Class: Nonfiction
Reviewed by Clifford R. McMurray
Title: Crimson Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Ultimate Frontier
Writer: Greg Autry and Peter Navarro
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Pages: 260
Writer: Submit Hill Press
Date: April 2024
Retail Worth: $19.99/$9.99
ISBN: 979-8888455166
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America received its first house race with the USSR fairly handily, coming from behind after Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin’s flight to place People on the Moon in lower than a decade. Now, say the authors of this e book, we’re in a brand new house race with one other energy equally deserving of the title “evil empire,” and the stakes are simply as excessive this time round. Whether or not America or China wins this house race is but to be decided. Authors Greg Autry and Peter Navarro argue that “Area Race 2.0” is a race America can’t afford to lose. They’re unapologetic in calling out the Chinese language authorities as imperialist, expansionist, and authoritarian, and claiming that if China wins the present house race it can use the ability that victory offers them to dominate the world, to the sorrow and detriment of freedom-loving folks in all places.
The authors start with a survey of the various advantages we at present obtain from house, providers so intimately interwoven with our every day lives (climate and communications satellites, for instance) that we barely discover them. They record the technological advantages already knocking on the door (medication and different merchandise manufactured in house), and the limitless wealth-generating assets that await the primary nations to mine the Moon and asteroids. They then proceed to stroll by means of the historical past of the US in house earlier than, throughout and after the primary house race, reaching again so far as World Conflict II. Every chapter ends with a “Classes Realized” part pointing to the insurance policies America must undertake with the intention to stay first in house.
All that is very nicely, nevertheless it covers floor that has been coated many instances earlier than in different books, materials that almost all NSS readers know fairly nicely. However with a title like “Crimson Moon Rising,” I believe it’s honest to say that almost all readers would anticipate to study extra in regards to the Chinese language house efforts than about American house historical past. China’s house story is the one we’re a lot much less accustomed to. It’s a narrative that deserves greater than only a “by the way in which” couple of chapters. I believe the authors are completely proper: as long as it stays a communist dictatorship, China supremacy in house is an existential menace to freedom. That being the case, we should always learn much more about what our geopolitical enemy has achieved, and what it plans to do. The steadiness of the e book appears off.
As a historical past of how we received to the place we’re in house at this level, and an argument of why house is now an indispensable a part of our financial life and worthy of additional funding, this e book is an effective thumbnail overview for anybody unfamiliar with the topic. In reality, it’s an excellent e book to present to somebody you wish to educate in regards to the significance of house to everybody’s future. However devoting a lot of the e book to those topics, and so comparatively little to speaking about what China has achieved and is doing to beat us within the second house race, makes its title greater than a tiny bit deceptive. The subtitle of the e book is way more descriptive of its contents.
© 2024 Clifford R. McMurray
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