The Intellectual Edge: A Competitive Advantage for Future War and Strategic Competition

Abstract

The Military and Education: An Evolved Intellectual Edge Over the next two decades, most Western militaries will be smaller thantheir adversaries, with a declining technological advantage. Compounding this challenge, they will fight in a new hyper-technical, transregional, and increasingly disaggregated physical-cyber operating environment. Increasingly dominated by more lethal weapons systems and the manifestations of a convergence of information and biotechnologies, the future conflict space will largely be a technologically level playing field. Recent publications, such as those by the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States,8 have described how the technological edge that has been the preserve of Western military institutions for several centuries has declined.9

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1104926

Entities

People

  • Mick Ryan

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Best Practices
  • Biotechnology
  • Computers
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Military Education
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Professional Development
  • Security
  • Students
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Training

Readers

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  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Cyber
  • Space