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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  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. Class Organization. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. Guest Speakers.

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

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. Our guest speaker was General John Raymond , Chief of Space Operations. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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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 – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 6 – Unmanned Systems and Autonomy

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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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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