‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war

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Three years ago, a small group of academics at a German university launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military – using novels to try to pinpoint the world’s next conflicts. Are they on to something?

and burned down libraries. Clashes of arms, he wrote, were usually preceded by wars of – and sometimes on – words, and therefore words could also be used to prevent them. He would relish the opportunity to put the theories he had developed in this field “into practical use in the framework of the German military’s foreign deployments”.

 

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CassandraWEIT Just read the article.... nice to know there are some people out there that understand and believe in the power of literature. To the team behind Project Cassandra... keep the faith... keep persevering... you're doing great work.

Marvellous. We're grappling with the worst pandemic for 100 years, the economic and moral ruin of the UK through brexit, the most authoritarian, lawless, corrupt govt in British history and 4 different global environmental catastrophes. And you want us to worry abt WW3!

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