June 05, 2025

Episode 7: The Future Hands Shaping the U.S.’s Unmanned Arsenal

How is the U.S. responding to unmanned innovation across the globe? This episode with Paul Scharre, executive vice president, Stacie Pettyjohn, program director and senior fellow, and Jack Shanahan, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, looks at what unmanned systems the U.S. military is currently investing in and then turns to experts to ask what they think the U.S. should be investing in.

Listen to the full episode on the Hoover Institution.

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