{"id":9959,"date":"2017-03-20T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:26:00","slug":"moving-forward-the-need-for-innovations-in-technology-and-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/moving-forward-the-need-for-innovations-in-technology-and-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward: The Need For Innovations In Technology And Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

by <\/span>Kiron K. Skinner \/\/ Strategika<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Image credit: Image credit: Poster Collection, US 2699, Hoover Institution Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two broad sets of U.S. military strategies during the second half of the twentieth century combined ideas, innovation, and technology in ways that offset Soviet conventional (and later nuclear) superiority in arms and military forces. These strategies also contributed to the overall state of cold war, as opposed to hot war, between the two superpowers. Today, the Pentagon is hard at work on a framework to achieve military dominance over a far more diverse set of adversaries. The defining features of this strategy are automation and artificial intelligence, and the core challenge is to determine whether international peace and stability are being enhanced or put at risk by them.<\/p>\n

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

http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/moving-forward-need-innovations-technology-and-strategy<\/p>\n

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NOTE: <\/span>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 Kiron K. Skinner \/\/ Strategika Two broad sets of U.S. military strategies during the second half of the twentieth century combined ideas, innovation, and technology in ways that offset Soviet conventional (and later nuclear) superiority in arms and military forces. 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