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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) Carriers were designed to be most effective launching a high number of sorties (number of flights) from ~225 miles from the target. For the Navy, a Horizon 3 conversation would not be about better carriers and aircraft.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Slides 10-12 led the conversation about the end of the Cold War & Collapse of the USSR. This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute. .