Risks of New Technologies and Methodologies in Military Organisations

Abstract

As the defence environment becomes more and more dynamic, we have to face newer and newer challenges at a faster and faster pace. The opportunities of military organizations are naturally limited by their heritage. Their development is determined by their vision in correlation with their environment. The competencies created in reaction to the challenges of the past are limited in their applicability in the present, and they might become a risk in the future. Key competencies have to be formed and developed with a strategic view that considers selective forgetting, (i.e. the planned transformation of outdated tools, „knowledges“, attitudes and values into „cultural wealth“, an aid to keep our identity without effecting the decisions of the future) a possible tool.