Strategy, technology, industry and politics: Challenges for the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Authors
Becker, Jordan
Woodaz, Joshua
Anderson, Wendy
Issue Date
2023-11-23
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Journal articles
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Policy , Strategy , Technology , Defense Industry , Alliances
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Abstract
This article introduces nine essays capturing panel discussions at the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy on 8–9 February 2023, in support of the Office of the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. These essays were selected from among 31 panel essays to represent central defense issues: alliance management, technology in conflict, defense industrial policy, and the domestic politics of defense strategy. The participants asked one another how each of these challenges were likely to shape international order and ordering, and how the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could best prepare. The authors of this introductory essay argue that while the constellation of challenges outlined by the nine essays in this special section are clearly daunting, they are not totally unprecedented, and the US and its allies have tools at their disposal to respond effectively. US strategists may need to focus more on the domestic sources of foreign and security policies in allies and adversaries alike and implement emerging technologies alongside time-tested human tools of statecraft, all while rebuilding US and allied defense industrial bases amid complex and conflictual domestic political economies.
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Becker, J., Woodaz, J., & Anderson, W. (2024). Strategy, technology, industry and politics: Challenges for the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defence Studies, 24(1), 107–113
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Taylor & Francis