Author's Introduction Preliminary Operations The Massacre Phase I 1 Flood and Fire 2 Knife in a Space Fight 3 The Successors Dilemma 4 Lethal in the Littoral 5 Stormfront Approaching 6 Grey Wizard 7 Overall Defense Concept 8 The Beetles 9 Tiger of the Land, Dragon of the Sea Phase II 10 What Happens in Nevada… 11 The Butchers Bill 12 Retreat, Hell 13 Adaptation Battle 14 The High Ground 15 Break In 16 Resolve 17 Courage and Wisdom 18 Remote War Phase III 19 Save Our Dream 20 New Strategy, Old Strategy 21 Transition 22 Monsoon 23 The City 24 The Pledge 25 Battle for Taichung 26 Battle for Taichung II 27 Mors Honesta 28 Morakot the Second 29 The Bitter Plain
Mick Ryan is a strategist and retired major general from the Australian Army. A distinguished graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, as well as the USMC Command and Staff College and USMC School of Advanced Warfare, he is a passionate advocate of professional education and lifelong learning. In a 35-year military career, he commanded at multiple levels in the Australian Army and served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Timor. His first book, War Transformed, was published in 2022.
The author's professional background equips him well to describe
changes in military technology and tactics, and these areas are
covered well in the narrative.
*Army Rumour Service*
A gripping account of future war that is equal parts entertaining
and sobering. Mick Ryan writes with a credibility and authority
that transforms this techno-thriller into a provocative wartime
narrative that belies its fictional roots … An absolute must
read.
*Steve Leonard, Senior Assistant Dean of the University of Kansas
School of Business and co-editor of To Boldly Go: Leadership,
Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond*
To be successful, future war fiction requires an author who is
militarily expert, has literary skill and an imaginative gift. Mick
Ryan has all those qualities in abundance, and the result is a book
that is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly
prescient. Not just an engaging tale but a warning of things to
come.
*Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies,
Johns Hopkins SAIS*
White Sun War is a first-rate techno-thriller. It is an enjoyable
read in and of itself, but its concept-driven narrative is what
sets it apart from other books. The characters and their
interactions illuminate ongoing debates about the future of war and
how a conflict between the United States and China could well play
out … While the goal is certainly to avoid war, it is far better to
be intellectually prepared for that possibility and its conduct,
and Ryan’s entry is a welcome addition to this discussion.
*Diplomatic Courier*
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