Your Supply Chain Isn’t Ready for the Next War

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Your Supply Chain Isn’t Ready for the Next War

September 12, 2023
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In a new era of ‘competition between democracies and autocracies’ — one stamped by dramatic changes in geopolitics, technology, economics and environment — the complexity and consequences of military conflicts will greatly increase.

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