https://www.augustcole.com/speaker daily 0.75 2020-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604687480506-36FWPPKAV5O1QK9LDRIV/DEF-1.jpg SPEAKING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604688410349-FZICMPJUCY0DN6C82IRT/FORSERET-THUMB-1.jpg SPEAKING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604687928595-FUR8VLDCLIZ8MRG5JFF5/NATO-THUMB-1.jpg SPEAKING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604689303823-7HT38U2VDL8YD131Q04H/USNAF-THUMB-1.jpg SPEAKING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604692339805-UBS57Y6AEWKC4HVI8KFE/AWG-THUMB-1.jpg SPEAKING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604692632850-GFL1QWJM38G41P3V8PBS/AU-THUMB-1.jpg SPEAKING https://www.augustcole.com/books daily 0.75 2021-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596604471041-QCUDFSPTJK2NRLHHAW7M/burn-in-small2.jpg BOOKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596604500096-QK70V04DLPX42KVGYVKH/gf-2.jpg BOOKS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596604548277-YJP2MH0D8VVJ7FVH0DQ1/war-stories-small-1.jpg BOOKS https://www.augustcole.com/home daily 1.0 2021-03-12 https://www.augustcole.com/ficint daily 0.75 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604684265180-MGJXD5N5OSOI2JYZXH5O/Artic-NIght-THUMB.jpg FICINT - ARCTIC NIGHT The Norwegian Army commissioned a short story exploring conflict in the 2030s. Featuring ad-hoc national armies, Russia and China sparring over Norway’s Arctic access, and battle buddy AIs, the short story Arctic Night offered an alternative way of thinking about warfare in the High North. Excerpt from ARCTIC NIGHT by August Cole “They never, ever should have put the rocket batteries by the kiddie pool, she thought. Ingrid Torlund sighed at the boxy wheeled weapons, articulating quad launchers at each corner. They looked like giant upside-down tables kicked over by an ill-tempered god. No, the Vulkan systems were too exposed here.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604686739720-0U7TEPMJ09G9D9F0J6J7/RUST-REASON-THUMB.jpg FICINT - RUST AND REASON As part of the Defense Department Defense Innovation Board AI Ethics Task Force, a series of short stories, including Rust and Reason, were used by task force members to facilitate discussions about how AI-enabled systems might be employed in future conflicts for everything from close-air support targeting to directing entire carrier battle groups. Excerpt from RUST AND REASON by August Cole “US Navy Rear Admiral Tim Park swished the cold coffee around in his battered aluminum thermal mug, staring at the grounds swirling in the bottom. In some cultures, you could divine your fate by doing just this. Tasseography was the word. But Park already knew the future, he just didn’t know what to do about it.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604685184676-NT5V0SCYDR5MHL5769UC/UNDERBELLY-THUMB.jpg FICINT - UNDERBELLY To better explain the future of hybrid warfare as part of a briefing to NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, the short story Underbelly imagines how British and American commandos might use irregular warfare tactics that fuse live social media with long-range raids deep inside Russian-controlled territory. Excerpt from UNDERBELLY by August Cole “The major general had forged his 31-year career in the British Army by sheer will, be it through SAS selection, stultifying desk jobs, Iraq, Afghanistan, a PhD in Russian literature, and much more. But just getting his fork from the plate to his mouth required more strength than he’d ever had. Two peas, nested in cold mashed potatoes, perched upon the tines. The room’s sole candle cast a long shadow across the tabletop, the mobile phone flipped screen-down next to an untouched, perfectly creased paper napkin.” https://www.augustcole.com/as-seen-in-2 daily 0.75 2020-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596744445862-K57SZ36X7LV5JU4M143E/USATODAY.png AS SEEN IN 2 Cups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596744460635-T1DWLKG46UBSILRC9PKZ/ECON.png AS SEEN IN 2 Bowls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1596744430718-ZZYH0C19F0PLNJ6RR9NO/VICE.png AS SEEN IN 2 Planters https://www.augustcole.com/bio daily 0.75 2024-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f284467fc17a51241347079/1604647174774-BF9W5BEPFFRI3QOSC0FZ/Cole_141001_0631-3.jpg BIO - BIO August Cole is an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of “FICINT” [Fictional Intelligence] storytelling. His talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting on future warfare at SXSW Interactive to lecturing at West Point. With Peter W. Singer, he is the co-author of the best-seller “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War” (2015) and “Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution” (2020). He is a co-founder and a managing partner at Useful Fiction, which works at the center of narrative, foresight, and change management focused on defense and security. August is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council; he directed the Council’s Art of Future Warfare Project from its inception in 2014 through 2017. He is also an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute working on AI and future warfare. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, August is a regular speaker to private sector, academic, and US and allied government audiences. August is represented by Katherine Flynn of Calligraph for his novels and Michelle Kroes of CAA for film/TV.