NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility
When I was a kid, I loved Legos and Transformers. They could take multiple shapes and let me play out a million different adventures from the same set of building blocks and plastic robot heroes and villains. Why can’t I have that versatility as an adult in my arsenal of democracy? The answer is a flawed measure of effectiveness in modern weapon systems that focuses on single mission performance instead of fungibility and able to conduct multiple missions with the same piece of kit. In the wake of the recent NATO summit, the alliance needs to look forward and ask The post NATO After Next: From Interoperability to Fungibility appeared first on War on the Rocks.
When I was a kid, I loved Legos and Transformers. They could take multiple shapes and let me play out a million different adventures from the same set of building blocks and plastic robot heroes and villains. Why can’t I have that versatility as an adult in my arsenal of democracy? The answer is a flawed measure of effectiveness in modern weapon systems that focuses on single mission performance instead of fungibility and able to conduct multiple missions with the same piece of kit. In the wake of the recent NATO summit, the alliance needs to look forward and ask
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