Summation with Auren Hoffman
Retired 4-star General John Allen on Iran, AI hyperwar, and Taiwan’s future
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John Allen is a retired four-star Marine Corps general who commanded 150,000 US and NATO troops in Afghanistan and built a 65-nation coalition as Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition Against ISIS. After retiring from the military, he led the Brookings Institution as its president. He co-invented the term "hyperwar," holds five AI patents, and co-authored Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to Microsoft.
In this episode of Summation, John and Auren discuss:
Why Ukraine's battlefield is accelerating the autonomous weapons timeline faster than any defense department predicted
The single assumption that doomed Afghanistan and why 2,500 troops could have changed everything
What nobody is asking about the US operation in Iran
How China's one-child military could be the most underappreciated deterrent against a Taiwan invasion
You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and John R. Allen on LinkedIn
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