1. Office of the Secretary of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2014, available @ http://www.defense.gov /pubs/2014_DoD_China_Report.pdf; accessed 13 June 2014.
2. Andrew L. Ross, “The Dynamics of Military Technology,” in David Dewitt, David Haglund, and John Kirton, eds., Building a New Global Order: Emerging Trends in International Security, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 106–140.
3. Think suicide bombing and IEDs. On the former see Michael C. Horowitz, “Nonstate Actors and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Suicide Terrorism,” International Organization, Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 33–64.
4. Emily O. Goldman and Andrew L. Ross, “Conclusion: The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas—Theory and Practice,” in Emily O. Goldman and Leslie C. Eliason, eds., The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 371–403; and Michael C. Horowitz, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
5. For insightful recent surveys see Shawn Brimley, Ben FitzGerald, and Kelley Sayler, Game Changers: Disruptive Technology and U.S. Defense Strategy, Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, September 2013; and Michael E. Horowitz, “Coming Next in Military Tech,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 70, No. 1, January 2014, pp. 54–62. See also James D. Shields and James A. Tegnelia, Co-Chairmen, Defense Science Board Report on Technology and Innovation Enablers for Superiority in 2030, Washington, DC: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, October 2013.