The Guardian: ‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/project-cassandra-plan-to-use-novels-to-predict-next-war

"I just read books!"

Three Days of the Condor.   1975.

https://youtu.be/l7-rpI0RrQU

Life imitates art.  46 years later.