Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 11:35)
Warfare Is Changing Before Our Eyes: The Rise of Autonomous Weapons and Drones Is Changing Modern Warfare
- Military Snipers Are Being Put Out of a Job by Drones by The Wall Street Journal (Alistair MacDonald)
The Brave Boy in the Pear Tree: How a 12-Year-Old Hero in Ukraine Fought Back Against a Russian Attack
- In northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won. by The Washington Post (Steve Hendrix and Kostiantyn Khudov)
Christian Parents and Leaders Must Pay Attention: Recent Headlines Emphasize the Moral Threat of New Technology
- ChatGPT became teen’s ‘illicit drug coach’ before death, lawsuit claims by USA Today (Mary Walrath-Holdridge)
- Can social media companies be sued for sexual videos? Supreme Court weighs in by USA Today (Maureen Groppe)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 20, 2006. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | When we talk about how changes come in something as basic and as big as war, |
| 0:18.0 | one of the things we need to recognize is that the biggest revolutions in warfare |
| 0:22.9 | take place in the context of warfare. Now, when you look at the question of how that plays out |
| 0:29.1 | in human history, just think of the 20th century. And so if you look in the beginning of the 20th century, |
| 0:34.2 | and then you think of World War I coming so early in that century, |
| 0:37.8 | such a dark, horrifying event. One of the things we need to recognize is that between 1914 and |
| 0:43.4 | 1918, a great deal of the technology of war was redefined. And so, for example, naval forces |
| 0:50.5 | were basically absolutely redesigned. And there's continuity, but there's also radical |
| 0:55.9 | discontinuity. And by the time you come to the end of World War I, it is really clear that, for |
| 1:01.6 | example, U-boats, the German U-boats, under-sea boats, what we would call submarines, we're |
| 1:06.5 | going to be a major factor going forward. You also had the development of other forms and innovations in land |
| 1:11.9 | warfare, and you had the emergence of what during the 20th century would become in the Second World War, |
| 1:17.7 | absolutely crucial, and that is the development of the tank of armored divisions in terms of tanks |
| 1:23.7 | as these massive mobile vehicles. And so when you look at World War I, the tank is kind of a new |
| 1:30.5 | innovation. It's something that is being developed by the time you come to World War II. It is a |
| 1:36.0 | massive fact. And by the way, the tanks themselves grew massive. World War II coming in the middle |
| 1:41.4 | of the century just accentuates this further. In the beginning of the war, of course, you have these vast navies facing off against one another. |
| 1:49.4 | And one of the biggest changes that took place then is that in the beginning of World War II, in naval terms, you had a critical role fulfilled by battleships. |
| 1:58.3 | Less than perhaps in World War I, but still very much the battleship was central to the, to the naval organization. |
| 2:04.6 | By the time you come to the end of World War II, the age of the battleship is already over. |
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