August Cole, “Useful Fiction and Future Warfare”

August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” storytelling, and serves as a Non-Resident Fellow for the Krulak Center at Marine Corps University. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning. With Peter W. Singer, he is the co-author of the best-seller Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (2015) and Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robot Revolution (2020).

A former Wall Street Journal reporter, besides being a Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellow, he is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project, which explored creative and narrative works for insight into the future of conflict, from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He also consults on creative foresight at SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence company. He’s long been a friend and contributor to the Krulak Center’s activities, acting as a writing mentor for the “Destination Unknown” graphic novel series, and a judge for several of the Center’s creative writing contests.

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