The Marine Corps received 72 applications for the event from across the services and around the world, according to an administrative message released Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultimately, a dozen Marines were chosen along with four sailors and a Coast Guardsman. The 12 Marines selected include three officers, three staff noncommissioned officers, three NCOs and three lance corporals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What we are hoping to get is younger, creative minds who will bring fresh ideas of how we could take the [Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast]MCSEF<\/span> world and bring it down to an operational and tactical level,” said Lt. Col. Patrick Kirchner, strategic foresight analyst with the Futures Assessment Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The catalyst for this unique workshop pairing<\/span> was the 2015 Marine Corps Security Environment Forecast, published by MCWL\u2019s Futures Assessment Division. That report identified and assessed plausible future security environments out to 2045.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n It presented a baseline, some alternative futures, and a preferred future. Cole, who is also top dog in Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project, recently wrote about\u00a0was confident he could bring those worlds to life by combining military and sci-fi concepts for warfare.Marine insight with the skill of sci-fi heavyweights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “There is a growing conviction that modern warfare is best understood, and won, with complex statistics and models. Yet, thankfully, at the same time there is new appreciation that warfare is as much art as it is science,” Cole wrote in Atlantic Council’s science-fiction anthology “War Stories From the Future.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Comments from Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, kicked off the compilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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