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THREATCASTING SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLAS
 
 
Hidden Stratagem: Microtargeting - The Future of Conflict
The story you are about to read is about microtargeting. It does not shy away from a dystopian vision of tomorrow. The threat from microtargeting isn’t a massive open wound. Instead, it’s death by a thousand cuts from an unseen knife.
 
 
The Great Attack: Survivors' Tales
This is the story of the Great Attack. Where various EDTs (sometimes working together and sometimes singularly) were paired with traditional kinetic weapons in an attempt to create WMD-like effects.
 
 
Material Loss
As it has always been thought-out history, any technology that can be used to better the world, can also be used to do harm to people. In our future, nefarious actors have figured out ways to use these emerging technologies to disrupt the entire world order.
 
 
INVISIBLE FORCE: Information Warfare and the Future of Conflict
The year is 2030. Large swaths of the world are destabilized. Famine is rampant due to the aftermath of the long legacy of failed globalization. Citizens from poorer countries are migrating to escape famine, war, climate change, and lack of opportunity created by failed states.
 
 
DARK HAMMER: A Retrospective of Science Fiction Prototyping
Graphic novellas are a medium with a rich tradition of use by the U.S. Army. For generations, the Army has successfully used this medium for conveying important messages across the force.
 
 
Insider Threat
A concerned serviceman observes his counterpart acting erratically – plotting to cripple or contaminate the entire water system of a U.S. Army base. Suspicious behaviors observed over the course of a year point to a potential insider threat.
 
 
Quantum Winter
Adversaries have beaten the U.S. to the punch, acquiring quantum computing capabilities well ahead of the technological world’s expectations. The ramifications of the enemy’s advantage in computational power are felt by a team of U.S. Army technical soldiers during a tactical mission.
 
 
1000 Cuts
A foreign criminal organization has taken advantage of known vulnerabilities in network devices and online services comprising the global Internet of things. Violations of U.S.
 
 
Hero 2028
The year is 2028. Amid chemical attacks and global conflict, a rumored summit is about to convene in a secret location. Tensions are high. Rumors are rampant. A terror cell has infiltrated the summit and an attack is imminent. Who can gather the crucial information needed and disarm the threat?
 
 
Silent Ruin
Our science fiction prototype begins in the year 2027. Yugaria and Novistrana have united, crossing a red line for Razkavia. Tensions are high as both NATO and Razkavia conduct training missions on each side of the border.
 
 
Dark Hammer
Our science fiction prototype will take us to the year 2027. Things have gone from bad to worse on the Han Chiu Peninsula. Karta is under attack. While the east of the city falls quickly, the U.S. and West Han Chiu forces hold their ground on the west banks of the Tan River.
 
 
11-25-2027
The shipments from Fort Lewis were delayed two days, leaving Lt. Jenkins and her skeleton crew to supervise the load at the docks on Thanksgiving day. Without a second thought, one of them tweets, “Finally … looks like I will get some turkey! #hatemylife” … and the attack begins.
 
 
Engineering a Traitor
CPT Jake Roberts had always wanted to serve his country. In college, he was the only student in his engineering program to be commissioned as a U.S. Army Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.
 
 
The Future of Work
For decades, we have imagined the future through the eyes of comic book heroes — from boy-next-door Peter Parker’s Spider-Man to Amazon princess Wonder Woman.
 
 
Cisco Two Days After Tuesday
Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Labs is built on the notion that we must first imagine, and then create, the future together.
We know that we can no longer innovation in isolation.

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