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But yeah, we did talk a little bit about what it would look like if we could program combat AI. able to give these weapons algorithms and give them presets for what a target looks like. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to war college. I'm Matthew Galt. China and America are two of the world's great powers. Their economies are

intertwined, their military is powerful, and their soft power spreading across the globe.

Intensions are rising. Neither side wants to go to war but both sides are committed to winning that war should the unthinkable ever occur.

Recently, War College's own Kevin Nodell spent time at the Army's joint war fighting assessment at Joint Base Louis

McCord in Washington State. The weeks-long training brought together

military personnel from seven different countries to train together for a

nightmare scenario, a new war in the Pacific.

Kevin is here to talk to us about that today.

In addition to being the producer at War College,

he's also a journalist whose work has appeared in Playboy, The Daily Beast, and McClatchky.

He's also the co-author of several non-fiction graphic novels including The Stan and

Macheti Squad.

Kevin, thank you so much for joining us. Glad to be here.

Okay, so why is America preparing for a war with China?

Well, I think there's a few ways to approach that question.

On the one hand, I don't think that, as we said earlier, nobody particularly wants this

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