Innovations & technologies

Commentary: Science and Technology, a Lesson in Strategic Thinking

Our nation faces a looming crisis — a dearth of intellectual capacity to understand or even anticipate the strategically relevant security implications of the ongoing science and technology (S&T) revolution.

Therefore, we must improve our structures and processes to recruit and, then, develop tomorrow’s leaders of the joint force and the national security team. We then need to apply those insights to the art and science of preparing for and fighting war, and maintaining and enforcing the peace.

While increasing the depth and breadth of S&T offerings at the senior professional military-education institutions (the professional military education’s war colleges) and their links to policy and strategy is important, the problem and its challenges are more comprehensive. We need to look at an integrated package of education and human-resource policies and approaches across a set of disciplines perhaps more appropriately focused on “strategic innovation.”