A Case for Hacking for Defense at the Service Academies
In a new editorial for the Modern Warfare Institute at West Point, Tip Myers, Partner at Marque Ventures, alongside Justin Fanelli, and Major Caleb Stenholm, highlight the critical role Hacking for Defense (H4D) can and should play in modern military education.
“To win, the US military cannot lean on figure-it-out adaptability, collateral billets, a blizzard of innovation buzzwords or new organizations stood up without mandate, funding, or specialized education. Instead, the services must systemically educate leaders to understand how to rapidly iterate with using new technology at every echelon and must do so as early in officers’ careers as possible. Offering a full-semester Hacking for Defense course at the service academies would teach leadership, improve DoD’s ability to integrate the latest technology into the fighting force, and be easier to implement than defenders of the status quo might believe.”