Great power competition is no longer confined to military operations. It now spans artificial intelligence, space, finance, advanced manufacturing, cyber operations, autonomous systems, supply chains, research universities, venture capital, and strategic infrastructure. Understanding this evolving landscape requires more than words — it requires visual thinking.
Our DoDAF grade vignettes are designed to help analysts, policymakers, acquisition professionals, corporate strategy teams, hedge fund managers and defense technology investors quickly grasp complex interconnected strategic ecosystems.
Great Power Competition | A Visual Atlas presents a set of analytical vignettes designed to illustrate the major operational domains shaping strategic competition between the United States, the People’s Republic of China and Russia in what one senior defense intelligence official called “The Science War of the Century”. Each hand drawn vignette synthesizes open-source research into a single integrated visual model highlighting the technologies, institutions, and tactics that define modern rivalry between major powers.
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This book organizes complex strategic relationships into visual frameworks that allow readers to quickly understand technologies, institutions, and operational concepts shaping twenty-first-century competition.
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The Influence Ops vignette illustrates the broad ecosystem of influence operations that shape strategic competition between the United States and China. Unlike traditional espionage, influence campaigns operate across political, financial, technological, and cultural channels. The visual highlights mechanisms such as venture investment, academic collaboration and hidden cash payments, money laundering and crypto schemas, shell corporate structures, persistent cyber operations, and strategic land acquisitions near sensitive infrastructure and military bases.
The purpose of this visual framework is to help analysts recognize how economic activity, foreign intelligence collection, and technological acquisition often intersect in subtle but strategically significant ways.
Control of the world’s oceans has long been a cornerstone of geopolitical power. In the 21st century, maritime competition between major powers is evolving beyond traditional naval fleets to include autonomous systems, long-range precision weapons, undersea networks, and distributed surveillance architectures. The Maritime Warfare in Great Power Competition vignette illustrates the expanding ecosystem of technologies and operational concepts shaping naval strategy between the United States and China.
By mapping these capabilities within a single operational framework, the Maritime Warfare vignette provides a visual overview of how modern naval competition now combines traditional fleets, autonomous systems, advanced sensors, and networked targeting architectures. The result is a maritime battlespace that is increasingly interconnected, technologically sophisticated, and central to the strategic balance between major powers.
Modern warfare increasingly depends on the ability to rapidly detect, identify, track, and strike targets across multiple domains, day or night, in all weather. The DoW has embraced AI powered targeting through efforts liked JADC2, Project Overmatch and Project Maven. The Smart Kill Chains in Great Power Competition vignette illustrates how artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and networked sensors are transforming the traditional military targeting process.
The vignette also depicts the growing role of attritable systems, tactical drones, and maritime autonomous platforms, which expand the operational reach of military forces while reducing risk to human operators. Together, these capabilities represent a shift from linear targeting chains to dynamic, AI-enabled networks capable of operating simultaneously in real time across land, sea, air, cyber, and space.
Space services and cislunar space has become a critical domain of contested strategic competition between major powers. Satellites provide the backbone for navigation, communications, intelligence collection, missile warning, and global command networks.
Space Services in Great Power Competition illustrates the constellation of technologies that support both commercial, research and military operations on orbit and the emerging capabilities designed to contest that domain. These include reconnaissance satellites, synthetic aperture radar systems, communications relays, navigation constellations, and missile tracking sensors. The Vignette also highlights the growing importance of launch infrastructure, space domain awareness systems, and defensive capabilities designed to protect satellite networks from interference or attack.
Innovation ecosystems in great power competition extends beyond military platforms to the companies, venture capital, and technology ecosystems driving innovation.
This analytical framework compares emerging U.S. defense technology firms, illustrating how market positioning, investment, and technological maturity contribute to national security and future military capability.
These original analytical frameworks are now brought together in a single premium full-color volume, Great Power Competition: The Science War of the Century | A Visual Atlas.
Great power competition is reshaping every domain of national power—from artificial intelligence and autonomous systems to economics, energy, manufacturing, and military modernization. This visual atlas provides an analytical framework for understanding that transformation — one ecosystem at a time.
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