War of the Worlds: New Millennium

Blurb

War of the Worlds: New Millennium is a science fiction novel by Douglas Niles, released in 2005 by Tor Books.
After the most recent unmanned mission to Mars inexplicably fails, interest in the Red Planet is still high. The whole world watches as a bright spot of light appears daily on the Martian surface. As they continue, theories abound about what is causing it. Telescopes pick up movement in space: something came from Mars and is headed towards Earth.
As explained in the Author's Note of the novel, H. G. Wells wrote the original The War of the Worlds prior to any modern military conflict. This novel is the Martian invasion of Earth in 2005, in effect updating the Martians and the military’s actual and doctrinal responses.