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Tango01 | 25 Aug 2020 9:14 p.m. PST |
"This article intends to argue that techniques from the writing of horror fiction can improve military planning. By focusing on such literature's capacity to unsettle the reader, this article argues horror fiction may provide a useful medium for the unconstrained exploration of future conflicts in ways current planning processes cannot. More specifically, the article focuses on leveraging two aspects of horror literature末the "weird" and the "eerie"末to expand ideation around future wars. Failing to imagine the unsettling potentialities of rapidly changing technology and its interactions with human agency puts us at risk of falling into conflict environments that are not only difficult but fundamentally horrifying. Challenging oneself to work through these thought-scapes as one is planning, training, and equipping is far better than when one is engulfed in a war that seems shocking and alien. The First World War, explored below, offers a sobering example of a conflict that truly horrified its participants due to their failure to grapple with the unsettling implications of their changing world. Such a proposal should not seem that strange. The strategic use of science fiction writing by the military has already become mainstream. The U.S. Army and the Marine Corps have been recruiting budding futurists from among their ranks in science fiction writing contests for years, and August Cole and P.W. Singer's Ghost Fleet末a fictional account of the impact of changing technologies on global war 末 appears on many prestigious recommended reading lists. However, the limitation of military science fiction is its emphasis on working through the closely reasoned impacts of technological change. As such, it tends to neglect the interaction of a changing material world with the values, practices, and emotional responses of individuals and institutions. These are just as important as technology末arguably more so末and planners need new techniques to explore such implications…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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