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Max Brooks

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August Cole

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Art of Future Warfare

Jul 7, 2015

How to Write and Fight World War III

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare project on July 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for a discussion on what a major state conflict would look like in the twenty-first century. How would warfare be conducted in the new domains of low-earth orbit and cyber space?  What new technologies, old rules, and […]

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 30, 2015

Cole: How to Write About World War III

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for The Atlantic about his new novel Ghost Fleet and what a great power conflict would look like in the twenty-first century:

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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 30, 2015

Cole: This Is What World War III Will Look Like

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole cowrites for TIME on how his new novel, Ghost Fleet, portrays a hypothetical World War where an array of science-fiction-like technologies would likely make their debut:

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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 29, 2015

‘Ghost Fleet’ Featured in RealClearDefense

By August Cole

RealClearDefense features Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War coauthored by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole:

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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 29, 2015

Cole on ‘Ghost Fleet’s’ Depiction of Future Wars

By August Cole

US News and World Report interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on how he combines sci-fi and reality to portray future weapons and gadgets in his new novel, Ghost Fleet:

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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 29, 2015

Interview with Cole on ‘Ghost Fleet’

By August Cole

Doctrine Man interviews Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole on his new novel, Ghost Fleet, for a post on Medium: 

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 27, 2015

The Economist Features ‘Ghost Fleet’

By August Cole

The Economist features Ghost Fleet, coauthored by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole, a future-war fiction depicting what a conflict between the United States and China could look like:

China

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Soldier Systems Highlights ‘Envisioning The Future of Urban Warfare’

By Atlantic Council

Soldier Systems highlights the Atlantic Council event Envisioning The Future of Urban Warfare on how artists can help contribute to the national security discussion:

Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Experts project the US role in the future of urban warfare

By Brent Scowcroft Center

In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity will live in megacities. Megacities will serve as economic, cultural, and political hubs of international affairs—but they also will form the complex landscape of rivalry and violent conflict. Recent instances of urban combat–Saigon, Sarajevo, Fallujah—only begin to inform the epic challenge of fighting in our mid-century megacities. To […]

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Art of Future Warfare

Jun 26, 2015

Cole: The Art of World War III

By August Cole

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow August Cole writes for Vice News on an Art of Future Warfare event, which brought together a group of leading artists, as well as entries from a crowd-sourced online contest, to reveal the art of World War III:

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