April 30, 2025
Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars
Air University Press has published Strategic Multilayer Assessment’s (SMA) latest book, Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars.
Forewords by General James E. Rainey (Commander, US Army Futures Command) and Sir Lawrence Freedman (Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London).
Contributing authors include James Giordano, Lauren Kahn, Sir David Omand, Andrew Gainer, Karl Van Orden, Jaime Lukos, Timothy Grayson, Michael Groen, Jack Shanahan, William Casebeer, David Huberdeau, Samuel Bendett, Josh Baughman, Ben Connable, Aaron Frank, and David Vernal.
Military and strategic success depends not on minds or technology but on the combination of minds plus technology. We call this combination the Mind-Tech Nexus, which we define as how human factors (e.g., will to fight, skill, daring, perception) will interface and converge with the technologies of our time (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, neuroscience) to help shape the character and the outcomes of competition. This volume brings together world-leading scholars and practitioners to explore how minds and technology are being—and can be—harnessed for military and geostrategic power.
Read the full publication from Air University Press.
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