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FicInt: Anticipating Tomorrow’s Conflict

By Second Lieutenant Allison Annick, U.S. Marine Corps
March 2021
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The face of the adventurer at the steering-wheel, darkly visible ever and again by the oval greenish flow of the compass face, had something of that firm beauty which all concentrated purpose gives, and something of the happiness of an idiot child that has at last got hold of the matches. His companion, a less imaginative type, sat with his legs spread wide over the long, coffin-shaped box which contained in its compartments the three atomic bombs, the new bombs that would continue to explode indefinitely and which no one so far had ever seen in action. 

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Second Lieutenant Allison Annick, U.S. Marine Corps

Second Lieutenant Annick graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy as a member of the class of 2020, where she majored in cyber operations and minored in Mandarin Chinese. At the Naval Academy, she was a member of the boxing team and she sang in the gospel choir. She is currently stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, where she is training to become a cyberspace officer.

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