User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare confirmed to be set in 2054/@comment-3967954-20140503074712/@comment-4921618-20140503140450

Seems authentic enough for me. If you fast forward 40 years who knows what could happen?

By 2054, anything could happen. The "great conflict" in the setting could have changed how military engagement work. Anything could happen.