NATO and Emerging Technologies—The Alliance’s Shifting Approach to Military Innovation

October 21, 2024
Stephen Herzog

NATO and Emerging Technologies—The Alliance’s Shifting Approach to Military Innovation

The following is an excerpt from the Naval War College Review.

NATO has long taken a top-down approach to upstream military innovation and technology governance––supporting the production of platforms and capabilities to counter specific threats. Yet, traditional partnerships in the military–industrial complex are ill-suited to many contemporary challenges lying at the intersection of technology and great-power competition with Russia and China. Today’s emerging and disruptive technologies are increasingly dual-use and do not always have clear military applications. Embracing the new era of defense innovation will require NATO to innovate itself.

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