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DESCRIPTION:SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Kendrick Kuo\, assistant pro
 fessor at the U.S. Naval War College’s Strategic and Operational Researc
 h Department. The talk will be broadcast live on the MIT Security Studies 
 Program Youtube channel. \n\nAbstract: Conventional wisdom suggests that i
 nnovation consistently improves military power. Militaries that oppose it 
 invite defeat\, but those that innovate secure victory. Innovation is cons
 idered a sign of organizational health because the ever-changing character
  of war constantly threatens to render existing capabilities obsolete. Con
 versely\, misfortune comes to those who allow the march of historical chan
 ge to overtake them. The notion that innovation and better military perfor
 mance go hand in hand is thus intuitive. My work challenges this intuition
 —innovation can indeed harm combat effectiveness—and identifies condit
 ions under which such self-defeating outcomes are more likely to occur.
LOCATION:E40-496\, in-person limited to the MIT Community
SUMMARY:Military Magic: Innovation and Combat Effectiveness in Modern War
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 ployments_and_host_country_public_opinion
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