Innovation & procurement... Why Pentagon/MoD are high-friction-high-latency-low-performance?... RMA/'military-technical revolution'... Why successes get cancelled... A2/AD... Russia... China...| dominiccummings.substack.com
‘The combination of physics and politics could render the surface of the earth uninhabitable… [Technological progress] gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the hi…| Dominic Cummings's Blog
How the British deep state organised to defeat Napoleon... Intelligence. Procurement. Manufacturing capacity. Technology. Civil service reform. Balance of Power...| dominiccummings.substack.com
Lessons from/for the deep state for those thinking about AI, power, geopolitics and security| dominiccummings.substack.com
RV Jones's classic Memoir... Science is cumulative, the lessons of politics are cyclical, endlessly forgotten and re-learned... Whitehall is in 'forgot & don't want to re-learn' mode...| dominiccummings.substack.com
A largely unknown British hero, another case study in the unrecognised simplicities of high performance (and relevant to those thinking about nuclear war, AI-alignment etc)| dominiccummings.substack.com
What sort of character changes history? What and how do we learn from history? Why is it so hard to learn the 'unrecognised simplicities' of high performance? How did he approach problems we face?| dominiccummings.substack.com
‘People, ideas, machines — in that order!’ Colonel Boyd. ‘The main thing that’s needed is simply the recognition of how important seeing is, and the will to do something abo…| Dominic Cummings's Blog
‘People, ideas, machines — in that order!’ Colonel Boyd ‘[R]ational systems exhibit universal drives towards self-protection, resource acquisition, replication and efficienc…| Dominic Cummings's Blog
'Politics is the womb in which war develops'... Errors in politics and strategy dwarf errors in operations and tactics... Relevance for UKR... Seventeen Moments of Spring...| dominiccummings.substack.com