technology http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en SWJ Book Review − Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/swj-book-review-power-people-how-open-technological-innovation-arming-tomorrows-terrorists <span>SWJ Book Review − Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists</span> <span><span>ZFTWARNING</span></span> <span>Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:02pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Review of "Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists" by Audrey Kurth Cronin</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/swj-book-review-power-people-how-open-technological-innovation-arming-tomorrows-terrorists" rel="tag" title="SWJ Book Review − Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about SWJ Book Review − Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:02:27 +0000 ZFTWARNING 141503 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com The Battle of the World’s Most Advanced Microchips http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/battle-worlds-most-advanced-microchips <span>The Battle of the World’s Most Advanced Microchips </span> <span><span>Riley.C.Murray</span></span> <span>Tue, 09/28/2021 - 5:41am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Geopolitics determines the type of cell phone you carry, the car you drive, and the computer you use. The all-consuming power of nation-state actor rivalries in the international arena shapes the structural paradigm that drives trade and politics. This is the invisible hand of the global economy. And so it goes with China, microprocessors, and American national security. </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/battle-worlds-most-advanced-microchips" rel="tag" title="The Battle of the World’s Most Advanced Microchips " hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Battle of the World’s Most Advanced Microchips </span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/battle-worlds-most-advanced-microchips#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">1 comment</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/404/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1683780863" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:41:14 +0000 Riley.C.Murray 139957 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party? http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/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="/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="/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="/taxonomy/term/404/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 SWJ Book Review – Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/swj-book-review-burn-novel-real-robotic-revolution <span>SWJ Book Review – Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution </span> <span><span>ZFTWARNING</span></span> <span>Fri, 07/03/2020 - 12:06am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Review of P.W. Singer and August Cole's "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution." </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/swj-book-review-burn-novel-real-robotic-revolution" rel="tag" title="SWJ Book Review – Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution " hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about SWJ Book Review – Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution </span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/swj-book-review-burn-novel-real-robotic-revolution#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">1 comment</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/404/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1632404992" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:06:31 +0000 ZFTWARNING 138295 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Terrorism and Technology: The Front End http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/terrorism-and-technology-front-end <span>Terrorism and Technology: The Front End</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Thu, 08/15/2019 - 3:30pm</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Despite the fact that there is a robust conversation regarding “terrorism and technology,” that discussion is – as near as we can tell – uniformly about the back end, that is to say exclusively addressing the dissemination of what terrorists have already produced. We have found virtually nothing in the popular press and nothing at all in the academic literature about the technology involved in the production of the materials that are being distributed.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/terrorism-and-technology-front-end" rel="tag" title="Terrorism and Technology: The Front End" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Terrorism and Technology: The Front End</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/terrorism-and-technology-front-end#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">1 comment</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/404/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1632571512" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:30:18 +0000 SWJED 123992 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/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 Moving the Needle of Pentagon Reform http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/moving-the-needle-of-pentagon-reform <article data-history-node-id="13031" role="article" class="article teaser clearfix"> <h2> <a href="/jrnl/art/moving-the-needle-of-pentagon-reform" rel="bookmark"><span>Moving the Needle of Pentagon Reform</span> </a> </h2> <footer> <article> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="masquerade.callbacks:renderCacheLink" arguments="0=4602" token="li9VR0E5-FF9KrR1LgslkT0pfqnKTGJRP821iSGfWSM"></drupal-render-placeholder></article> <div class="author"> <span>Mon, 07/30/2012 - 5:51am</span> </div> </footer> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> It does not matter if one shows courage or leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan, if they return to meekly let the military industrial complex’s moral corruption continue.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/moving-the-needle-of-pentagon-reform" rel="tag" title="Moving the Needle of Pentagon Reform" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Moving the Needle of Pentagon Reform</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> <h2>About the Author(s)</h2> <div class="views-element-container form-group"></div> </div> </article> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:51:21 +0000 Peter J. Munson 13031 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/disruptive-technology-and-reforming-the-pentagon-establishment%E2%80%94part-ii <span>Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II</span> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Mon, 07/16/2012 - 5:57am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> How the MRAP was pushed past the objections of the Pentagon Establishment.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/disruptive-technology-and-reforming-the-pentagon-establishment%E2%80%94part-ii" rel="tag" title="Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Disruptive Technology and Reforming the Pentagon Establishment—Part II</span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/disruptive-technology-and-reforming-the-pentagon-establishment%E2%80%94part-ii#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">9 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/404/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1342988766" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:57:54 +0000 Peter J. Munson 12975 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com