technological advances http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/ en Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party? http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/technology-adoption-are-we-too-late-party <span>Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party?</span> <span><span>ZFTWARNING</span></span> <span>Sun, 07/18/2021 - 6:08pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">NATO and the West are experiencing a reversed kind of revolution in military affairs (RMA). Today’s new technologies bear far-reaching implications beyond the conduct of war. In the past, revolutions in military spilled from the battlefield to the civilian sector. They had an effect either by directly impacting the result of a given conflict or through adoption of military technical advantages in non-military aspects of life. This time, however, we see an opposite trend brought by private and non-military, non-governmental actors. In their everyday lives, general publics and governments alike face military-grade technologies developed and applied by the commercial sector. And it is the private sector that enjoys exclusivity over these technologies; the military is lagging behind. This development also poses a significant challenge to NATO, namely its ability to deliver on its core tasks. If the Alliance wants to successfully continue its political-military adaptation to a world where technologies play a major role, it will need a new approach to decision-making, operational planning, and crisis management. The following article addresses some of the key issues the Alliance needs to consider as it navigates through the new kind of revolution in military affairs: 1) the changing character of warfare; 2) the domination of the private sector over the military in deployment of commercial technology with military potential; 3) and the interdependence of decision-making and modern technology.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/technology-adoption-are-we-too-late-party" rel="tag" title="Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party?" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party?</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/technology-adoption-are-we-too-late-party#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">3 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/index.php/taxonomy/term/406/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1683799108" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:08:37 +0000 ZFTWARNING 139753 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/dateless-discord-dominance-in-digital-dreamdorf-domain <span>Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Wed, 08/09/2017 - 3:54am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> In the year 2044, an artificial intelligence programmed character conducts platoon-level noncombatant evacuation operations simulation in a crumbling chaotic megacity.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/dateless-discord-dominance-in-digital-dreamdorf-domain" rel="tag" title="Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:54:56 +0000 SWJED 73654 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com