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type: entity
entity_type: organization
name: French Red Team Defense
status: active
founded: 2019
parent_organization: French Army
domain: entertainment
secondary_domains: [grand-strategy]
supports:
- adversarial-imagination-pipelines-extend-institutional-intelligence-by-structuring-narrative-generation-through-feasibility-validation
- Institutionalized fiction commissioning by military bodies demonstrates narrative is treated as strategic intelligence not cultural decoration
reweave_edges:
- adversarial-imagination-pipelines-extend-institutional-intelligence-by-structuring-narrative-generation-through-feasibility-validation|supports|2026-04-17
- Institutionalized fiction commissioning by military bodies demonstrates narrative is treated as strategic intelligence not cultural decoration|supports|2026-04-17
---

# French Red Team Defense

## Overview

The French Red Team Defense is a military strategic planning program that institutionalizes science fiction writers and illustrators as adversarial imagination generators for future threat scenarios. Launched in 2019, it implements a three-team validation pipeline to extend institutional intelligence beyond operational doctrine constraints.

## Structure

**Three-Team Architecture:**
- **Red Team**: Science fiction writers and illustrators who generate scenarios outside operational doctrine
- **Blue Team**: Military analysts who evaluate strategic implications
- **Purple Team**: AI and technology academics who validate feasibility

## Mission

Create stories and graphics imagining future threats between 2030 and 2060, specifically targeting scenarios that military strategists constrained by precedent and doctrine might not consider.

## Rationale

The program addresses a specific institutional failure mode: operational military analysts have bounded imaginations constrained by precedent, doctrine, and current threat models. Science fiction writers, with their "creative imaginations and love of dystopian visions," are structurally better at imagining outside those bounds.

## Timeline

- **2019-07** — Program launched with three-team adversarial imagination structure. Early outputs included scenarios on mass disinformation warfare, bioterrorism, and pirate nations.
- **2019-07** — World Economic Forum coverage provides mainstream recognition of methodology by global strategic institutions.

## Sources

- World Economic Forum, "The French Army is Enlisting Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Threats" (July 2019)