The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat

February 12, 2022 00:50:42
The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat
Irregular Warfare Podcast
The Kill Chain: Why America Faces the Prospect of Defeat

Feb 12 2022 | 00:50:42

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Show Notes

​​A fundamental change in warfare is occurring, one that risks rendering the American way of war obsolete. As China uses technology to enhance the primacy of its kill chain, the United States has pursued a method of war that is platform-centric—and could prove dangerously outdated. Our guests on this episode, General David Berger and Christian Brose, discuss the radically different approach to warfighting the United States needs to avoid finding itself completely outmatched by China militarily—with devastating consequences for America’s place in the world and for the global norms which we now take for granted.

Intro music: "Unsilenced" by Ketsa

Outro music: "Launch" by Ketsa

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