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  1. Background Essay
    You Say You Want A Revolution?
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    You Say You Want A Revolution?

    To paraphrase the Beatles: Well, you know, you’d better free your mind instead; you may want a revolution but ought to settle for some evolution.

    March 15, 2017 by Thomas Donnelly via undefined via Strategika
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    It’s Not Just The Technology: Beyond Offset Strategies
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    It’s Not Just The Technology: Beyond Offset Strategies

    A range of breakthrough technologies are emerging today that have the potential to radically change how we fight and deter threats across all conflict domains—air, land, sea, space, and cyber. Artificial intelligence, directed energy, robotics, and machine learning are just a few examples. 

    March 15, 2017 by Joseph Felter via undefined via Strategika
    Moving Forward: The Need For Innovations In Technology And Strategy
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    Moving Forward: The Need For Innovations In Technology And Strategy

    Two broad sets of U.S. military strategies during the second half of the twentieth century combined ideas, innovation, and technology in ways that offset Soviet conventional (and later nuclear) superiority in arms and military forces. These strategies also contributed to the overall state of cold war, as opposed to hot war, between the two superpowers. Today, the Pentagon is hard at work on a framework to achieve military dominance over a far more diverse set of adversaries. 

    March 15, 2017 by Kiron K. Skinner via undefined via Strategika
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  1. You Say You Want A Revolution?
  2. It’s Not Just The Technology: Beyond Offset Strategies
  3. Moving Forward: The Need For Innovations In Technology And Strategy
  4. The Key Technological Breakthrough: Avoiding Death
  5. The Next Revolution in Military Affairs
  6. Defending the Final Frontier
  7. Technological Advances, Diminishing Results

In twenty years will there still be contemporary manned bombers and aircraft carriers?

No, both systems are too expensive and too vulnerable to cheap swarms of drones and missiles.
16%
Maybe, but computers, drones, and robotics will vastly reduce their crews.
36%
Yes, any new offensive capability can be nullified by an equal novel defensive weapon.
22%
Yes, but their designs and appearance will hardly resemble contemporary models.
26%
Total votes: 69
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