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Podcast: The Lede
Episode: War on a Warming Planet — with Mike Martin and Lydia Wilson
Description: Nobody can predict the future, and warfare is particularly unpredictable. Nonetheless, the stakes involved are too high not to try. Attempts to understand what tomorrow’s wars might look like, and what futuristic weapons will be used to fight them, have long captured the imaginations of military planners, science fiction authors and the general public alike. But, says Mike Martin, a former British Army officer, “technology is often someone we focus on, but it's actually a bit of an addition.”
As the author of the book “How to Fight a War,” Martin has spent a lot of time...