Noel King

or even some cases using old like World War II style anti-aircraft guns.

The issue is getting enough of them scaled and in place.

And the U.S.

was already experimenting with some of these cheaper Ukrainian defenses.

So the U.S.

has just more options essentially to defend against these Iranian attacks.

If a fairly cheap unmanned drone can overwhelm a billion-dollar aircraft carrier, does the U.S.

need to start rethinking the way it fights wars?

100%.

Huh.

The plan to rely only on these exquisite, expensive, hard to produce weapons is no longer going to be enough for the United States.

That would especially be true in a war against the most sophisticated potential adversaries the United States could face, like China or Russia.

Instead, what the United States needs to pursue is what's called a high-low mix of forces.

some of those high-end systems, these best in the world, like Tomahawk missiles and F-35s and things that the United States has been pioneered and worked on for a generation, but then also a new wave of these lower-cost systems that need to be treated not as the kind of thing you might hold on for 50 years, but things that are cheaper, more disposable, and that are upgraded on a regular basis.

So that high-low mix,

is going to be critical to the ability of the United States to succeed moving forward.

So this war is actually changing in real time the future of warfare.

What do you think war looks like a generation from now?

I mean, the character of warfare is always in flux.

And the way that I would think about this is just like the introduction of the machine gun at scale in World War I fundamentally changed the character of warfare.