{"id":9945,"date":"2017-03-16T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9945"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:26:27","slug":"you-say-you-want-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say You Want A Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Donnelly<\/p>\n

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To paraphrase the Beatles: Well, you know, you\u2019d better free your mind instead; you may want a revolution but ought to settle for some evolution.<\/p>\n

It is an article of revealed religion among defense elites that \u201cwe live in a relentlessly changing and fiercely competitive world.\u201d Those words were from former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, once a physicist and someone deeply imbued with the idea that technological change and competition were the elements propelling change, and that those who failed to \u201cinnovate\u201d were doomed to defeat: \u201cToday\u2019s era of military competition is characterized by the additional variables of speed and agility, such that leading the race now frequently depends on who can out-innovate faster than everyone else, and even change the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/you-say-you-want-revolution-2<\/p>\n

NOTE: Strategika<\/i><\/span>\u00a0is an online journal produced by the Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict at the Hoover Institution. Victor Davis Hanson chairs the Military History Working Group with counsel from Bruce S. Thornton and David L. Berkey, along with collaboration form the group\u2019s distinguished scholars, military historians, analysts, journalists, and military officers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Donnelly   To paraphrase the Beatles: Well, you know, you\u2019d better free your mind instead; you may want a revolution but ought to settle for some evolution. It is an article of revealed religion among defense elites that \u201cwe live in a relentlessly changing and fiercely competitive world.\u201d Those words were from former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[958,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Ap","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12436,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":9945,"position":0},"title":"How Cultural Revolutions Die \u2014 or Not","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Unlike\u00a0coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don\u2019t just change governments or leaders. 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