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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We need a separate command for the same reason that we need cyber or special operations as a separate command.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. In class six we discussed unmanned systems and autonomy and how the advent of these weapons will change operational concepts and the face of war. Our guest speaker was General John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations. and its partners to mitigate that threat?

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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Ukraine’s military is not burdened with the DoD’s 65-year-old acquisition process and 20th-century operational concepts. Today, the U.S. It is learning and adapting on the fly. The DoD has not done either of these.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Final Problem Statement: How can we create an open, free Internet and maintain effective lines of communication in Taiwan in preparation for a potential invasion? compete more effectively through new operational concepts, organizations, and/or strategies. Class Organization. If you can’t see the presentation click here.

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San Antonio-based START Expands to Taiwan

SiliconHills

South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics, known as START, announced this week that it has opened a comprehensive Phase 1 oncology clinical trials program in Taiwan. START, which runs the world’s largest Phase 1 clinical oncology trials, now operates six centers around the world. The Taiwan site is its second one in Asia.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. In class six we discussed unmanned systems and autonomy and how the advent of these weapons will change operational concepts and the face of war. Lessons Learned.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

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