Silicon Valley and the US defence department must work together

Ministries cannot deal with non-military attacks by themselves

This week Joseph Dunford plans to meet Silicon Valley leaders, and it’s not a courtesy call. The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is deeply concerned about the reluctance of American technology companies to work with the military.

It is no surprise that the military and today’s tech giants have trouble figuring out how to co-operate. But the kind of aggression that liberal democracies encounter today requires innovative defence that has little to do with soldiers and plenty to do with civil society. And, paradoxically, that can allow the tech world and the military to meet.

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