RAND REINVENT’S ASIMOV”S ” FOUNDATIONS”
Just kidding but this summary of a paper argues for an application of very long term planning models for ” robust ” policy decision making. I’m highly skeptical that computer modeling of this sort will have much accuracy before the advent of quantum computing which will be able to handle the fluidity of the interacting variables over fifty or a hundred years.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF MILITARY COMMAND AND CONTROL
The long-term implications of this are interesting. The projectory of the trend is that each individual American soldier will become increasingly lethal in terms of power projection, particularly as nanotech improvements are integrated into combat gear as well. On the other hand, the Pentagon has to be careful that when fighting an enemy with access to first rate technology that we aren’t creating small units that are the sigint equivalent of mobile Christmas trees leaking data, microwaves and electromagnetic waves when stealth and surprise are required.
Zenpundit is a blog dedicated to exploring the intersections of foreign policy, history, military theory, national security,strategic thinking, futurism, cognition and a number of other esoteric pursuits.
Customized Web Site & Blog Design
