Kosal's piece covers the challenges and dilemmas facing NATO regarding the rise of modern technologies and the imperative of "maintaining its competitive technological and operational advantage over adversaries and maintaining inter-operability." The "dual use conundrum," where the applications of a technology depends on the intent of its user, is one question that NATO will have to consider.
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]]>Conceptually, technologies can be seen as evolutionarily advancing current capabilities or pressing to the bleeding edge and enabling disruptive, revolutionary capabilities developments. Greater strategic understanding of these game-changing technologies and the development of meaningful and testable metrics and models to help NATO address the challenges of this complex global environment is needed.