Citations:FICINT

English citations of FICINT

The use of fiction to explore future possibilities, especially in military strategy

• 2020, Florence Gaub, “On the Future of Conflict”, in CONFLICTS TO COME: 15 scenarios for 2030‎^[1], European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS):

  After all, this work is not science fiction, but fictional intelligence (FICINT): rooted in reality.

• 2021 April, Marzio Di Feo, “Overcoming Complexity of (Cyber) War: The Logic of Useful Fiction in Cyber Exercises Scenarios”, in Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC 2021) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings)‎^[2], pages 387–393:

  FICINT combines, in a certain sense, the ability to envision age and communication by uniting writers and graphic novelists with a rigorous and scientific process and analysis.

• 2021 June, NAVYCon 2021 Abstracts and Backgrounds‎^[3], U.S. Naval Academy, page 3:

  “FICINT” encourages individuals to envision the future of warfare by imagining combat scenarios and the actions of friendlies, enemies, and neutral parties under novel social and technical conditions.

• 2021 October 7, Brian David Johnson, Natalie Vanatta, Cyndi Coon, quoting August Cole, Threatcasting (Synthesis Lectures on Threatcasting)‎^[4], Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:

  FICINT, uses fiction to gather intelligence about possible futures. There is value in collecting, understanding, and acting on the kinds of future narratives we write.

Mentions

• 2021, Brandon G Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, “Wargaming for Social Science”, in Available at SSRN 3888395‎^[5], →DOI:

  The recent focus on “useful fiction”, or the more popular term FICINT (Cole 2020), betrays the field’s general inability to examine the impact of emergent technology without reaching toward absurd analogy.