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U.S. National Security in New Times--Steven D. Nixon
U.S. National Security in New Times--Steven D. Nixon
Pages 127-132
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For a generation we confronted the Soviet Union in a Cold War that ended with the collapse of that empire in 1991. Now, 17 years later, religious and ethnic tensions, independence movements, and terrorism have emerged as major security challenges, but our national security establishment has failed to evolve significantly to confront these new challenges.
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This is the innovator's dilemma -- and no company or industry is immune. Even though the current and future security environments demand greater agility from our national security establishment, we have moved in the opposite direction.
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. Although our national security operations are running at an exceedingly high tempo, I believe the government transformation we need to succeed in the "flat world" is near paralysis.
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Trends in biotechnology: soon ALMOST anyone can have a weapon of mass destruction A good example of the potential threat from globalization is the proliferation of biotechnology that could enable almost anyone with minimal technical savvy to build some pretty scary bio-capabilities. DNA sequencing capabilities are proceeding faster than Moore's law (Bio Economic Research Associates, 2007)
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We must make decisions, produce capabilities, and operate at network speed, not industrial speed. Our national security establishment's love affair with hard science, particularly physics, chemistry, and engineering, must expand to include biology, anthropology, psychology, and other so-called soft sciences.
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Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. NSF (National Science Foundation)
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