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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led and China ” New York Times, Jan. United States Space Force ” U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

The readings, lectures, and guest speakers explored how emerging commercial technologies pose challenges and create opportunities for the United States in strategic competition with great power rivals with an emphasis on the People’s Republic of China. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. How can the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Does the story of a superpower ignoring distant threats from seemingly weak competitors sound familiar from the class discussions on China? and China in the near, mid, and long-term time frames. Which of these actions would impose the greatest cost on China if implemented? Which could sway China’s decision calculus the most?

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Business Travel Decline Due To COVID And Environmental Concerns

YoungUpstarts

A few months after the world discovered the first Coronavirus case in China, a general lockdown has completely changed the lives of billions of people. The number of flights in the United States was reduced by over 70% in April, seven times more than the impact of the financial crisis of 2008. Environmental concerns.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

Chris was increasingly concerned that the United States was falling behind our adversaries and nobody was paying attention to the extent of the problem. China has specifically and explicitly focused on undermining the core assumptions on which the United States has been planning to project military power for 25 to 30 years.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities for the United States in its enduring strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals. On China’s activities and efforts to compete with the U.S.: should respond.

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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Usually, these offshore suppliers are in Asia, (India, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines), Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia), or Africa (Morocco, Kenya and South Africa). Examples of this for businesses in the United States would be countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, or Jamaica.

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