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Go for it!

Hope you enjoy the book, that it is engrossing and thought provoking.

I tried to include a lot from a constitutional perspective regarding a lot of current war making practise (ie. War Powers, Declaration of War, Homeland Security, etc.) It is filled with a lot of modern and near future military technology.

Looked over Chapter One--and you just PEGGED the improbability meter right there. China and India in ANY sort of formal alliance? Either Pakistan got a little too uppity and India just destroyed them sometime between 2001 and 2004, or China made an extremely abrupt U-turn--and the Chinese gerontocracy has just about the worst case of groupthink I've ever read about, so that is exceedingly unlikely. (China is a consensus-driven culture; Mao and his personality cult are major exceptions to the overall flow of Chinese history, unlike Stalin and Russia.) Hopefully, you explain the circumstances of this strange bedfellows relationship in some detail.

Also, I would recommend reading Ralph Peters' essays on the Parameters website (Parameters is the Army War College professional journal): do not be overly afraid of a prosperous China doing something this stupid and crazy, but be VERY afraid of a China whose economy is tanking. Historically, states have taken big gambles like this when the alternative to a war breaking out is economic collapse. That may have implications for the plotline of subsequent books: the signs of economic collapse would need some foreshadowing.