New Tech, Old Traps: The Persistent Pitfalls in Military Innovation

Horns of a Dilemma by War on the Rocks

Jun 10, 202637:45Government & Organizations

National security scholar Herbert S. Lin joins us to discuss his latest TNSR article, "On Optimism About New Military Technologies." Lin argues that political incentives and cognitive traps like the "fallacy of the last...

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