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"Advanced commercial technologies offer new opportunities for defense applications that could greatly affect military power and metrics of military advantage. This is relevant when it comes to civilian-based technological innovations found in the emerging "fourth industrial revolution," such as artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, "big data," and quantum computing. Militaries and governments around the world are increasingly focused on how and where advanced commercial technologies, innovations, and breakthroughs could potentially create new capacities for military power, advantage, and leverage. This process of exploiting civilian-based advanced technologies is referred to as "military-civil fusion" (MCF). This book addresses MCF not only from a conceptual and practical sense but also comparatively as it explores how four different countries - the United States, China, India, and Israel - are attempting to use MCF to support national military-technological innovation. It will interest scholars, researchers, and advanced students of military, security, and technology studies, as well as analysts and policymakers in military and defense organizations"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Military-civil fusion: a conceptual framework; 3. MCF in the United States of America; 4. MCF in China; 5. MCF in India; 6 MCF in Israel; 7. Conclusions.
About the author
Yoram Evron is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chinese studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Pacific Review, and China Quarterly. He is the author of China's Military Procurement in the Reform Era (2016).Richard A. Bitzinger is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. His articles have appeared in International Security, Orbis, and Survival. He is the author of Arming Asia: Technonationalism and Its Impact on Local Defence Industries (2016) and the editor of Defence Industries in the 21st Century (2021).
Summary
Many advanced commercial technologies offer opportunities to support military modernization. This process of exploiting civilian-based advanced technologies is increasingly referred to as 'military-civil fusion' (MCF). This book addresses MCF from a comparative standpoint, examining how four different countries are attempting to leverage MCF.
Foreword
Examines the global interaction between military-civil fusion and the fourth industrial revolution, and how it affects military innovation.
