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The convergence of technology, information environments and great power competition define today’s operating environment. Enabled by technology, the sources, speed and scale of change demand agility. To succeed, national security and defense challenges can leverage several arbitrage opportunities: a broader consideration of human behavior, deeper knowledge of complexity dynamics, smarter understanding of others’ cognitive bias as well as our own and finally sharper operating environment capabilities. These also necessitate maneuvering the underlying conflux of increasing connectivity, complexity and uncertainty across most human behavior to master operational art. Capitalizing on transformational computing power, big data, AI and computational social sciences are keys to preparing for alternative futures for our defense and security.
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Abdollahian, M. (2021). Surfing the Conflux: Technology, Information Environments and Great Power Competition Convergence. In: Farhadi, A., Masys, A.J. (eds) The Great Power Competition Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64473-4_1
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