Why Peter Singer Is So Popular With Both Military Leaders & ‘Grunts’

By Carl Prine (original source The San Diego Union Tribune)

“He’s a war strategist and a business owner, a bestselling author and an expert on mercenaries and robots. And for much of the past week, he was a major defense-conference headliner invited to share ideas with the region’s top brass as well as grunts on the ground.

New America Foundation senior fellow Peter “PW” Singer is probably best known as the co-author of “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War,” a 2015 thriller that mixes fact and future to describe how the United States, Russia and China might battle on the ground, at sea, in the air and throughout cyberspace. But he’s also an international thought leader sought out for his views on espionage, technology and politics.”

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