Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2014

Disrupt or Be Disrupted: How Governments Can Develop Decisive Military Technologies

James Hasik, Byron Callan

April 2014

Atlantic Council

Abstract

Just what makes a military technology disruptive? How does one know who will disrupt, and who will be disrupted? How can we aim to develop disruptive technologies, and how can we spot them before others use them to disrupt our security?

In the latest issue brief from the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, “Disrupt or Be Disrupted: How Governments Can Develop Decisive Military Technologies,” authors James Hasik and Byron Callan explore these questions and consider the history and future of the military’s adaptation to groundbreaking technological advances.