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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

faces “two plus three” threats – the two peer adversaries China and Russia, plus the three – regional threats from Iran, North Korea as well as the non-nation state actors. Today the U.S. The strategy called for a pivot of our defense from fighting terrorists to preparing for confrontations with the “two plus three.”.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. America’s adversaries understand this. China is tightly integrating its defense establishment with startups, companies, and academia in “military-civilian fusion.”

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Book #9: A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

Jeff Hilimire

Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). ** A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea. Heart-breaking, haunting, and deeply insightful, this look at one man’s journey through his life in North Korea is like nothing I’ve ever read before. This book was INCREDIBLE.

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Mikkel Thorup, World Traveling Expat, How To Move Offshore And Eliminate Taxes (VC EP30)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Mikkel Thorup hosts The Expat Money Show podcast (I was on episode 155) and has spent over 21 years in continual travel around the world, visiting more than 100 countries including Colombia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Iran.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Compounding this problem of multiple new technologies is today’s reality that the DOD is facing multiple adversaries.

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Pyongyang, Vonnegut, and Depression

Feld Thoughts

North Korea has been on my mind lately (fathom that), although I had bought this book a few years ago after Eric Schmidt’s trip to in North Korea. I scanned my shelves of unread books, picked four that I thought varied widely, and dug in. I started with Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Because Iran, North Korea, drug cartels, tax evaders, and money launderers are using Bitcoin to evade sanctions, bank laws, taxes, and pretty much violate every lawful economic law on the books. They are already starting to do so, in China and South Korea, and the impact of this on Bitcoin value is just beginning.

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