Iulia Lupse
Modern military competition is no longer decided by who invents first, but by who can learn, adapt, and scale faster. China seems to understand this. Its system moves new capabilities from civilian research to operational deployment with little friction.
This is evident across Ukraine’s defense innovation ecosystem, where innovation is not a distant, lab-based exercise, but real-time learning under pressure. A system is built, tested in live conditions, brought back with feedback, adjusted, and sent out again almost immediately. If it fails, it gets reworked and tried again, sometimes within the same operational window.
Speed Is Becoming the Core Measure of Power. That pace feels unfamiliar in Washington today—and that disconnect could cost the United States the global technology edge. American debates about competition with China still fixate on budgets, white papers, and long planning cycles, rather than on how fast new technologies move from idea to deployment and spread across the force.
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