{"id":9949,"date":"2017-03-17T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:26:15","slug":"its-not-just-the-technology-beyond-offset-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/its-not-just-the-technology-beyond-offset-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just the Technology: Beyond Offset Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Colonel Joseph (Joe) Felter (ret.) \/\/ Strategika<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Poster Collection, US 7241, Hoover Institution Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2014air, land, sea, space, and cyber. Artificial intelligence, directed energy, robotics, and machine learning are just a few examples. Significantly, unlike in previous decades, defense-relevant technologies are increasingly being developed in the commercial technology base rather than in classified government R&D programs. States and non-state actors alike are now able to purchase, copy, or steal advanced technologies and exploit their military applications in unprecedented ways. This proliferation of technology is diffusing military power, and the U.S. must re-calculate the current and anticipated relative military strength and capabilities of our enemies and competitors around the world.<\/p>\n

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

http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/its-not-just-technology-beyond-offset-strategies<\/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 from the group\u2019s distinguished scholars, military historians, analysts, journalists, and military officers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Colonel Joseph (Joe) Felter (ret.) \/\/ Strategika 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\u2014air, land, sea, space, and cyber. Artificial intelligence, directed energy, robotics, and machine learning are just a few examples. 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