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A curious news item has been making the rounds recently: the military is now employing novelists and literary types to predict the future. The ground zero of this initiative—looks like a NATO initiative—is Tübingen, Germany, and it is headed by a septuagenarian man of letters, Jürgen Wertheimer, joined by the Bundeswehr and other interested armed parties. The idea is that wars of words start wars real, that novels especially should be put into, quoth Dr Wertheimer, “practical use in the framework of the German military’s foreign deployments”. More
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Martin Billheimer.