The Future of War | WorldNow with Jim Falk

July 15, 2026 – Jim Falk talks with bestselling author and former U.S. Marine Elliot Ackerman about 2084, the latest geopolitical thriller he co-authored with Admiral James Stavridis.

Without revealing the novel’s surprises, they explore Ackerman and Stavridis’s writing partnership, the shifting world order that could produce unexpected alliances, including one between China and the United States, and why the book’s imagined future feels increasingly plausible.

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Music composed by Zac Harmon and Christopher Troy

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