French military uses the help of science fiction writers
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Apart from geopolitical issues - competing with NATO and the will to subjugate Ukraine – the Russian authorities are fighting to keep the status of an energy superpower that supplies Europe with the necessary fossil fuels to maintain the existing system in Russia for dollars/euros obtained in this way. Regardless of Vladimir Putin's motivations for unleashing a war, there is no doubt that it is conducted in a "traditional" manner, where the final success or failure will be determined by the quantity and advancement of military equipment combined with an appropriate strategy and will to fight.
Meanwhile, there are countries – like France – that are preparing for conflicts yet to come. Agence Innovation Defense (AID) was established on the Seine in 2018. It announced recruitment to the team called Red Team in 2019.
The task of the selected dozen science fiction writers, futurologists, and illustrators is to deal with the prediction of events and the design of technologies that may happen in the future. All of this is subordinated to helping to develop strategies and technologies for the wars of the future: the conflicts that will unfold in 2030-2060.
The result of some of the team's published works – some of them classified for the needs of the army – is the book Ces guerres qui nous attendent. 2030-2060 (The wars that lie ahead). It was created several months. It includes four conflict scenarios prepared by the authors involved in the project.
