‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war

As the car with the blacked-out windows came to a halt in a sidestreet near Tübingen’s botanical gardens, keen-eyed passersby may have noticed something unusual about its numberplate. In Germany, the first few letters usually denote the municipality where a vehicle is registered. The letter Y, however, is reserved for members of the armed forces. Military men are a rare, not to say unwelcome, sigh

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"It turns out they are much like their ancient counterparts: they prefer not to know."