When everyone else gets as much data as we do, how will we prevail in combat?

in the news | September 22, 2014

Foreign Policy

Thomas E. Ricks:

In the future everyone will be data-rich, my New America colleague Sascha Meinrath said over his lunch of baked salmon last week. So, he figures, the key to future victories will be in "synthesis and the velocity of decision-making."

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