Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast. I am your usual host Vincent Iello, but this week I turn the microphones over to our friends at Authentic Media, who in cooperation with Cubic Defense present the seventh installment of on future war.

This monthly series which explores possible conflict in the Indo-PA-COM AOR,

well it has boasted such topics as China's island building campaigns, fifth generation fighters,

remotely piloted aircraft, and even GPS.

And on this episode, we discuss every self-respecting fighter pilot's all-time favorite topic

Surface Combatants. That's right the US Navy featured far more different types of

surface combatants during the Cold War of which the Arly Burke destroyer was among the

premiere, but after the Cold War, revolutionary concepts dominated ship design

and they weren't always successful. This is sure to be a challenge in any future conflict where the Navy playing a

challenging away game will be tasked to power project and defend the logistics necessary to bring

the fight to our enemies. And we're going to hear all about it

on this week's on future war episode

with host and former Surface Warfare officer himself,

Scott Chafian.

Take it away, Roger.

As technologies and geopolitics change, so does the nature of warfare.

Welcome back to On Future World, a series sponsored by Cubic Defense that looks at emerging technologies and how they may affect

peer and near peer level conflict in the future, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region,

with a specific focus on military tactics, operations, and

strategy and their interaction with the other instruments of national security

policy. The future is now.

The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the

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