HeyJaredPeter W. Singer
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Cold comfort (opens the original)
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The arrival of new weapons has often been followed closely by their use against civilian populations for strategic effects. Submarines, bombers, rockets; The Lusitania, Dresden, London. This 20th-century history portends that the emerging capabilities of the 21st century—cyber attacks, information warfare—will be similarly used against civilian targets. The challenge will be all the greater as extreme weather becomes more common. This month’s Fictional Intelligence narrative, set in the late 203
Shock wave (opens the original)
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What if the U.S. were ahead of China in hypersonic weapons development? Welcome to the latest Fictional Intelligence.
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Imagine an alternate near-future in which the U.S. military had more vigorously pursued the development of hypersonic weapons. When a major U.S. Air Force exercise deploys such weapons to Guam, Tinian, and Saipan, it surprises Chinese military leaders who believed that U.S. hypersonic missile development had been stymied by underfunded research, technological gaps, and a lack of prioritization. This month’s Fictional Intelligence is a “what if” thought experiment that takes the form of a memo on
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