An unknown epidemic has just arisen in the city of Urlia.
“
They call her the New Suette.
They don't know what it is;
it does not look like any known disease.
People are dying and we must act immediately before there is a general panic or a global epidemic
. "
The plot of this little science fiction book, written in 2010 by the Canadian Karl Schroeder, takes place in 2040. In this fictional city wedged between India, Pakistan and Chinese influence, the Canadian army is deployed to face a health crisis.
The decor is set.
The author is interested in the organization of forces, the functioning of virtual communities, the manipulation of information (a rumor accuses Westerners of being at the origin of the virus), the use of new technologies which allow soldiers to stay connected to each other in the field, to the emergence of transnational actors, to new intervention doctrines…
Crisis in Urlia
is a military study.
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