Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
by Christian Brose
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Balaji S. Srinivasan and Chris Fralic
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Brose writes with urgency, laying out how emerging technologies and slow procurement processes could hollow out military advantage. The book mixes narrative vignettes, policy reportage, and pointed prescriptions; reading it feels like sitting through a brisk policy briefing that keeps returning to one warning: adapt faster or lose relative advantage. Useful parts: concrete examples of procurement failure and argued priorities for shifting focus from single big platforms to systems thinking. Limitation: repeated alarms and prose that tilts toward advocacy make it feel one-sided to readers seeking balanced scholarship.
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From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wakeup call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And w...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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