Daniel P. Driscoll

Like, I think it's kind of outside of our ability to know what that is going to be.

And so I think that there is a real possibility that some of the things China is pretty effective with today, when we hit moments of warfare and conflict, we are able to degrade those capabilities quickly, and they will have had an over-reliance on them in combat, where I think their safe self-driving capabilities may be amazing in Beijing.

And they may be effective on the battlefield, but they also might not be.

And I don't know that they have invested and continue to invest and train these exquisite human beings like we have in our soldiers that at that moment where it kind of all degrades back to just humans on the ground with commander's intent, who's going to win?

I am incredibly optimistic that our soldiers win that fight every single time.

So one of the kind of most complicated parts of this is this low Earth orbit where most of the satellites are.

You could envision a world in a World War III scenario where somebody blows something up in the low Earth orbit.

They create a debris field and it takes out

All of the satellites, all of the communication devices, everything in that kind of range, which changes warfare instantly.

I never thought about that.

And that's where this over-reliance on technology, you need to have redundancy at every single step.

You need to be able to use cell phone towers.

You need to be able to use old-school radios.

You need to be able to use hand signals, because in that moment of existential fight where everything is on the table, it's just not going to play out in this very clean way that we're predicting today.

All we know is we need a depth of solutions and an innovative soldier and empowerment to them to go look at this space in front of them and decide what they need at that exact moment.

I think that that is one of these incredibly complicated questions that I am glad I am not the president.

I am glad I am not the secretary of war.

I would not envy having to be in that room to make that decision.

But what I can tell you is, whatever the president needs the army to do,

we would do it well, we would do it effectively.