The Hand Behind Unmanned
Episodes
Episode 8 (Bonus): Julia and Jackie Weigh In
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Julia and Jackie in this bonus episode as they discuss what they’ve learned throughout the podcast, including what this means for the Trump adm...
Episode 7: The Future Hands Shaping the US’s Unmanned Arsenal
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode looks at what unmanned the US is currently buying and what it should buy for a war against China. How is the US responding to unmanned in...
Episode 6: Autonomy Now! Ukraine, Iran, China, and the “Drone” Revolution
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How will the US respond to new experimentations of unmanned systems?The US built an expensive, exquisite, and highly controlled inventory of unmanned ...
Episode 5: War Against Terror – The Predator Age
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode looks at unmanned systems and the global war on terror, focusing on the rise of the Predator and Reaper. On September 11th, everything ch...
Episode 4: American Primacy and the Information Revolution – Setting the Scene for the Predator
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode looks at the rise of cruise missiles in the early information age, tracing a belief in military revolutions from the Gulf War to 9/11.It i...
Episode 3: AirLand Unmanned Battle – Vietnam to the Fall of the Wall
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses developments in unmanned technologies from the battlefields of Vietnam to the end of the Cold War.After decades of armed servic...
Episode 2: How We Learned to Love Unmanned – The Cold War, Nuclear Weapons, and Strategic Unmanned Stability
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode introduces the technologies of an American military post-WWII and the new influencers of the nuclear age: Air Force generals LeMay and Sch...
Episode 1: The Hand Behind Unmanned – America’s Quest for Autonomous War
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are unmanned weapons and where did America’s quest for autonomy begin? The answer takes us back to the birthplace of the country and David Bu...