Porcupine

When China invades Taiwan, it doesn’t start with words. It starts with saturation fire.

Missiles erase air bases before pilots can reach their jets. A hundred gray hulls and converted container ships surge into the Taiwan Strait, shielded by drone swarms and long-range rockets. The plan is simple: overwhelm the island in days, plant a flag, and dare the world to react.

On paper, Taiwan has Porcupine Doctrine—mines, missiles, uncrewed subs, and hidden launchers designed to make occupation too painful to finish. In practice, it comes down to people and code.Ryder Cole, a burned-out former special operations officer, is dragged back in as a “consultant” to a war he’s already watched the simulations lose.
Amara Liang, the engineer behind Mosaic, an experimental AI battle network, watches her software duel a ruthless Chinese system over the Strait.
On the ground, conscripts, medics, and civilians in the wrong towns discover what Porcupine really costs when the doctrine stops being a slide deck and starts being shrapnel.
From the first missile salvos and Green Corridor sea battles to brutal urban fighting and global economic shockwaves, The Porcupine War is a near-future military thriller series about AI-driven warfare, stubborn defenders, and what it takes to make an island too dangerous to swallow.

Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney, and Ghost Fleet who want their war fiction brutally realistic, morally messy, and impossible to put down.