Today on Uncommon Knowledge, John Arquilla, professor of defense analysis at the Naval Post Graduate School, and Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Fellow and military historian. Both men are in agreement that the force structure of the U.S. military has got to be revamped to keep up with the looming threats of a nuclear Iran or an aggressive China.

John Arquilla: I want the Navy to move away from having a few large platforms to having many, many smaller ones…The Navy is uniquely poised to take advantage of something that could revolutionize what we call the military industrial complex. We could make it a military post-industrial complex if we say, “Look – the next generation needs to be remotely operated, and some of these things should be autonomous and artificially intelligent.”

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