Volume 77, Number 2 (2024) Spring 2024

A graphic conceptualization of integrating quantum technology into the future Navy and naval warfare is represented by two legacy warships and a stylized molecule superimposed over streams of binary code. In “NATO and Emerging Technologies: The Alliance’s Shifting Approach to Military Innovation,” Stephen Herzog and Dominika Kunertova explore how NATO’s traditional schemes for developing, adopting, integrating, and standardizing innovative military technologies during the Cold War have begun to change (and must evolve further) in the twenty-first century to address both how the commercial and industrial base for new technologies has expanded beyond traditional defense contractors, and the radical nature of emerging and disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.