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The episode discusses the impact of cheap, expendable drones on American military power and strategy.

Kaiser's Coffins to Killer Swarms Truesdell Wealth Events Truesdell Wealth Contact Truesdell Travel The February 2027 Cruise Truesdell Travel Contact Paul Truesdell About Blog Podcast Why Cheap, Expendable Drones—Not Billion-Dollar Platforms—Will Decide the Next Century of American Power Good morning, afternoon, or evening, this is Paul Truesdell and this is the Paul Truesdell Podcast. There is an old truth out in the high country, one that every scout and every hunter and every man who ever read the weather off a ridgeline comes to learn. The wind always tells you what is coming before the storm arrives. You only have to be quiet enough to listen, and honest enough to believe what you hear, even when the sky straight overhead is still blue. I want to talk to you about a storm that is gathering. Not to frighten you, because fear is a poor compass and a worse general. I want to talk about it so that we are ready. Because the United States is in the middle of the largest retooling of its military since the Second World War, and most good people have not yet felt the wind shift. Let me begin where every serious conversation about American power has to begin. With the sea. And with a…

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Host: Paul Truesdell

Topics covered

• military retooling
• drones
• American power
• history
• technology

Keywords

• drones
• military
• American power
• Kaiser
• technology

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Organizations: Kaiser Permanente

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