It's not a deep article, but the budget and direction of U.S military technologies are significant. On the economic front, there's some resurgence of military Keynesianism. The U.S. military at...
It's not a deep article, but the budget and direction of U.S military technologies are significant. On the economic front, there's some resurgence of military Keynesianism.
The U.S. military at least accepts the reality that both China and Russia currently pose unmanageable information warfare threats, in the form of communication system attacks and architecture compromise down to the hardware level.
I remain unconvinced that directed energy weapons will ever be more than a money sink which fails to secure sufficient advantage to justify the bloated costs.
The most concerning technology research expenditure remains autonomous weapons development; broader AI research for logistics and decision-making (AI-guided targeting?) could have some buried traps as well. [For one of the better horror stories, check out Peter Watt's Malak.]
Nonetheless, the U.S. is gearing up for a "next war", and it's continuing to pour a substantial fraction of federal tax dollars into ensuring a maximally aggressive global posture.
If it comes to a hot war among any of these three powers, we're all gonna get stomped - nukes never went away, and lasers aren't going to take them down cleanly. There's just going to be a...
If it comes to a hot war among any of these three powers, we're all gonna get stomped - nukes never went away, and lasers aren't going to take them down cleanly.
There's just going to be a resumption of Cold War-style proxy wars, with an added layer of information conflict.
It's not a deep article, but the budget and direction of U.S military technologies are significant. On the economic front, there's some resurgence of military Keynesianism.
The U.S. military at least accepts the reality that both China and Russia currently pose unmanageable information warfare threats, in the form of communication system attacks and architecture compromise down to the hardware level.
I remain unconvinced that directed energy weapons will ever be more than a money sink which fails to secure sufficient advantage to justify the bloated costs.
The most concerning technology research expenditure remains autonomous weapons development; broader AI research for logistics and decision-making (AI-guided targeting?) could have some buried traps as well. [For one of the better horror stories, check out Peter Watt's Malak.]
Nonetheless, the U.S. is gearing up for a "next war", and it's continuing to pour a substantial fraction of federal tax dollars into ensuring a maximally aggressive global posture.
As much as I would like to see a Black Ops II style future, complete with drone fleets and lasers, this seems like a tremendous waste of money.
If it comes to a hot war among any of these three powers, we're all gonna get stomped - nukes never went away, and lasers aren't going to take them down cleanly.
There's just going to be a resumption of Cold War-style proxy wars, with an added layer of information conflict.