588 George M. Dougherty: Beyond "Unmanned": How Drones Are (and Aren't) Rewriting Warfare

Niskanen Summer Institute: Realignment Newsletter: Realignment Bookshop: Email the Show: realignmentpod@gmail.com George M. Dougherty, author of Beast in the Machine: How Robotics and AI Will Transform Warfare and the Future of Human Conflict, joins The Realignment. Marshall and George discuss how robotics and AI are triggering a military revolution as consequential as mechanization a century ago, why the real story isn't "drones" but "universal precision: a 100-1000x leap in lethality on the battlefield, the need to rethink offense, defense, and initiative, how small states and non-state actors are innovating faster than the U.S. and legacy defense ecosystems, and what today's equivalent of the outmoded WWII battleship is.

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588 George M. Dougherty: Beyond "Unmanned": How Drones Are (and Aren't) Rewriting Warfare is an episode from The Realignment by The Realignment.

This episode is 01:08:28 long.

This episode was published on Jan 6, 2026.

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