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The authors explain that NATO is updating how it works with new and powerful technologies on the battlefield, different from how it did during the Cold War. They note that new and disruptive technologies bring extra difficulties for the alliance to manage. This means NATO has to rethink how it develops, adopts, and standardizes these technologies among its members.
NATOgreat-power competitiondisruptive technologiestechnology standardizationCold Warmilitary technology adoptionalliance coordinationemerging technologies
Authors
Stephen Herzog, Dominika Kunertova
Abstract
In the current era of great-power competition and the diffusion of emerging disruptive technologies on the battlefield, NATO's approach to coordinating the development, adoption, and standardization of new technologies is changing from its practices during the Cold War, but the nature of these technologies poses additional challenges for the alliance.