Walter Russell Mead
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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Air power alone does not win wars.
People have assumed since the 1930s that air power would be decisive in wars for various reasons.
And it hasn't been.
And it still isn't.
And we still haven't learned that.
We still haven't internalized that.
Because it looks like a wonderful easy button.
You press the air war button and you have superiority.
Other side surrenders.
Everything is fine.
It just doesn't work that way.
On the other hand, the fact that basically we're moving toward the automation of war.
I mean, in Ukraine, there are places where only a very small number of soldiers are holding a significant chunk of the front because of drones.
They've really thinned out the presence of people on the front.
That's going to go forward.
And it means, for example, that the size of your economy and your technological level may be a more important factor in national strength than the number of 18-year-olds that you can put a rifle in the hands.
That's actually big.
It means in Asia, it means that Japan has the potential to be a much, you know, something closer to a peer competitor with China as a military power, despite the gap in their population.
It also obviously in terms of U.S.-Chinese balance of power is probably favorable for us.
In the Middle East, I think it's probably favorable for Israel, the caveat, which I'll get to.
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