you know who loOoOoOoves FICINT huehuehue
Fiction isn't an intelligence discipline. FICINT isn't a thing.
I hate the term "FICINT" so fucking much.
FICINT is universally bad, Stavridis is mid at best, and Ghost Fleet is one of the most harmful novels of the last 10 years.
This entire 🧵 is an excellent start at describing just what Project 2025 actually will mean for people. I look forward to @DavidPepper playing it out. Truly useful fiction #ficintx.com/davidpepper/...
Finished reading: The Malacca Incident by Jack Newman 📚 An enjoyable thriller set at sea, but also in Canberra, Australia and in Washington DC and some other parts of the world. The Malacca Incident follows the FICINT (aka. Useful Fict... https://www.desparoz.me/2024/05/04/finished-reading-the.html
So, when the NATO Defence College said that for the 75th anniversary of NATO they wanted me to write a piece of “fictional intelligence” (FICINT) about what NATO might look like in another 75 years, I said yes. 2/
📘"NATO 2099 - The science fiction anthology"🚀👨🎤 🔭Imagine what it will look like 75 years from now, in 2099. #FICINTwww.ndc.nato.int/news/news.ph...
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I've had a FICINT novel percolating in my brain for over a decade now and this festive season it finally made its way into MS Word. Stay tuned! That makes 3 books on the go, at once. Everyone needs a hobby, right? 🤓
I have to say I thought it was among the least compelling in the “FICINT” space. Partially bc the retired officer co-author was later hyping it by disingenuously playing up real geopolitical connections in ways that I felt misrepresented the truth.