Christopher Kirchhoff
@chrismkirchhoff
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War
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Joined May 2018
RT @FareedZakaria: “War is now drone-on-drone.”. Top military strategist @chrismkirchhoff spoke with me about how the US is stuck in old mo….
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RT @EUAmbUS: “We win by having friends. We win by having strong alliances.” . I couldn’t agree more, Raj. Thank you and @chrismkirchhoff fo….
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RT @YahooFinance: Pentagon's Silicon Valley office founder @chrismkirchhoff on what defense will look like under Trump: .
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RT @cowenconvos: New ep! @chrismkirchhoff and @tylercowen cover the ascendancy of drone warfare and how it will affect tactics both off and….
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In the @nytimes , Raj Shah and I argue the arrival of AI on the battlefield is akin to the Maxim gun, the first fully automatic weapon, whose first use in 1893 foretold the end of cavalry, the vanguard of combat arms since the Iron Age.
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It is not prepared for the fact that artificial-intelligence-powered autonomous weapons systems are changing the fundamental nature of war.
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RT @cblatts: I very rarely tear though a nonfiction book in a day or two. I don’t remember whose recommendation meant that @chrismkirchhoff….
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RT @stavridisj: Excellent new book. My take: “An unnerving tour de force. Unit X always feels high stakes, the ongoing tug of war it chroni….
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RT @ericschmidt: Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War,” by Raj Shah and @chrismkirchhoff, is esse….
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Unit X Book | How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War | Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff | Read an Excerpt
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Join Barbara Bush and me as we co-host a forum on what explains national differences in COVID responses with WHO Director General Tedros, Antony Fauci, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and others.
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Out today with a policy paper on the strategic management of platform technologies, published by the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy. @SecureDemocracy .
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Looking Back to Go Forward: Strategic Mismanagement of Platform Technologies and the Race for the Future
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My Ebola lessons unlearned tour continues in this segment tonight on PBS News Hour -- I'm on 5:45 in:
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On Tuesday, President Trump traveled to Arizona to visit a Honeywell factory where the crucial N95 face masks are manufactured. The administration is pushing to move production of medical equipment...
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The Ebola Lessons Unlearned tour continues, in an interview I did with MIT Technology Review:
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An interview with Christopher Kirchhoff, who wrote a post-mortem of the US Ebola response for the National Security Council.
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It was always inspiring to watch Samantha Powers in action - she is one of the many hero's of Ebola who helped mobilize the international community to act.
Chilling piece on Trump’s dismantling US pandemic response capability. HHS warned in 2017: “the current capacity. is not likely to be sufficient for many types of infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., pandemic influenza and other respiratory pathogens).���
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Today in Foreign Affairs I share thoughts on the crucial period between the end of Ebola and COVID-19, echoing earlier warnings by Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, and others.
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What Washington failed to learn from the National Security Council’s Ebola report.
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I just shared some thoughts with STAT on how the lessons from Ebola apply to COVID-19.
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“We’re not ideally positioned to respond" to the #coronavirus, says the official who wrote the government's report on lessons learned from Ebola.
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Under @AmbassadorRice and @RonaldKlain , I helped author a National Security Council lessons learned report about Ebola. The 73-page study was made public today in a New York Times story on warning signals before the coronavirus.
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Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.
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