The Blast of War: A Narrative History of the Third World War

The inimitable Mark Steyn has warned all of us in his book After America that, without American power we will likely see, “social collapse and a planet with no global order.” In The Blast of War, Adam Yoshida imagines what might result from a world without American leadership.

In the tradition of General Sir John Hackett’s The Third World War: August 1985 (and perhaps a little in that of Max Brooks’ World War Z), The Blast of War is a cautionary tale: a future history of a terrible war that all of us may be living through someday soon if everything keeps going the way that it has been.

Epic in scope, The Blast of War features a world in dissolution. Impeachments, coups, and revolutions abound as the United States, Mexico, Greece, Britain, Belgium, Turkey, China, Holland, India, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Germany, France, Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and others find themselves sucked into the vortex of war.

The first volume in a planned trilogy, The Blast of War features battles on the land, sea, and air - along with nuclear weapons and interminable internecine strife as the world attempts to unwind the mess that we’re all in.