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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

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. In 1991 we went to war in Desert Storm to evict Iraq out of Kuwait. Desert Storm and Space.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design 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. wouldn’t interfere. Slides 47 and 52.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

Steve Blank

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design 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. wouldn’t interfere. Slides 47 and 52.

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Why the Navy Needs Disruption Now (part 2 of 2)

Steve Blank

For targets over uncontested airspace (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, etc.) Carriers were designed to be most effective launching a high number of sorties (number of flights) from ~225 miles from the target. And yes, like any complex project they still manage to be over budget and miss their delivery schedule.).

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Preparing for Chaos – the Life of a Startup « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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Unknown Unknowns

OnlyOnce

Say what you will about Rumsfeld or the Iraq war, but this is actually a great and extensible quote. Second, you can design a culture so that information flows freely up, down, and sideways — so that people in your organization want to share information instead of hoard it. Leadership Management Startup CEO'

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We could design warfighting tactics based on knowing the tactics of our opponent. We could design and manufacture the best systems. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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