2036: The Year China Invades America

2036: The Year China Invades America

2036: The Year China Invades America — The dawn of September 11, 2036, crashed on America’s shores like a western Pacific tsunami as two million troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army stormed ashore. U.S. Navy ports, airfields, and ground troop bases were assaulted simultaneously as 400 Y-20 Xian Heavy Military Transport aircraft landed and unloaded thousands of combatants and vehicles. China’s newly-launched Zedong-400 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers parked just outside nine major U.S. naval stations and launched their hundreds of fighter and bomber planes. The U.S. surveillance satellites had been knocked out earlier, so the enemy’s approach was undetected. Federal officials were arrested, media outlets were commandeered, and all financial transactions were cancelled. Chaos reigned among the citizenry. China had been the primary holder of America’s burgeoning debt, and she had come to collect. Remnants of America’s underfunded military made its way to Australian bases to regroup and fight again another day. The country’s 400 million firearms in the hands of private vigilante militias presented a major challenge. China’s dream of global control, fulfilling their Manifest Destiny, was now achieved. The Exceptional American Experiment had officially ended.

Six years later, an aging defense researcher who had traveled throughout China long before The Takeover reunites with his scattered grandchildren, and tries to answer their piercing question: “Why did you let it happen, granddaddy?” He tries to explain that the country’s internal fragmentation, caused by political polarization, governmental dysfunction, deficit spending, changing demographics, and abandonment of religious principles led to the downfall. He tutors them on subjects that they had not been allowed to hear, like American History, socialism capitalism, democracy, totalitarianism, and America’s shining example. His now harsh existence stands in stark contrast to his once comfortable lifestyle of a university research faculty member. He exits this life with the hopes that the grands can appreciate America’s former grandeur and can do something to help restore it.

Written by James W. Cofer

James W. Cofer, Jr., “Jim,” earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1969, and enjoyed a 42-year career in radar, satellite communications, and foreign missile threat analysis. He spent 28 years on the Georgia Tech research faculty and worked for Harris Corp. and Scientific Atlanta. He retired in 2005 as Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) for this now one-billion-dollar enterprise and worked there as a retiree for another 10 years. His research experience prepared him to write this fictional novel which is based on current real-world political, economic, and military conditions.

He began his career as an RF measurement technician in NASA’s Apollo Program in 1965. During the Vietnam War, he analyzed Russian surface-to-air missile systems at GTRI and contributed to the development of electronic countermeasures to protect American pilots. With Harris Corp. in Melbourne, Florida, he performed antenna design and managed classified spaceborne communications programs. He directed Scientific Atlanta’s SATCOM Antenna Division for five years. He has travelled abroad extensively including Russia and China. In 1999 and 2001, China sponsored his lecture tour to their universities and defense companies, where he developed a keen interest in Chinese culture and history.

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he lived most of his life in Georgia, and now resides with his wife Joanne, in Birmingham, Alabama. They have a blended family of five children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

He holds one patent for a mortar-locating radar antenna and has authored over 50 technical reports and articles, numerous local history articles, and two books on family and local history. His books have received three awards. This fictional novel presents a story that he hopes never happens.