The future of war

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  • Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
  • New technology is transforming the way wars are fought, and not just in Ukraine. As tension increases between China and America over Taiwan, what does the future of war look like?
    00:00 Lessons from the Ukraine war
    01:03 How drones are shaping war
    04:40 Starlink is a lifeline for soldiers
    06:15 Why China fears Starlink
    07:25 The role of AI in wars of the future
    10:15 Defence spending on AI
    10:50 Concerns about algorithmic warfare
    12:55 Will China weaponise cyberwarfare?
    14:40 The tragedy of war
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    Find our latest coverage on the Ukraine war here: econ.st/3CLAmrx
    Listen to our podcast on how Ukrainian drones could change the way wars are fought everywhere: econ.st/3Nuu58u
    How AI-wielding tech firms are giving a new shape to modern warfare: econ.st/43Yref4
    Read about drone fights above Ukraine: econ.st/3pmqaTs
    Why Ukraine is betting on drones to strike deep into Russia: econ.st/3PxkD7g
    What Russia’s army is learning on the battlefield: econ.st/3Xshwzf
    What will Western armies learn from the war in Ukraine? econ.st/44n4hCp
    Read about whether the West can build up its armed forces on the cheap: econ.st/46ftCjc
    Why the war in Ukraine is boosting Israel’s arms exports: econ.st/3r1etlt
    Why Ukraine’s top guns need new jets to win the war: econ.st/46pveH4
    Find out where the deadliest war in world took place last year here: econ.st/3JyUGjL
    Why America’s next war may begin in Guam: econ.st/3CKM06b
    Find out why China fears Starlink here: econ.st/3NO81aA
    How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare: econ.st/42UnWIt
    Read about the degrading treatment of Ukraine’s internet here: econ.st/42ZLf3P
    Why Russian hackers are preparing for a new campaign in Ukraine: econ.st/43Wz34V
    Why Ukraine’s tech entrepreneurs turn to military matters: econ.st/3Pw4TBj

Комментарии • 844

  • @guitarninjarick8179
    @guitarninjarick8179 11 месяцев назад +278

    I worked for a hobby store that sold Horizon Hobby merchandise from 2012 to 2017 and it was crazy how much drone tech advanced in that time. It went from practically nothing to almost what we see today in that time frame. The tech in these things nowadays is astonishing.

    • @beyondfossil
      @beyondfossil 11 месяцев назад +13

      Yes true. At the same time, seeing military personnel bungee launching or hand launching a foam fixed wing plane (for recon or attack) is something you'd see at most RC fields! Minus the munitions of course but some RC'ers have been known to rig up a servo mechanism to drop water balloons back in the day too. 😁

    • @BGeezy4sheezy
      @BGeezy4sheezy 11 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah War is getting smaller and smaller. The 20th century saw giant military hardware dominate the battlefield-tanks, carriers, bombers. The 21st will likely rely more heavily on small drones and other similar devices in large numbers

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@beyondfossil I first "discovered" modern drones when some neighbor used a DJI to drop firecrackers in my boss's back yard when I was staying over. I heard a bang, looked outside, and called to my boss, "Hey! Check it out! A drone!" and we watched the thing and apparently the operator saw we'd seen it and it sidled off. Pretty funny really. That would be what, 2014?

    • @Zei33
      @Zei33 11 месяцев назад +4

      AI is what really shocked me. I’ve been programming for 12 years and the progress made in the last 2 years has been insane.

    • @nonegone7170
      @nonegone7170 11 месяцев назад +1

      I remember the switch from 'drones' meaning FPV planes, hand built by hobbyists, to the mass produced quadcopters.
      Those early drones were so much more fun to tinker around with.

  • @vanguard1100
    @vanguard1100 11 месяцев назад +133

    This was a great overview of future wartech and their ramifications, and I especially appreciated the inclusion of the very human parts at the end - like that Ukranian soldier and his partner.

    • @isntimportant
      @isntimportant 11 месяцев назад

      I have seen so many Ukrainians film their own war crimes with drones. They fly in, drop a grenade, fly back, reload it, over and over for many hours to days attacking the same now unarmed now critically wounded men who are absolutely no longer legal targets under the rule of war. Then they'll continue to bomb their corpses for hours too. It's insane that these Ukrainian drone pilots are not being charged for war crimes. The Hague has attempted to locate 0 of them. I know Russians pretty much INVENTED war crimes, look at Katyn. But Ukrainians are FILMING theirs, should make catching the criminals easy yet nothing comes of it.

  • @barbarahunc1357
    @barbarahunc1357 11 месяцев назад +142

    I'm so sorry for this young generation to became soldiers and use their skills , intelligence for fighting enemies. I wish this is only temporary- I wish them all the best, with all the respect!
    Salute 🇺🇦

    • @loonowolf2160
      @loonowolf2160 11 месяцев назад

      Mate has long ruzzia doesn't move out of the ussr era, and communist doesn't disappear from this world from china and nk it will never end, those 3 country are the worst and don't care to simple stop and just dissolve and undo their nukes too.
      Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦.

    • @bluedragontoybash2463
      @bluedragontoybash2463 11 месяцев назад

      The US don't want peace negotiation. They all are going to die / crippled by war

    • @Epiderm91
      @Epiderm91 11 месяцев назад +2

      Why sorry? They should be proud.

    • @nonamenoname1942
      @nonamenoname1942 11 месяцев назад

      @content_enjoyer4458 then resist the ruling class who make you a cannon fodder. It's the same story as ww1, war never changes.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      No, it will be prolonged and keep escalating, the USA is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, and the far right fanatics that are really in charge of the war are too.

  • @landotter
    @landotter 11 месяцев назад +31

    We need Radio Shack to make a comeback.

  • @laythefoundation2083
    @laythefoundation2083 11 месяцев назад +61

    Watching this made me realize 3 things
    1. Wars will absolutely be prolonged doing this, tech is easier and cheaper to replace than military aged young men.
    2. Ground tactics of advancing and securing an area will probably take longer, since you don't need troops in the area to clear said area
    3. I could see armed conflicts ramping up over the next few decades due to the advancement of tech being able to do the job of soilders on the ground making it easier for countries to garner local support since less actual humans have to die to accomplish the same goal

    • @davidwells2515
      @davidwells2515 11 месяцев назад

      There’s no actual result in war without people getting killed. Don’t be fooled. It’s not gonna be just robots attacking robots. It’s gonna be robots killing robots and people. The tech is available now, and in Ukraine they still have to fight like in ww1 in trenches with massive casualties. A persons life is cheaper than a lot of these weapon systems and easier to replace

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      Humans will always die. Any superior power will massacre the other side, it has always happened and it always will. The USA killed 500 000 children in Iraq through sanctions before the invasion became Iraq supposedly had WMDs that didn’t exist, and Madeline Albright claimed it was worth it. And that was before the invasion

    • @lonerider5933
      @lonerider5933 11 месяцев назад

      Would be horrible. I guess China vs US war will be hiding in basements from drone debris all the time. And for their price if two or 3 big drones can take out a naval carrier then it's over

    • @ellyrion8173
      @ellyrion8173 11 месяцев назад +2

      You will absolutely still need troops to clear an area

    • @JakeMazurski
      @JakeMazurski 9 месяцев назад +5

      For #1, in Russia, historically, it has always been the absolute opposite. We even have a horrible horrific saying : Women will give birth to more

  • @user-ft4ee8gt7p
    @user-ft4ee8gt7p 11 месяцев назад +6

    Thanks Sashank! Excellent as always.. Imagine we could of had drones for ww1 and ww2.

  • @zacharydavis4398
    @zacharydavis4398 11 месяцев назад +80

    Thank you for spending the time to create and share this content awareness/perspective

    • @creounity
      @creounity 11 месяцев назад

      But how many times have they shown you another side?
      1) interviews of the UNR's German occupation leaders who confessed in 1919 that it was them who chipped away and "created" the Ukraine.
      2) declassified documents showing that the United States' CIA had been spending (from 1950s till these days) dozens of billions of American taxpayers' money to send arms, propaganda materials and other resources to the successors and followers of the OUN-UPA Ukrainian terrorists who slaughtered 1+ million innocent Russian, Polish and Jewish women, children and old men -- specifically due to the utter, radical national hatred.
      3) CIA confirmed in August 1957 almost all citizens of the UkrSSR don't differentiate themselves from ethnic Russians.
      4) Nationalistic Battalions and other Bandera glorificators stated killing Russians and Russian-speaking citizens in then-Ukraine even prior to 2014, and from 2014 onward they started using literally the same methods of torture that Fascists (and OUN-UPA members) were using during the WW2.
      5) the US paid for the coup of 2013-2014.
      6) Armed forces of the Ukraine have been shelling residential houses and civilian infrastructure in Donbass since 2014.
      7) Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, Johnson and Zelensky -- all confessed that Minsk agreements were just a hoax, they didn't plan to start implement them, but instead they've been spending the money to deliver lethal weapons onto the territory of the Ukraine.
      8) USAID, UNICEF, OSCE, UN and other organizations had been investing enormous amount of money during last decades into the anti-russian (i.e. russophobic) propaganda in ex-Eastern Ukraine, especially among young children.
      9) Numerous American think-tanks (the Atlantic, Hudson Institute and many others) have been working on the plans to destroy Russia into multiple parts in war with each other, using multiple methods.
      and so on and so forth...
      Did the Economist or any Western-based media show you this reverse side of the medal?

  • @peterhumphrys
    @peterhumphrys 11 месяцев назад +16

    sounds like we have entered the era of the "Droid wars"

  • @Esbbbb
    @Esbbbb 11 месяцев назад +113

    I just wish the future of war would be... non existent. As in, no wars.

    • @kigoshen
      @kigoshen 11 месяцев назад +29

      Not gonna happen

    • @jaimemint405
      @jaimemint405 11 месяцев назад

      you got it, but i think outlets like this are made to make war and weaponry to look as it it kind of our behaviour and the status quo, to stuck in this kind of mankind.

    • @johnbeans2000
      @johnbeans2000 11 месяцев назад +2

      Yes there will never be another death on this planet from wars 100%. Except no.

    • @rexomi17
      @rexomi17 11 месяцев назад

      I honestly think war is beneficial and let's be honest
      The world being filled with LGBQT, brain dead clout and etc.
      So I want Cold War 2.0

    • @abdiganiaden
      @abdiganiaden 11 месяцев назад +5

      That’s like saying I hope no one disagrees forever. Fruitless effort.

  • @chrisk5437
    @chrisk5437 11 месяцев назад +35

    Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
    Herbert Hoover

    • @itheuserfirst3186
      @itheuserfirst3186 11 месяцев назад +3

      And those older men were younger men who went to war as well. Of course younger men go to war.

    • @aenorist2431
      @aenorist2431 11 месяцев назад

      Also straight up not true. Plenty of 50 year olds in the Ukrainian army, because they had so many volunteers and took everyone fit enough and committed.

  • @karlpopper601
    @karlpopper601 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great journalism of economist. Great reports. I have read every articles of the economist form 2016 to now.

  • @tnminhkhoi1398
    @tnminhkhoi1398 11 месяцев назад +78

    A war between China and Taiwan would be much more different and we may see swarms of drone being used as both of them has huge capabilities of drone production

    • @user-hc5cg3jc3i
      @user-hc5cg3jc3i 11 месяцев назад +10

      Shouldn't you be reading history? When did Taiwan become independent and change the constitution, flag and song of the Republic of China? Your country recognizes diplomatic relations with him? Recognized by the UN Charter and international organizations such as the World Trade Organization? The Borstein Proclamation, please, and what's in the Cairo Declaration? Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of China.

    • @user-hc5cg3jc3i
      @user-hc5cg3jc3i 11 месяцев назад +2

      When was Taiwan a country? Is there a single country in the world? World recognition and diplomatic relations with him?

    • @cfi8192
      @cfi8192 11 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@user-hc5cg3jc3iTaiwan does been recognize and have diplomatic relationship from 12 countries actually

    • @tnminhkhoi1398
      @tnminhkhoi1398 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@user-hc5cg3jc3i did i mention Taiwan its own a coumtry?

    • @user-hc5cg3jc3i
      @user-hc5cg3jc3i 11 месяцев назад

      @@cfi8192 And then what? Which few small countries in the world have no presence in the world can represent the international? Represent the world? Do you want to see the major countries who recognize Taiwan as a country and establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan? And when will Taiwan become an independent state? Why don't you look at international treaties and consensus such as the Borstein Proclamation and the Cairo Declaration?

  • @maritimezhang
    @maritimezhang 11 месяцев назад +25

    No worse time to be an infantryman.

    • @PrograError
      @PrograError 11 месяцев назад +4

      or a dude in a tank with a built in jack in the box

  • @raymondhartono
    @raymondhartono 11 месяцев назад

    All the best in the long future! I might subscribe!

  • @thDecimus
    @thDecimus 11 месяцев назад +2

    1:52 Serious Sam logo, who played may know why, nice sense of humor

  • @gawayne1374
    @gawayne1374 11 месяцев назад +2

    Engagement tactics: 1) fast war, shallow but smart and highly destructive arsenal. 2) Conflict extension, low cost high quantity arsenal to maintain pressure. 3) Mutually assured destruction, nuclear arsenal for the worst case scenario.

  • @eddebrock
    @eddebrock 11 месяцев назад +10

    I think denial of tech communications is going to be a huge part in future conflicts. Basically cyber warfare over communication superiority.

    • @christopherlee7334
      @christopherlee7334 11 месяцев назад

      EMP guns?

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      Russia has advanced their capabilities in this area considerably, this is why you don’t see or hear anywhere near the level of successful Ukrainian drone attacks you used to

  • @donstoddard8458
    @donstoddard8458 11 месяцев назад

    You guys and gals are the best thank you

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 11 месяцев назад +66

    This video is amazing. Such a great perspective, coverage of this topic. I think Taiwan NEEDS to invest in advanced modern nuclear energy options so they can be completely independently energy efficient and not reliant on anything or anyone in the case of a worst case scenario.

    • @andrewferguson6901
      @andrewferguson6901 11 месяцев назад +4

      Nuclear energy is a giant blinking sign that says "target missiles here"

    • @johnsterling5425
      @johnsterling5425 11 месяцев назад

      yes so their nuclear can get bombed, that way china won't even need to nuke them, they could simply just bomb their nuclear power plants

    • @thetacokawaii5708
      @thetacokawaii5708 11 месяцев назад

      @@andrewferguson6901 make them underground

    • @rusher2937
      @rusher2937 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@andrewferguson6901so are regular powerplants. China has a big incentive not to irradiate the land it would like to annex, so NPPs would still be a net benefit for Taiwan's energy infrastructure.

    • @benmcreynolds8581
      @benmcreynolds8581 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@andrewferguson6901 any power plant is, or infrastructure system of any kind. If you really think about it. The point is the advancements in nuclear energy options could benefit us so much. You can collaborate other energy options alongside the nuclear energy and make a huge impact on the environment in a positive way.

  • @rustyheyman214
    @rustyheyman214 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks Sashank! Excellent as always.

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 11 месяцев назад +19

    Satellite communication helps here but maybe not in the future. It’s extremely vulnerable and at least China, Russia, France and the US have anti-satellite weapons.

    • @Ruzzky_Bly4t
      @Ruzzky_Bly4t 11 месяцев назад +3

      It's much easier to scale up the number of satellites than the number of "satellite-destroying" missiles. You only need one rocket to send a bunch of satellites into space, but you need one missile per satellite to shoot them down. Also, as satellites get smaller, they will be even harder to detect and shoot down.

    • @raphaelparadis9134
      @raphaelparadis9134 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@Ruzzky_Bly4t The thing is if they destroy a bunch of satellites that will do a lot of debris that will stay in orbit possibly causing a chain reaction destroying even more satellites.

    • @Ruzzky_Bly4t
      @Ruzzky_Bly4t 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@raphaelparadis9134 That's true. Space debris is already becoming a problem and might be a huge obstacle for satellites and rocket launches in the future.

    • @franzplagens3277
      @franzplagens3277 11 месяцев назад

      @@raphaelparadis9134 Yes, and making near-Earth space unusable for a long time.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      @@Ruzzky_Bly4tyou only need one missile to shoot down that rocket, and they are very big, slow and expensive targets. Say Russia shoots 6 down, how long before the USA can make and launch another?

  • @shanghaidiscovery2664
    @shanghaidiscovery2664 11 месяцев назад +5

    the first combat drones were used in the mid 90's. the difference is that today you can make drones that can be used for only a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.... but in any case, are we really entering a period of increased conflicts? Yes Ukraine is the first conventional war in Europe since the Balkans but between Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, there have been conflicts for all these years. some like the Congo wars extremely gruesome with millions of deaths and yet none of us really know about it

    • @G4nd4lf
      @G4nd4lf 11 месяцев назад +2

      You never know what future brings, but although you are right, that Syria, Sudan or Congo wars were vary brutal, war in Ukraine is not like them. Not in the sense of number of casualties, but in the fact that this is first war in decades which is not one sided like an afganistan (Afgans fought a partizant war) or war between third world armies like wars in Africa. This is a first war between two powerfull armies.

  • @cassemg
    @cassemg 11 месяцев назад +1

    Couldn't open the survey, but this is a well done video. Transforming the magazine's in depth text into RUclips. Amazing!

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 11 месяцев назад

      They just need to apply a pink filter...

  • @johnjohnfrederickh.webber2124
    @johnjohnfrederickh.webber2124 11 месяцев назад

    In the future... Knowing how to tackle wars or any forms of it will be handy in securing our lives and our friends or relatives... It's best to enlist and serve and be a reservist...

  • @zirontheimpaler
    @zirontheimpaler 11 месяцев назад

    It was either S2 Underground or Covert Cabal, did a video about the details of 5th Generation warfare. would recommend that alongside this.

  • @pamirsevincel9118
    @pamirsevincel9118 11 месяцев назад +2

    Drones are a big determining factor for the outcome of any war forward. The fact that they are relatively cheap and expendable means they can be produced like ammunition and deployed in the 100s of thousands.
    Hoping this saves human lives in the end, reducing the tally of war.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      It won’t, it will mean more deaths

  • @3dPrintingMillennial
    @3dPrintingMillennial 11 месяцев назад +7

    These guys profit, you die, and the old guys that started the war get to grow old and be remembered forever

  • @socol215
    @socol215 11 месяцев назад +27

    The weaponization of Starlink could be devastating.

    • @Dell96kill
      @Dell96kill 11 месяцев назад +4

      the next weapon will be AI

    • @The_Quaalude
      @The_Quaalude 11 месяцев назад

      The military has had satellites for decades

    • @tekken9476
      @tekken9476 11 месяцев назад +2

      Who's to say it hasn't started

    • @silvan9268
      @silvan9268 11 месяцев назад

      Starlink is a product made for the military from the start. Just like the internet and GPS.

    • @napalmholocaust9093
      @napalmholocaust9093 11 месяцев назад

      It has been since day one. Starlink charges the U.S. government 4,500 bucks per router, Per month Each. And musk has been damaging in a myriad other ways with twitter, mostly by picking sides over and over again and making that narrative the only one. So already mission accomplished and war profiteering.

  • @lorenzop.8249
    @lorenzop.8249 11 месяцев назад

    excellent doc

  • @user-sr8tf3xk4k
    @user-sr8tf3xk4k 11 месяцев назад

    Interesting, thanks.

  • @victorortiz193
    @victorortiz193 11 месяцев назад +2

    War never changes.

  • @mrraccoon6264
    @mrraccoon6264 11 месяцев назад +2

    SkyNet is online😬

  • @karlortenburg
    @karlortenburg 11 месяцев назад +1

    About 4 months ago I wrote to the German and Ukrainian ministry of defense, in the middle of those tank debates that when drones finally get to take out planes and choppers, tanks, artillerie and infantry will lose their cover. I would speed up the development of drone swarms. IMO they are ideal for a smaller army.

  • @jholotanbest2688
    @jholotanbest2688 11 месяцев назад +1

    At 12:44 there is a picture of empty CPU socket depicting a cpu... Should have just used midjourney because I doubt it would have made such a mistake.

  • @deiongoldsmith515
    @deiongoldsmith515 11 месяцев назад +5

    I remember watching somewhere on RUclips that the royal marines, the US and some other nato countries were practicing trench warfare and subterranean warfare and it was a training exercise that focused and theorized that war would be like that due to drone warfare

  • @DC-rh3ix
    @DC-rh3ix 11 месяцев назад

    Great!!

  • @valgoyt912
    @valgoyt912 11 месяцев назад

    This felt like a special backstory trailer for a movie/video game about future warfare

  • @aaronseet2738
    @aaronseet2738 11 месяцев назад +54

    Initially in WW1, enemy pilots would wave at each other when they flew by close. Eventually somebody had the idea of pointing a pistol and shooting at enemy aircraft, and the innocence was lost foreever. Expect drone-on-drone brutality to happen with escalating sophistication.

    • @Annexation_
      @Annexation_ 11 месяцев назад +15

      There are already videos of Ukrainian and Russian drones ramming into each other in the contested airspace lol

    • @aaronseet2738
      @aaronseet2738 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@Annexation_ what I'm claiming is it will get way more sophisticated than that. Can expect to see dedicated anti-drone platforms and weaponry.

    • @whatsursource
      @whatsursource 11 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@aaronseet2738exactly like a amicrowave ray jammer type device

    • @randoguy7488
      @randoguy7488 11 месяцев назад

      @@whatsursource I remember that, but that was years ago, I'm sure nowadays it's smaller, more precise and more effective

  • @poppinc8145
    @poppinc8145 11 месяцев назад +42

    The Ukraine War isn't what made it obvious that armed drones (UCAVs) are the future of warfare. Turkish MALE drones, Iranian kamikaze drones and even Chinese MALE drones were already used extensively before that and gave users an edge across multiple battlefields. Russia and Europe happened to fall behind on the tech, while the US and Israel has also had its own armed drones albeit they're less strategic now due to their high cost and thereby limited numbers and their evaporating strategic exclusivity.
    Yemen's Ansarullah used Iranian kamikaze drones against Saudi Arabia and the UAE which finally got them begging for a ceasefire that went into effect in April 2022, this despite the two also extensively using MALE drones themselves. Azerbaijan's use of Turkish MALE and Israeli kamikaze drones finally won them the war against Armenian separatists in late 2020. Armed drones have also been used extensively in Libya, Ethiopia, Syria and now the Sahel. The new play is armed drone boats (AUSVs).

    • @harrym740
      @harrym740 11 месяцев назад +2

      Imagine drone submarines😮

    • @itheuserfirst3186
      @itheuserfirst3186 11 месяцев назад +3

      You are using the term "drone" in a broad sense. There are drones that look like small aircraft, and then there are modern, commercial drones that are bing used in tactical warfare.

    • @sorryi6685
      @sorryi6685 11 месяцев назад +3

      2020 Azerbaijan - Armenia war already proved how effective drones, Aznerbaijan obliterated Armenia with Turkrish and Isreali drones and Ukraine war is just continuation of that.

    • @tranbaohoangvu9464
      @tranbaohoangvu9464 11 месяцев назад

      It is not true that the U.S. and Europe, or even South Korea could not build armed drones like those in China, Iran and Turkey. It is just that the U.S. and its allies seem to restrain on exporting drones despite the majority of the public supporting armed drone export.
      Taiwan is an example that the U.S. and Israel are willing to export armed drones to.

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 11 месяцев назад

      Yep, this was one of the key observations from the most recent nagorny karabach conflict.

  • @stephendawe1572
    @stephendawe1572 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent and honest analysis

  • @markhennessy8839
    @markhennessy8839 11 месяцев назад +2

    Incredible reporting thank you

  • @rukascool
    @rukascool 11 месяцев назад +2

    10:15 surprising it's quite tiny of an increase, compared to how fast AI research is moving.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      It’s very difficult to get the DoD to spend money on new projects with new companies, the vast majority of their defence budget goes to the approved consolidated military industrial companies like Raetheon and Lockheed Martin. It took Palantir about 15 years of perseverance to land a contract, and they’re the premier AI defence company. The DoD is a slow, bureaucratic monolith that is filled with ex military company employees who favour contracts going to their ex companies

  • @JohnMKim-nt2li
    @JohnMKim-nt2li 10 месяцев назад

    your jobs are so awesome.

  • @harshilagrawal9930
    @harshilagrawal9930 11 месяцев назад

    this video made me remember series the 100

  • @rinaldoman3331
    @rinaldoman3331 11 месяцев назад

    Artillery king of the battlefield that's the main lesson. And also without lot of infantry there is no advancing.

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman6365 11 месяцев назад

    Economist reporting something that OSInt viewers konw for over a year now.

  • @alexp7579
    @alexp7579 11 месяцев назад +5

    I'd guess it's not that hard to develop an AI-operated machine that will shoot down all objects it sees. That's it for reconnaissance/grenade drones against modern militaries.

    • @greghall4836
      @greghall4836 11 месяцев назад

      And a few seconds later that machine is instantly targeted by the AI-operated machine that launched the bait that was shot down...

  • @illuminat121
    @illuminat121 11 месяцев назад

    1:59 the serious sam logo gave me flashbacks

  • @lostkostin
    @lostkostin 11 месяцев назад

    1:57 They really put "Serious Sam" logo on the drone

  • @RobertHempazPhDTrichometry
    @RobertHempazPhDTrichometry 11 месяцев назад

    “Greetings! Two years … PLUS, the duration!” ~ Pres. Roosevelt, 1941

  • @Wolf-hh4rv
    @Wolf-hh4rv 11 месяцев назад +3

    The same limitations as AI in trading markets.

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi8467 11 месяцев назад

    Very frightening!

  • @highbury4life899
    @highbury4life899 11 месяцев назад

    If someone can create a device which can utilize EMP, that could potentially be a useful conter measure to drones.

  • @malikairadmanovick1248
    @malikairadmanovick1248 11 месяцев назад +3

    Either new evolutionary hacking will take place or more use in EMP weapons. In that sense, sound based weapons and light based weapons will need to appear to counter act this. We are at a precipice between what we know and what will come

    • @BGeezy4sheezy
      @BGeezy4sheezy 11 месяцев назад +2

      Like in everything, the rate of technological change is speeding up. Military technologies will appear, be countered, and rendered obsolete, giving way to something new, in a very short time in comparison to the history of warfare

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 11 месяцев назад +1

      If EMP weapons were truly effective, don't you think Russia and Ukraine would be using them? Russia uses a lot of electrical warfare already.

    • @aenorist2431
      @aenorist2431 11 месяцев назад +1

      They are effective, but basic physics still holds ... cube of the distance, i.e. you need a metric fuckton of energy to affect a significant area.
      There is a reason the only real way to cause significant EMP is a high altitude nuke, and there is a reason nobody uses nukes.

  • @2Potates
    @2Potates 11 месяцев назад +11

    I hate how AI has just become the new corporate buzzword.

    • @omaryousifkamal4290
      @omaryousifkamal4290 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah it is another money laundry thing like crepto

  • @BeliMade1
    @BeliMade1 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is what cod and battlefield have been teaching us... "Consumables" = killstreak

  • @raymondhartono
    @raymondhartono 11 месяцев назад

    I do not care about how quickly an information gets to me. OBVIOUSLY I care about the quality of it!

  • @benjaminwachold3736
    @benjaminwachold3736 11 месяцев назад +3

    I think the future of war is going to be more mechanical and technology driven but men and women will be needed to operate it. When I think of future wars I think of is the Terminator movies where it’s man vs technology but it looks line men and women operating more advanced tech. I wonder if AI will eventually become a part of the battlefield. Soldiers wearing a lot of battery operated technology but more advanced. Trying to use more unmanned tech to save lives as well.

    • @BGeezy4sheezy
      @BGeezy4sheezy 11 месяцев назад +4

      The nightmare future that’s super likely is that wars will be decided by competing AI’s who deploy measures and counter measures at a speed no human could ever compete with

    • @DoseofTruth
      @DoseofTruth 11 месяцев назад

      In my opinion, if humanity manages to survive for a considerable duration, I foresee a future where warfare transitions into a form of controlled competition, taking place in designated arenas that could potentially be simulated digitally and preferably located beyond our planet. This evolution would serve as a means to channel and satisfy our inherent drive for competitiveness, while reducing the destructive consequences of traditional warfare.
      Irrespective of technological advancements over the next century, our fundamental competitive instincts are likely to persist. Thus, for the next 100 years, it is plausible that we will continue to embrace and exercise our innate desire to compete.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад

      AI is already very much part of the battlefield. This report omitted much, and was way off the mark in some places. Ukrainian strategy is being run by AI, and there are at least half a dozen separate use cases being fulfilled with AI in this war in the Ukrainian side that I know of. I’m quite sure Russia are using it too, although I don’t b think it will be as sophisticated as America’s, but you never know. If they’ve got their hands on some American kit they might gain some knowledge

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@DoseofTruthnever going to happen. You don’t wage war on terms favourable to the enemy like it’s a sports game. Wars will become more and more brutal and destructive

  • @jonragnarsson
    @jonragnarsson 11 месяцев назад

    Wah. Wah never changes

  • @bigdan8936
    @bigdan8936 11 месяцев назад

    Starlink is awesome!

  • @corpi8784
    @corpi8784 11 месяцев назад

    Which makes me think that an ad-hoc regional WIFi type communications network with the use of a vast array of high flying & much cheaper drones (than satellites) should be doable

  • @seeingtheforest9529
    @seeingtheforest9529 11 месяцев назад +1

    I am terrified by Jennifer McArdle! Her *eyes* are. . .not right.

  • @MALITH666
    @MALITH666 11 месяцев назад +1

    Its a 21st century war. Like, the sheer amount of Video documentation by GoPro's, individual youtube, Instagram, Telegram channels it self is never like before. You dont have much videos of wars in the past decade it self until now. Its crazy.

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin 11 месяцев назад

      Afghanistan and Iraq also featured warfare as cheap wireless devices and social media grew. In Ukraine, there's someone with rocket artillery and close to similar sigint capability on the other side.

  • @registerhand4720
    @registerhand4720 11 месяцев назад +1

    Are those small drones all DJI? what else makes?

  • @Jules1414
    @Jules1414 11 месяцев назад

    Best case scenario, wars end... How will these new players in the military industrial complex carry-on without these juicy contracts? This will not end well for humans.

  • @iamric23
    @iamric23 9 месяцев назад

    why is it then I knew that as soon as the drone was introduced as a toy many many years ago, I knew that warfare would change. People are finally grabbing the idea just now.

  • @michaelrichie5
    @michaelrichie5 11 месяцев назад

    I would LOVE to buy a subscription. But I live on less than 800$ per month.

  • @notrocketscience1950
    @notrocketscience1950 11 месяцев назад

    6:05 the guys does know how his army fights

  • @kevinolean3763
    @kevinolean3763 11 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine some weapons that can be as small or little bit bigger than a bullet that are explosive that fly very quickly and also easily mass produced that hit its target accurately nonstop if needed, besides that it don't care about friend or foe, it's only recognized its “whitelists", that's the future of war.

  • @wamteng3790
    @wamteng3790 11 месяцев назад

    Next, the future of war would be play out like in the film "Small Soldiers".

  • @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv
    @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 11 месяцев назад

    I dont see how an attacking force could not simply use a swarm of kamikaze drones against much more expensive targets especially in a full scale war aircraft carriers might become huge targets. maybe a laser precision cannon of sorts on future destroyers could help or some kind of airburst shockwave future weapon

  • @eomanga
    @eomanga 11 месяцев назад +2

    Such a melodramatic piece of reporting complete with sound effects and all the pizzazz, only to end up saying nothing.
    Haha

  • @natbirchall1580
    @natbirchall1580 11 месяцев назад +14

    This is only because we don't sent Ukraine the jets that they need.

    • @CharlieHill_26
      @CharlieHill_26 11 месяцев назад +6

      Naivety👆

    • @natbirchall1580
      @natbirchall1580 11 месяцев назад

      @@CharlieHill_26 don't you have your own internet?

    • @imborad5350
      @imborad5350 11 месяцев назад +1

      Not really as even if they are sent they will be denied by Russian active air defense..

    • @user-fl5wl9zf2d
      @user-fl5wl9zf2d 11 месяцев назад

      I have a proposal: I will vote for who you ask in Russia and you will vote for who I ask unconditionally of results in Russia

    •  11 месяцев назад +1

      Ukies would need ~200 jets to turn it around. Who will pilot them? Who will provide maintenance?

  • @evanmurphey
    @evanmurphey 11 месяцев назад

    War never changes

  • @johndavis1312
    @johndavis1312 11 месяцев назад

    All signal jammers will become force field's for the infantry but just get artyd

  • @terry_willis
    @terry_willis 11 месяцев назад +3

    AI is great. People can now destroy each other more efficiently. 😞

  • @iansmith4244
    @iansmith4244 4 месяца назад

    Imagine billions of tiny drones dropping bombs on the battlefield. For sure, this is the future.

  • @johannesramokgadi6243
    @johannesramokgadi6243 9 месяцев назад

    These small and cheap drones makes it easier for less powerful opponents to fight against much more powerful enemies.

  • @Melanie____
    @Melanie____ 11 месяцев назад

    Someone, anyone can start a war. No one can walk away truely alive. - Anberlin

  • @user-hj6uy5zi7i
    @user-hj6uy5zi7i 10 месяцев назад +1

    You've chosen a guy with a Waffen SS division patch for the video preview. Nice work, Economist!

    • @mehoV2
      @mehoV2 4 месяца назад

      Wait where is it?

    • @user-hj6uy5zi7i
      @user-hj6uy5zi7i 4 месяца назад

      ​@@mehoV2The patch on his arm. You can google "14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)"

    • @user-hj6uy5zi7i
      @user-hj6uy5zi7i 4 месяца назад

      @@mehoV2The patch on the guy's arm.
      You can google "14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)"

  • @cthoadmin7458
    @cthoadmin7458 11 месяцев назад

    Just think of it: war breaks out and no one turns up.

  • @jerryrichardson2799
    @jerryrichardson2799 11 месяцев назад +2

    Hope you're having a happy Fourth with your family.

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  • @Rob-hy8vb
    @Rob-hy8vb 11 месяцев назад +7

    Imagine we could of had drones for ww1 and ww2

    • @Charles-ij1ow
      @Charles-ij1ow 11 месяцев назад +12

      Imagine if we had lasers in the civil war aaah derrrr

    • @antonymossop3135
      @antonymossop3135 11 месяцев назад +4

      The V1 was effectively a 'kamikaze' drone - and with a pulse jet engine...

    • @thecheeselord5943
      @thecheeselord5943 11 месяцев назад

      There kinda was in ww2

    • @sovietyunyun9096
      @sovietyunyun9096 11 месяцев назад

      they used manned balloons/ biplanes for reconnaissance and spotting already in ww1 for similar effect

    • @SusCalvin
      @SusCalvin 11 месяцев назад

      @@sovietyunyun9096 They use a lot of concepts in 1917 that would be recognisable from 1940 and onwords, but lack just a small bit. Like how do we communicate what a pilot in a recce biplane can see to the artillery on the gound. Maybe haul a telephone cable up to the balloon or an OP, or drop a little capsule with photo film from the plane.

  • @mossfloss
    @mossfloss 11 месяцев назад +1

    That lady is already living in the past thinking that AI "remains incredibly brittle." That mindset will not age well.

  • @joshuanetherton220
    @joshuanetherton220 11 месяцев назад +1

    Whoever the woman in white is, she is most definitely a cyborg. Look at those eyes.

  • @Kenneth_James
    @Kenneth_James 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is ridiculous. The way Russia and Ukraine are forced to fight a war doesn't gel with the US who'd be launching massive vollies of stealth cruise missiles cruise and other air power for weeks before even starting to move land forces. THAAD in Guam, Japan, South Korea. US military has its own communications including Starlink Starshield now.

  • @rumighazali8984
    @rumighazali8984 4 месяца назад

    what are they doing with indonesian map? 8:35, is the war spreading across continent?

  • @Jakabokbotch2nd
    @Jakabokbotch2nd 11 месяцев назад +2

    the future of war will be dispute on online games. no bloodshed needed

  • @Ooooo..o
    @Ooooo..o 11 месяцев назад

    Do a piece on future of peace

  • @shzarmai
    @shzarmai 11 месяцев назад +1

    I think "Digitized Conscription" is certainly interesting and More countries should have a lot of combat drone factories imo ...

  • @user-gn1yw1fq6g
    @user-gn1yw1fq6g 11 месяцев назад

    In the future war will be like sitting in the home and playing video games

  • @SpaceandAI
    @SpaceandAI 11 месяцев назад

    If this goes like this then in future there is no Human only Machines

  • @Matisto1
    @Matisto1 11 месяцев назад +4

    Was digging this video until the AI card was pulled. As it stands I don't see AI being a factor on the battlefield for the coming decade.

    • @BGeezy4sheezy
      @BGeezy4sheezy 11 месяцев назад +1

      I tend to agree, but what’s exciting and terrifying, is that the rate of development of AI is hard to predict. It’s possible an AI could become more intelligent at an exponential rate, and then there’s no telling what the future would hold. But from what I’ve seen, you’re right, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 11 месяцев назад

      Then you clearly don't understand the difficulty of military decision making. AI can already give very useful suggestions to officer. Furthermore, in things like satellite image processing it has already surpassed humans because of its efficiency.

    • @Ruzzky_Bly4t
      @Ruzzky_Bly4t 11 месяцев назад

      The title of the video is "The future of war". Where on Earth did you get the one decade figure from?

  • @mariocaso6186
    @mariocaso6186 10 месяцев назад +3

    I couldn't help noticing the fact that everyone sound super ok with war itself. Nobody really tries to avoid it, only optimize it. I hope I'm wrong.

  • @Petemejia77
    @Petemejia77 11 месяцев назад

    9:15 Her eyes are seriously freaking me out, man!

  • @richardthompson7838
    @richardthompson7838 11 месяцев назад +1

    Palantir - need I say more.

  • @jondebbarma7287
    @jondebbarma7287 11 месяцев назад +3

    Electronic walfare laughing in corner😂😂😂

  • @subfreakuent
    @subfreakuent 11 месяцев назад

    So it begins.

    • @subfreakuent
      @subfreakuent 11 месяцев назад

      @TheEconomist__. Lol, what a pathetic bot comment...can't even spell right.

  • @englishjona6458
    @englishjona6458 11 месяцев назад

    We got to unarm people that want to fight wars