Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. Let me be honest about my bias.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Their R&D groups and contractors had the smartest domain experts who could design and manufacture the best systems. North Korea. They can crowd-source designs, find components through eBay, fund through PayPal, train using virtual worlds and refine tactics, techniques and procedures using massive on-line gaming.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In response we developed the Hacking for Defense class where students could learn about the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community to solve real national security problems. One couldn’t hope for a better set of co-instructors.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

How do you drop those on North Korea? . Blinken : We found that defectors getting out of North Korea have much greater access than we thought to technology, much of it coming in from China. Then the question is, will their governments allow them to use it and if not, are there workarounds? .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

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