Episode 7: The Future Hands Shaping the US’s Unmanned Arsenal

The episode looks at what unmanned the US is currently buying and what it should buy for a war against China.

How is the US responding to unmanned innovation across the globe? This episode looks at what unmanned systems the US military is currently investing in and then turns to experts to ask what they think the US should be investing in. These interviews highlight a debate between different characteristics of war—precision vs. mass, attrition vs. maneuver, quality vs. quantity, and argue that too little emphasis is put on how these systems allow states to manage the long term economic and political cost of warfare.