How To Predict the Future of War

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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With every new technological breakthrough the battlefield of the future changes, often beyond recognition. Named as one of the United States’ 100 leading innovators by the Smithsonian, one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues by Defense News, and as an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, Peter Warren Singer takes on the task of envisioning the future of warfare. In this episode, he speaks to James about the use of fact-based fiction and video games to consider and share battlefield strategy. Peter has advised on games including Call of Duty, and no other author has more books on the professional US military reading lists. His new book with co-author August Cole is called ‘Burn-In: A Novel of the REAL Robotic Revolution’.

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0:14.7	Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode we're asking what is the future of war it's not an easy question how do you weigh up the emerging trends and technologies to decide which is going to be the most influential and of course which is going to be the biggest threat, whether say it's AI, robotics or cyber warfare.
0:21.6	Well to explain all we have the world's premier futurist in the national security environment,
0:27.4	Peter W Singer.
0:29.7	Peter has advised state governments, militaries, Hollywood production companies, and developers of games like Call of Duty on what the most important trends in warfare will be.
0:40.0	He's also written a new book, Burnin, a novel of the Real Robotic Revolution with August
0:46.0	Cole, as well as many other New York Times bestsellers on the future of warfare.
0:51.9	There really is no one better place to talk us through this. So here he is,
0:56.1	Peter W Singer on the Future of War. Hi Peter, thanks for taking the time to talk today. How you doing?
1:17.0	We're hanging in there. Definitely a light at the end of the tunnel feeling compared to
1:22.0	certainly where we were a year back.
1:23.4	Where are you in the world? Where are you talking to us from? I live in the Washington DC area so you know it's
1:28.7	interesting you and I are speaking exactly one year ago.
1:33.0	August Cole and my book,
1:35.0	Burnin, came out, and the context of it was
1:39.0	interesting, is a very mild adjective, interesting time to release a book.
1:45.0	You had everything from the pandemic in its full swing.
1:49.0	We were in full lockdown in the United States.
1:52.0	Everything from work from home to kids from home to
1:56.7	I've got to figure out how to get toilet paper.
1:59.7	And it was just the start of the summer of protests over racial justice in the wake of multiple killings.
2:09.3	And none of those issues are solved, obviously enough, but what a time to try and push out a new product.
2:16.0	You know, the bookstores weren't even open.
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