June 05, 2025
Episode 5: War Against Terror – The Predator Age
Jack Shanahan, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins the episode to discuss the increasingly prolific arsenal of remotely piloted armed aircraft providing persistent and pervasive intelligence over insurgents and terrorists across the world during the golden age for unmanned platforms like the Predators, Reapers, or space-based satellites, while other unmanned systems stagnated: strategic missiles atrophied, tactical missile inventories dwindled, and anti-ship and anti-submarine munitions were de-prioritized.
Listen to the full interview on the Hoover Institution.
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