Ghost Fleet Quotes

“He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn’t get the box cover, so you didn’t know what the final picture was. And you got only a few pieces at a time, not all of them. And even worse, you always got a bunch of pieces from some other puzzle thrown in.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“again: I live in lonely desolation, And wonder when my end will come.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Do you know what is America’s greatest export?” Links’s eyes narrowed. “Biggest, or greatest? Sometimes they’re not the same thing. Biggest by the numbers? Oil and gas. Greatest? Democracy,” said Links. “No, no, no,” said Sechin. “It is an idea, really. A dream: Star Trek.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Americans had an apt phrase to describe a situation like ours, where your strength grows but your options become ever more limited: Manifest Destiny. “Destiny drives you forward but ties your hands. Indeed,”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“How do you police an empire when you’ve got a shrinking economy relative to the world’s and a population no longer so excited to meet those old commitments?”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“You can fight a war for a long time or you can make your nation strong.
You cannot do both. —SUN-TZU, THE ART OF WAR”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“they also all knew from experience that the best way to accomplish something considered undoable was merely to bring the right minds together.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“retiring the planes created an artificial fighter gap, which helped make the case for keeping the spending up on the F-35, the fifth-generation plane, whose cost had spiraled.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Boneyard Flight had taken off with two dozen desert-worn KC-135s”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“They was Space Pirates.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Aboye,”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“When we make the selection of our final six, I would like to authorize further cognitive augmentation,92 and a couple other things that the JSOC93 meat department is now using with the One Hundred Sixtieth helo drivers94 and the Persistent Operations Group,” said Best.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“The worst the ships could do was torpedo a great white shark that had eaten too many license plates.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“America now had a new kind of logistical backbone the likes of which had never before been seen in war.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Mike winced every time he saw Brooks’s Mohawk haircut. Where did this kid think he was, the Army? Let the Special Forces wear pajamas and play dress-up all they wanted; the Navy’s uniform was meant to be just that: uniform.”
― P. W. Singer, Ghost Fleet

“Wal-Mart Headquarters, Bentonville, Arkansas”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“They had made the hour-long swim to shore without oxygen tanks,”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Are you then familiar with William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer?31”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

“Werner Heisenberg was, of course, thinking in the realm of physics and string theory, but the lesson also holds true here. In any interrogation, there is an observer effect, where the mere act of someone watching has an effect on the subject.”
― P.W. Singer, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War