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Preparing for the Future of War

2025/4/3
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What's Your Problem?
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The war in Ukraine is the first war where cheap, commercial-grade drones play a central role, impacting military strategies and giving smaller countries new ways to fight. The conflict has revealed the need for traditional military powers to adapt to these technological changes.
  • Ukraine war is the first war with huge numbers of cheap drones.
  • Commercial-grade hardware and open-source software power the drones.
  • Smaller countries like Ukraine have new ways to fight.

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Christopher Kirchhoff helped launch a Defense Department office that aimed to bring Silicon Valley technology to the US military.  Christopher’s problem is this: How can the giant bureaucracy that is the US military keep up with technological change?

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