General Officer Education and Generalship: Technological Innovation

Chhabra, Tarun, et al. (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2020).
“This installment of papers for the Brookings Foreign Policy project ‘Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World’ assesses China’s growing technological reach in the world by focusing on both thematic and technology-specific topics.”
• Chhabra, Tarun, et al. “Executive Summary.”
• Brown, Michael, Eric Chewning, and Pavneet Singh. “Preparing the United States for the Superpower Marathon with China.”
• Wheeler, Tom. “Digital Competition with China Starts with Competition at Home.”
• Kania, Elsa B. “’AI Weapons’ in China’s Military Innovation.”
• Turner Lee, Nicol. “Navigating the US-China 5G Competition.”
• Klein, Aaron. “China’s Digital Payments Revolution.”
• Greitens, Sheena Chestnut. “Dealing with Demand for China’s Global Surveillance Exports.”
• Zwetsloot, Remco. “China’s Approach to Tech Talent Competition.”
• Imbrie, Andrew, and Ryan Fedasiuk. “Untangling the Web: Why the US Needs Allies to Defend Against Chinese Technology Transfer.”
• Moore, Scott. “China’s Role in the Global Biotechnology Sector and Implications for US Policy.”
• Rose, Frank A. “Managing China’s Rise in Outer Space.”
• Stefanick, Tom. “Secure Power: Gigawatts, Geopolitics, and China’s Energy Internet.”
• Khan, Saif M., and Carrick Flynn. “Maintaining China’s Dependence on Democracies for Advanced Computer Chips.”

U.S. Naval War College YouTube page. Posted December 10, 2020. 3 videos.
“Join the USNWC and Stockton Center for the 'Disruptive Technologies and International Law' conference where experts in the field will explore international law and multi-domain warfare.”

Feickert, Andrew. (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, October 8, 2020).

Hundt, Reed. (Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2021).
“The United States can create jobs, better compete against China, and at the same time address major social challenges if it leverages the emerging combination of technologies that will constitute ‘distributed computing’ to enable new, democracy-enhancing 21st century infrastructure. Three technologies—the Internet of Things, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI)—will increasingly come together to compose a new digital revolution. The resulting distributed computing will function as a hugely enhanced combination of the smartphone and the cloud, or as a computer network in a box. It can unlock massive opportunities if the United States invests at home and works with allies to protect democratic values. Distributed computing can solve some of the country’s long-term challenges in climate, healthcare, transportation, and energy.”

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research. (Washington, DC: U.S. House of Representatives, 2020).
“From our nation’s founding moment, innovation has been an essential ingredient of American prosperity and national security. During World War II, the threat of a Nazi atomic bomb prompted a federal commitment to basic research that transformed every element of American life, including establishing American technological pre-eminence. Today, neither that preeminence, nor the commitment that fueled it, are unchallenged. We live in a dramatically changed world. Innovation is happening almost everywhere, including in the laboratories of our adversaries. Threats are dispersed; terrorism, cybercrime, even a radiological or biological attack do not require nation-state sponsorship. And just as nuclear technology emerged to change the world 75 years ago, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biosynthesis and other new technologies promise to reorder the global chessboard and change the lives of everyone on the planet. The question for U.S. policymakers, and the subject of this report, is whether the United States will lead in the development of these technologies or whether we will follow, and instead merely read about their unpredictable effects in the media. Our national security depends on choosing the former path, as does our economic prosperity and our traditional leadership role in the development of the global norms, rules and institutions that disperse technology’s benefits and constrain its destructive potential.”

Katz, Brian. (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2021).
“The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) stands at the dawn of a new era of technological innovation and transformation unprecedented in its history. In this final report, the CSIS Technology and Intelligence Task Force set out to understand the emerging technology landscape, identify the opportunities and challenges to applying technology to intelligence missions, and generate recommendations that will enable the IC to adapt, integrate technology, and maintain an advantage over sophisticated rivals.”

Bahar, Dany, and Selen Özdoğan. (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2021).
“The productivity dynamics of Japan, in particular, are quite intriguing. Most developed nations have seen sharp slowdowns in their productivity growth since 2004, but the Japanese case is puzzling because productivity growth decelerated just as sharply there, even though productivity levels continue to lag well behind countries such as the U.S. and Germany.”

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