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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

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August Cole

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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Art of Future Warfare

Nov 12, 2015

After the war: Veterans and post-conflict issues of the future

By Atlantic Council

On November 12, 2015, the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project hosted an event entitled “After the War: Veterans and Post-Conflict Issues of the Future.” The panel featured Dr. Linda Spoonster Schwartz, Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, and three acclaimed authors of publications focused on combat and what happens […]

Conflict United States and Canada

Art of Future Warfare

Nov 12, 2015

War Stories from the Future

By Art of Future Warfare Project

Download the Mobi version Download the ePub version Read the Book (PDF) *Epub files are supported by Apple (iBooks), Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Sony Reader, Android devices, and many more. Mobi files can be downloaded on Amazon’s Kindle. “The authors in this anthology invite us to shed the shackles that bind us to our current […]

Art of Future Warfare

Nov 12, 2015

The Art of a New Offset Strategy

By Steven Grundman

Our new anthology of fiction describes the wonders and worries of the Pentagon’s plans for human-machine collaboration. Today, the Atlantic Council is publishing an anthology of short fiction and graphic art it curated over the first year in its Art of Future Warfare Project. Entitled War Stories From the Future, the collection makes good on the […]

Art of Future Warfare

Nov 9, 2015

World War Z Author Max Brooks to Join the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project

By Atlantic Council

WASHINGTON, DC – The Atlantic Council announced today the appointment of Max Brooks as a Nonresident Senior Fellow for the Art of Future Warfare Project, which is an initiative of the Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. Brooks is the acclaimed author and screenwriter of works such as World War Z: An Oral History […]

Crisis Management National Security

Art of Future Warfare

Oct 9, 2015

Cole: Here’s How World War III Could Start Tomorrow

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole writes for The Telegraph on how a small conflict could spark the world’s next great power war:

Art of Future Warfare

Oct 6, 2015

Cole: When the Pentagon Comes Knocking: An Open Letter to Silicon Valley

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for TechCrunch on the Department of Defense hoping to increase defense innovation with Silicon Valley:

Art of Future Warfare

Sep 23, 2015

To cyber the kill chain, cyber the supply chain

By James Hasik

When safeguarding the global commons, should we rely on it less? Defense Secretary Ashton Carter would like to stop buying and launching navigation satellites—at least as a military project. Sure, Lockheed is testing GPS III, and a team at the University of Texas is working on centimetric accuracy without differential. Through the MEOSAR project, the Canadian military […]

Cybersecurity Defense Industry

Art of Future Warfare

Sep 8, 2015

Cole on Ghost Fleet

By August Cole

Morning Consult interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on his new book Ghost Fleet coauthored with Peter Singer: 

China

Art of Future Warfare

Aug 27, 2015

Cole: Flight Plan

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for Slate on the importance of Silicon Valley to the future of military planning:

Art of Future Warfare

Aug 7, 2015

Cole: How Fiction Can Reveal the Horrors of Future Wars

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for Wired on the role of fiction in illustrating the real threats posed by emerging technology in future warfare:

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