Shashank Joshi
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307 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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It may not be as disposable or consumable as a tiny little Ukrainian drone.
And suddenly you're in a kind of different world in terms of the hardware that you're using.
The geography powerfully shapes the capabilities you need.
And so I don't think there's a single cookie cutter answer of what should armies look like.
It's about drawing the right lessons.
I think a great way to think about that is look at the war in Iran, which in military operational terms, though not in political terms, was a success for the United States and Israel.
How did they project power into Iran?
Well, it was legacy equipment.
It was F-35 stealth aircraft that cost huge amounts of money.
It was refueling aircraft, allowing these jets to be projected over these big distances.
It was high-end cruise missiles that cost way more than the
Stuff Ukraine is using.
Now, not all of that perhaps needed to be expensive, but it allowed for complete overmatch over Iran.
And I think what we will see more of is the idea of hybrid forces.
If you look at, for example, the Royal Navy in the UK, they talk about a hybrid fleet.
So you'll have crewed ships, you'll have aircraft carriers, but you'll have drone ships operating off them.
You'll have drone ships providing pickets and scouting ahead of them.
If you look at air forces around the world,
World.
They're talking about loyal wingmen complementing their expensive crude jets, and they might be able to push into hostile Chinese airspace in the way that you might not put a crewed aircraft.
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