{"id":52152,"date":"2017-09-21T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/21\/marines-sailors-pen-sci-fi-stories-to-help-plan-for-future-wars\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:51:03","slug":"marines-sailors-pen-sci-fi-stories-to-help-plan-for-future-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/modern-day-marine\/2017\/09\/21\/marines-sailors-pen-sci-fi-stories-to-help-plan-for-future-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines, sailors pen sci-fi stories to help plan for future wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prepare for fights against the enemies of tomorrow, the Marine Corps asked Marines and sailors to write science fiction stories about the future of combat, said Lt. Col. Dan Schmitt of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs it world-class science fiction writing? I\u2019m not a fair judge of that \u2014 probably not,\u201d Schmitt said on Thursday. \u201cIs it incredibly useful to inform how we\u2019re going to fight in the future because it\u2019s coming from warriors to warriors? It\u2019s incredibly useful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens of Marines and sailors participated in the project last year, said Schmitt, branch head of field testing at the lab\u2019s experiment division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marines were mentored by authors such as Max Brooks, who wrote \u201cWorld War Z,\u201d and August Cole, co-author of \u201cGhost Fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2017\/01\/11\/marines-study-sci-fi-to-plan-for-future-battlefield-needs\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/marines-formation.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marines study sci-fi to plan for future battlefield needs<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Marine Corps is using realistic science fiction to help craft a narrative to better postulate what future operating environments might look like.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe went out to the fleet and we said, \u2018Hey guys, if you are passionate about science fiction, we don\u2019t care what your background is, we care that you\u2019re serving under oath and you\u2019re a warrior and you care about this stuff,\u2019\u201d Schmitt said at the Marine Corps League\u2019s annual Modern Day Marine expo in Quantico, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018We\u2019re going to give you these guidelines: This is what we think the future operating environment is, and we think here are some of our challenges,\u2019\u201d he said.&nbsp;\u201cFor instance, a megacity that has 130-story buildings set 75 years in the future where there is a competition for international resources like fresh water. How will a small unit Marine operate in this environment?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budding sci-fi authors envisioned a world in which Marines use exoskeletons to fight and have drones deliver supplies, Schmitt said. They also wrote about future adversaries using genetic engineering to create an army of super warriors from cradle to grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science fiction has been a theme at this year\u2019s expo. On Wednesday, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. 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You and I probably won\u2019t see it. That\u2019s what we need. We need the reps because we can\u2019t afford to make a mistake in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmitt hopes to be able to implement the sci-fi project again, but that depends on how much funding the Marine Corps gets, he said. 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