2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavritis (ret.)

This novel, set 13 years in the future, posits that China has developed technology that allows it to "blind" US Naval ships and aircraft. A three-warship US Navy task force cruising the South China Sea on a "right of passage" mission is destroyed in a Chinese trap. The Navy sends more than 30 warships in a two-carrier task force to the area. It, too, is destroyed, leading the US to nuke a Chinese city with 10 million deaths; leading China to destroy San Diego and Galveston; leading the US to destroy Shanghai...but there's no denouement , just a gradual petering-out of the novel, with India emerging as a mega-power.

The sequence of actions/reactions is completely non-credible, the technology is wrong, the characters are two-dimensional and the writing is weak. How someone as distinguished and knowledgeable as Admiral Stavritis got involved here is beyond my understanding. The one value of this novel is to warn about China's global intentions.