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Steve Clean Know-how, Innovation and Nice Energy Competitors


For 25 years as the only real Superpower, the U.S. uncared for strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. The nation, our elected officers, and our army dedicated to a decades-long battle to make sure that terrorists like people who executed the 9/11 assaults are usually not in a position to assault us on that scale once more.  In the meantime, our nation’s legacy weapons methods have too many entrenched and interlocking pursuits (Congress, lobbyists, DOD/contractor revolving door, service promotion of executors versus innovators) that inhibit radical change. Our financial and international coverage officers didn’t discover the four-alarm fireplace as we first gutted our manufacturing infrastructure and despatched it to China (earnings are higher once you outsource); then passively stood by as our mental property was being siphoned off; and had no reply to China’s net of commerce offers (China’s Belt and Highway). The 2018 Nationwide Protection Technique grew to become a wakeup name for our nation.

Nationwide energy is ephemeral. Nations decline after they lose allies, decline in financial energy (the UK within the twentieth Century); they lose curiosity in international affairs (China within the fifteenth Century); inner/civil conflicts (Russia within the twentieth Century); a nations army can miss disruptive expertise transitions and new operational ideas. One could make the case that each one of those have/or are occurring to america.


Joe Felter, Raj Shah and I are about to start out our second 12 months of instructing what was our Know-how, Innovation and Trendy Warfare class. (See all the category periods right here.) The aim of final 12 months’s class was to clarify how new rising applied sciences have radically modified how international locations battle and deter threats throughout air, land, sea, area, and cyber. And to level out that profitable future conflicts requires extra than simply adopting new expertise; it requires a revolution in occupied with how this expertise might be acquired and built-in into new weapons methods to drive new operational and organizational ideas that change the best way we battle.

This 12 months we’ve expanded the scope of the category to look past simply the impact of latest expertise on weapons and operational ideas. We’re now protecting how expertise will form all the weather of nationwide energy (our affect and footprint on the world stage). Nationwide energy is the mix of a rustic’s diplomacy (comfortable energy and alliances), info/ intelligence and its army and financial energy. The devices of nationwide energy delivered to bear on this  “entire of presidency method” had been lengthy  recognized by the acronym, DIME (Diplomatic, Data, Navy and Financial) and in recent times have expanded to incorporate “FIL”- finance, intelligence and legislation enforcement-or DIME-FIL. Given the broadened scope of the category, we’ve tweaked the course title to Know-how, Innovation and Nice Energy Competitors.

Our targets on this 12 months’s class are to:

  1. Assist our college students perceive how every part of our nationwide safety and devices of nationwide energy are actually inexorably intertwined with business expertise. We are going to discover the complexity and urgency of the impression of the 21st century onslaught of economic applied sciences (AI, machine studying, autonomy, biotech, cyber, business entry to area, et al.) in all elements of the federal government — State, local weather change, Division of Protection, financial coverage, et al.
  2. Give them hands-on expertise to suggest and prototype options to those issues.

Very like final 12 months’s class, this one has three elements – instructing workforce lectures, visitor audio system, and most significantly workforce initiatives. We’ll be utilizing the idea of economic applied sciences’ impression on DIME because the connective component between every week’s class.

Along with the instructing workforce lectures and assigned readings, final 12 months we had 20+ visitor audio system together with two Secretaries of Protection, a Secretary of State, members of Congress, Generals, Admirals and coverage makers. We hope to counterpoint the scholar expertise with related experience and expertise this 12 months.

Final 12 months, workforce initiatives began with a mid-term paper and completed with what was supposed be a ultimate paper venture. Nonetheless, one workforce took their venture, received out of the constructing, and interviewed and offered a radically new operational idea for the South China Sea. It’s an concept that has caught fireplace. So this 12 months we’re going to construct on that success. Groups will kind on week 1, decide an space of curiosity throughout DIME and spend the quarter interviewing key stakeholders, beneficiaries, coverage makers, and so on. whereas testing proposed options.

If the previous is a prologue, our college students, a combination between worldwide coverage and engineering, would be the ones on this battle. They’ll go off to senior roles in State, Protection, coverage and to the businesses constructing new disruptive applied sciences.

That is the primary in a collection of lessons from the brand new Stanford Gordian Knot Middle for Nationwide Safety. (Extra on this in later submit.)

Classes Realized

  • Know-how, Innovation and Nice Energy Competitors will deal with how our nationwide safety and nationwide energy is intertwined with business expertise. We are going to discover:
    • AI, machine studying, autonomy, biotech, cyber, business entry to area, et al.
    • In all elements of the federal government; State, local weather change, Division of Protection, financial coverage, et al.
  • Give our college students hands-on expertise to suggest and prototype options to those issues



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