Brandon Tseng

Where it's like, neither side you want to be sending young men and women to fight each other over, you know,

often what I would call things that we shouldn't be fighting over.

So I do think you'll see a lot of autonomous systems in 2035.

I don't think they're going to be executing every single mission that the Department of War executes on.

But I think people are going to see, like, holy smokes, in the same way

We in the soft community saw what the Reaper drones, the Predator drones could do for us from 2000, 2020.

I think you're going to see people say, holy smokes, look at what autonomous systems can do for us.

We need to double down, triple down, 10x down on these types of systems because they're going to have massive strategic impacts on the battlefield.

Happy to talk about why.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

I think this is why I believe autonomy, if I had to point out the most strategic technologies in warfare for the past 90 years, 100 years, it'd be like...

are air power, and behind that you have our nuclear triad, our nuclear submarine, super important.

In the 80s, we developed stealth technology and GPS-guided munitions.

Then we adopted large drones from 2000 to 2020.

And I think the next evolution, which is really a transformation, is this proliferation of autonomous, highly intelligent autonomous systems that are ubiquitous on the battlefield.

Now from like, again, an engineer, think about like first principles.

And if you look at like one of the principles of warfare or actually like two of them, it's like mass and maneuver.

Mass, super important, right?

Those who are able to apply mass and maneuver on the battlefield more effectively than others have always been more successful in the history of conflict, right?