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Shane Smith: Gonzo-Gunslinger

YoungUpstarts

It would probably be a rare event for Freston to find himself in Yemen or yielding a machine gun to ward off terrorist threats. You’ve willed it to be through your force of life,” Spike Jonze tells Smith of Vice during their trip to Yemen to meet with Al Qaeda. Teddy Hunt writes about technology and business.

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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.) Here it looks for new opportunities within its existing mission (trying new technology on the same platform, using the same technology with new missions, etc.) that’s pretty easy. In Horizon 2, the Navy extends its core mission.

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

Steve Blank

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. 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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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Russian Technology Strategy.