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/

I deliberately injected my story, “Challenge Coin,” with some ‘hopium,’ since I think we could all use a little optimism these days. And if certain things break the right way, some of my forecasts might be less pie-in-the-sky and turn out to be pretty reasonable. 3/