2024-10-30
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Today I'm here with Christopher Kirchhoff.
He wrote a book that I thought was great.
It is Unit X How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, and that is co authored with Raj M.
Shah.
This book has a rave review from the Financial Times and on Twitter.
Also from Chris Platman.
To give you a full biography of Chris.
He is an expert in emerging technology.
He helped to create the Defense Innovation Unit, and he's also worked as an assistant to Eric Schmidt.
Earlier in the Obama administration, he was the director of strategic planning for the National Security Council and also the senior civilian advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Chris, welcome.
Thank you, Tyler.
I have many questions about your topic.
How permanent is the ascendancy of drone warfare?
So it's the thing now, is this the next hundred years, the next five years, what?
It's certainly the next generation of military technology.
And you know, we've seen this coming for a while, right?
Diu Defense Innovation Unit, the topic of the book, in 2017, started the military's first commercial drone unit and began experimenting with both offensive and defensive uses of drones.