{"id":35951,"date":"2019-05-07T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/07\/learning-from-the-mistakes-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:35:24","slug":"learning-from-the-mistakes-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2019\/05\/07\/learning-from-the-mistakes-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from the \u2018mistakes of the future\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How do you avoid repeating the mistakes of the future? By studying the mistakes of the future \u2014 at least that\u2019s the premise of an excerpt from Robert Hranek\u2019s short story entitled \u201cAngry Engineer\u201d posted to Army Training and Doctrine Command\u2019s blog called the Mad Scientist Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story, which was submitted for the blog\u2019s science fiction writing contest, follows hostility between the fictional nations of Otso, a close ally of the U.S., and Donovia, a near-peer competitor of the U.S., in the year 2030. The U.S. is compelled to intervene in combat operations when Donovia launches an invasion against its neighbor on April Fool\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\t