book have not yet happened
It is a future history, an exercise in military and political
prediction, about a country whose emergence as a world
power is one of the most important developments of theearly Twentieth Century. The arrival of China on the world
stage poses problems not encountered by the
world’s democracies for well over fifty years.

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, another power bloc is emerging. It is wealthy. It is expansionist. It has yawning cultural differences with the West. It is embittered about its past. China is a nondemocratic one-party state, whose government has to prove itself to survive. This book has been written as a warning of what might happen if Western, and especially American, policy towards China is allowed to drift.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Kindle edition - fill in the blanks 30 Dec 2010
Format:Kindle Edition
Having read other work by the author, I was not disappointed by content or execution - in fact this filled in some of the blanks. Not a personal story - it revolves around power plays and politics, with the technology of war filling in the gaps in the discussions.

However, it was made more difficult in the Kindle edition by having a few characters/words missing ~ery so often - disrupting the ~ow of reading. (My ~ for emphasis...) - one more star if that gets fixed!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Schoolboy fantacies? 27 May 1999
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This book will have you lying in bed at night wondering if it really could happen. Hawksley and Holberton have put a lot of reasearch into this scenario of how China's aspirations of reunifying it's historically held territories may be played out in the future. They have consulted military, politcal and financial sources to make this novel very realistic reading.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, Bad & Kindle 1 Sep 2011
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A great thrill ride and a "future History" many of whose predictions have already come to pass. So, you ask, if the story is so good,why only three stars? Simple, parts of the Kindle version are unreadable! half a word missing here, half a line missing there. In parts the Kindle book is more like a comprehension (cloze)exercise than a novel and the parts referring to the financial markets have most of the figures missing! In short, the publisher made a really sloppy job of converting a great novel into an ebook. It is to be hoped that they've made a better job of their other Kindle offerings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Strike 13 Mar 2013
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Brilliant Book. It moved swiftly from war considerations to financial and economic implications. In the end, no one won but everybody won. To an extent, it reminded me , in a more complex way, of "When the Kissing had to stop".
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3.0 out of 5 stars history? 21 Feb 2013
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story line is good but has no substance. it just seems to be facts and figures cobbold together.better novels out there.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping stuff 27 Jan 2013
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My first kindle book, and I smashed it in 2 days. Very enjoyable, accurate assessment on what surely will happen within the next 20 years or less.

I can't talk about the grammar, but for pure escapism it was excellent.
Well researched, the action scenes were believable.

One negative for me was it all finished rather soon, surely the USA would not "roll over " as described in the book. For all our sakes lets hope not!
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2.0 out of 5 stars probably a good read if you can fill in the blanks 12 April 2012
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like the other reviewers i found this a frustrating read due to the missing words and letters which litter the kindle edition. i did perciver but it spoiled an otherwise excellent read.....at least i think it was.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't work so well on Kindle 13 Sep 2011
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Interesting concept for a novel but a bit heavy (padded out) with political comings and goings and fails to hold the attention. Not helped by a very poor conversion to Kindle which leads to poor spelling etc, others may have seen this with other books but it is the first time I have come across this to this extent.
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