How Technology Is Rewriting the Rules of War

Technology leadership, not territory or traditional military mass, is becoming the decisive axis of great-power competition, with control increasingly contested and diffuse.

• China at par or ahead: Feldstein says China now leads or matches the US in robotics, biotech, clean energy and drones, overturning a decade-old 'China copies' narrative — though US still leads in reusable rockets and leading-edge chips (3-5 years ahead).
• Operation Spiderweb's lesson: Ukraine's DJ-and-tattoo-artist-run drone strike destroyed billions in Russian strategic bombers using thousands-of-dollars drones, illustrating cheap tech defeating legacy military hardware — a pattern US forces are relearning in Iran.

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