Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff

Broschiertes Buch

Unit X

How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

Beschreibung

“A riveting reminder of how hard protecting our nation’s security can be, and how much depends on the ingenuity of a select few. A must-read.” —Walter Isaacson, author of the New York Times bestselling biographies Steve Jobs and Elon Musk For readers of books like Chris Miller’s Chip War, David Sanger’s Perfect Weapon, and Christian Brose’s Kill Chain, an insider’s account of the formation of a new unit at the Pentagon, the Defense Innovation Unit, which is introducing a warfare transformation as profound as the invention of gun powder or nuclear weapons.

Autor

Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781668031391
• ISBN-10: 1668031396
• Artikelnr.: 71920390

Rezensionen

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year

"Riveting...an exhilarating account of how the US defense industrial complex has started to come up to technological speed by tapping Silicon Valley. The chronicle of [the authors'] struggles is especially illuminating about the bureaucratic 'antibodies,' vested interests and pervasive mistrust between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon that they had to overcome. It also often reads like a thriller....Ultimately, though, Unit X is not about cool gadgets. It is about the need for the US-and by extension, the west-to maintain technological parity with its adversaries, and so deter war. Neither is a given."
-Financial Times