2020: World of War
Paul Cornish and Kingsley Donaldson
Hachette
298 pages; Rs 699
In spite of the bewildering complexity of our world, predicting the future remains a delicious pastime for the global commentariat. So, we are told that driverless cars will take over our roads by 2030, a colony on Mars for survival (and even leisure) is inevitable, and that global warming will make the planet inhospitable over the next 50 years (which is when the Mars idea may come in handy, for those who can afford it).
Military conflict and strategy is a prolific sub-genre of this category, with
