Editor’s note: The following story by Nikolas Katsimpras was the winner of the Art of Future Warfare project “Great War” war-art challenge that called for a front-page style dispatch from the outbreak of the next major global conflict.
CLICK! CLACK! DING! After more than 40 years, the vintage thumping sound of dusty Underwood, Olivetti and Remington typewriters filled, once again, the New York Gazette editorial room. Looking down the rows of desks, the gloomy floor is filled with the flickering light of hundreds of candles bouncing off the lifeless, pitch-black computer screens.
Today is the 24th day of continuous blackouts in New York, Washington DC, Moscow and hundreds more cities worldwide. It is considered to be only the beginning of a spiraling conflict. Who could have imagined though, that the greatest escalation of the 21st century might have started with a single cup of coffee?
Read the full story at the Art of Future Warfare site…
Dr. Bud Martin 
Pat Filbert 
Ryan Evans 
What someone can imagine can also be countered (even Musliims). The threat to U.S. is more likely from jihadists. The mutual destruction principles are dominant in any future confrontations by economically active states. It is the crazy religion directed suicidal instruments of imams that is our principal problem.
Dislike having to go to other sites via internal links; especially when the other site gets blocked due to restriction placed on servers at work. If you’re going to post a story, post the story not a “grabber” and then a link to another site
Hey Pat: We cannot be held responsible for what your organization chooses to block, nor can we predict that they have it blocked. It’s a legitimate website, so it seems the problem is with your organization’s info security rather than what we choose to link to. Having said that, I understand why you’re frustrated. We post full articles when we have permission to do so. We don’t always. In this case, we only had permission to post a partial piece.
Ryan, not holding you responsible for what my military work site choses to block (they block on base legitimate sites as well); however, a disclaimer that you don’t have the full article and/or have not been granted permission to post the full article would be helpful.
I’ve gotten links to articles from other professional forums that do the same thing where you hit the link and a “for only $xxx you can read/continue this article” announcement pops up.