The Aporia · What Ukraine has that Japan and Taiwan lack

Ukraine's former defense minister is launching a new venture with a tech firm worth $440 billion. The venture aims to replicate Ukraine's system for developing military technology quickly, which involves a rapid feedback loop of testing and redesign. This system was key to Ukraine's success on the battlefield against Russia, where they were able to rapidly respond to failures and incorporate lessons learned into their tactics. Ukraine is highlighting this approach as a model for other countries to follow, such as Japan and Taiwan, who may be struggling with similar challenges in developing their military technology.

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Ukraine's former defense minister, Oleksandr Karp, has launched a new venture with Italy's defense minister in Rome. The project aims to replicate Ukraine's innovative approach to military technology development, which has produced over 500 grants and certified prototypes in just two years. This rapid experimentation process involves a feedback loop of real-world experience, including testing on the battlefield and incorporating lessons learned from failures. Unlike Japan and Taiwan, Ukraine has a system that allows for discretionary procurement and rapid iteration, which is attributed to the work of former minister Oleksandr Fedorov. The collaboration with Italy's defense minister suggests that the US$440 billion firm behind Karp is interested in adopting this approach. This innovative model could potentially offer more than just drone technology, as it allows for quick adaptation and improvement through real-world testing.

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What Ukraine has that Japan and Taiwan lack Ukraine’s former defence minister is launching a new venture that could offer more than drone technology. uncertain

that → lack → technology

Asia should take notes asserted

Asia → take → notes

Six weeks before Karp’s name entered the picture, Fedorov had been Ukraine’s youngest-ever minister. asserted

Fedorov → enter → picture

The day after his July dismissal, Italy’s defence minister invited him to Rome as an adviser. asserted

minister → invite → adviser

Karp, whose firm is worth US$440 billion, reportedly soon called him to discuss working together. uncertain

firm → call → him

Neither was calling for Ukrainian hardware. asserted

Neither → call → hardware

What they presumably wanted was harder to manufacture: what Fedorov had learned running the system that produced that hardware. asserted

that → want → hardware

Brave1, the defence-tech cluster that was essentially Fedorov’s brainchild, is known for fast procurement – more than 500 grants in two years, prototypes certified in weeks. asserted

that → know → weeks

Rather, the asset was the rapid feedback loop of real-world experience, which included soldiers dying when a tactic failed. asserted

tactic → include → experience

Military theorist John Boyd argued that combat is won by whoever cycles through observing, orienting, deciding and acting faster than the enemy can adapt. asserted

enemy → argue → observing

Ukraine didn’t just build weapons faster, it closed the loop between failure and correction faster than Russia could exploit the failure. uncertain

Russia → build → failure

Covid-19 exposed a civilian version of the same mechanism: emergency conditions compressed vaccine development from years to months by running trials, manufacturing and regulatory review in parallel because immediate human costs were moving faster than ordinary institutions could tolerate. uncertain

institutions → expose → parallel

In Ukraine, that loop was hard to contain within a conventional chain of command. asserted

loop → contain → command

An organisation built for rapid experimentation and discretionary procurement can collide with institutions built for command and accountability, even in a country fighting for survival. asserted

organisation → build → survival

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