Chrisian Brose is the Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries. He’s been at the forefront of the debate about how America needs to change in order to win a future war against a high-tech adversary like China. He’s the former staff director for the Senate Armed Services Committee and the author of the essential book, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare.

We discuss:

• Why the U.S remains dangerously vulnerable to low-cost drone attacks and what it would take to get serious about defending the homeland,

• How bureaucratic logjams and budget dysfunction stall America’s adoption of counter-drone and other critical defenses,

• What the Ukraine war reveals about the future of warfare and what the US has yet to learn from it,

• Why confidence in American technological superiority is misplaced, and why state-of-the-art weapons may not guarantee a quick or decisive war,

• How humans will make military decisions in the age of AI.

Outro music: Kay Kyser - Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition (YouTube Link)

Gracie Fields - Thing-Ummy-Bob (That's Going To Win The War) (YouTube Link)

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