Space Wars

Michael Coumatos, William Scott, William J. Birnes

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Michael Coumatos is a former U.S. Navy test pilot, U.S. Space Command director of war gaming, and a National Security Council counterterrorism advisor.  William Scott is a retired Rocky Mountain bureau chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and a former U.S. Air Force flight-test engineer, who served with the National Security Agency and as aircrew on nuclear-sampling missions.  These renowned experts have joined forces to grippingly depict how the first hours of World War III might play out in the year 2010.

Coumatos and Scott take the reader inside U.S. Strategic Command, where top military commanders, space-company executives, and U.S. intelligence experts are conducting a DEADSATS II wargame, exploring how the loss of critical satellites could lead to nuclear war. The players don’t know that the war they are gaming has already begun,  miles above them in the lifeless, silent cold of space. Jam-packed with the actual systems and secret technologies the United States has or will soon field to protect its space assets, Space Wars describes a near-future nuclear nightmare that terrorists will relish but politicians prefer to ignore. In a quieter, more peaceful time, Space Wars would be an exciting work of fiction. But with the United States now at war, Space Wars is all too real.

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Chapter One

DEADSATS

3 APRIL 2010/IN ORBIT, 200 MILES ABOVE EARTH

The first shots were silent.

No incendiary blast of explosives. No bombs exploding over a battlefield. No dramatic flash of a nuclear fireball to signal the onset of high-tech combat. Only a silent, single burst of electrons.

High above the Earth, drifting noiselessly in the black deep freeze of orbital space, a multimillion-dollar satellite simply died, a casualty of tiny but critical electronic circuits that failed when bombarded by a surge of electrons, exceeding the microprocessors’

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“A wake-up call for Western society.  Space Wars should be mandatory reading for politicians, policy makers, businessmen, lawyers, and students.”--Maj. Gen. Wilbert D. Pearson, U.S. Air Force (ret.), vice president of Lockheed Martin

Space Wars is a book that can be read as a thriller, as a call to arms or a fictionalized exploration of the world of wargaming and space security.  In any sense, though, it’s an original.”--Defense Technology International

“Unless we are willing to accept the fact that there are some out there who are fanatically bent on destroying us, Space Wars could be profoundly prophetic.”--Capt. Eugene Cernan, U.S. Navy (ret.), pilot for Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and commander of Apollo 17

“The hair on your neck will rise as you absorb the latent danger facing the United States as revealed in Space Wars.  The utterly believable, totally logical premise is terrifying, and the book should be made required reading by Congress.  As Space Wars makes clear, we are on the edge of a low-tech catastrophe that will wipe out our high-tech advantages.”--Col. Walter J. Boyne, U.S. Air Force (ret.), New York Times bestselling author of Supersonic Thunder

Space Wars is a realistic, often startling behind-the-scenes account of military space strategies and the mounting geopolitical threats in our world today.  It will leave you gazing toward space with a new understanding of the great battlefield just beyond our hemisphere and the critical role it plays in the future of mankind.”--Lt. Governor Jane Norton, State of Colorado, delegate to the Aerospace States Association

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About the Author

Michael Coumatos, William Scott, William J. Birnes

MICHAEL COUMATOS is a former U.S. Navy test pilot, ship's captain, and commodore; U.S. Space Command director of wargaming; and a National Security Council counterterrorism advisor.

WILLIAM B. SCOTT is a retired bureau chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology and a nine-year Air force veteran who served as aircrew on nuclear sampling missions. He is a six-time Royal Aeronautical Society "Journalist of the Year" finalist, and won the Society's 1998 Lockheed Martin Award for the "Best Defense Submission." He also received both the 2006 and 2007 Messier-Dowty awards for "Best Airshow Submission."

WILLIAM J. BIRNES is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Day After Roswell and Worker in the Light.  

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Space Wars
Michael Coumatos, William Scott, William J. Birnes

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
September 2008
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765359001
ISBN10: 0765359006
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 384 pages
$7.99

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Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
April 2007
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780765313799
ISBN10: 0765313790
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 400 pages
$25.95

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Trade Paperback
Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
April 2010
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780765313829
ISBN10: 0765313820
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 400 pages
$15.99

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Forge Books
April 2007
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429920674
ISBN10: 142992067X
400 pages
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