Dr. Mark Esper
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 31, 2022 by Dr. Mark Esper · across every show →
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Mar 31, 2022 negative
Esper: U.S. should not have fully withdrawn from Afghanistan without Taliban compliance
“That's why I was opposed to a complete withdrawal of our force from Afghanistan up until the, until the Taliban met their end of the political agreement, and if they weren't, then we should have stayed and maintained a presence and supported the Afghan army.”
Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022 negative
Esper: European allies are often reluctant to repatriate captured terrorist prisoners
“In other cases where we capture prisoners and we hold them, we try and press other countries, like our European partners, to take them back and hold them in more secure facilities. And there's often a reluctance to do so.”
Mar 31, 2022
Esper: Defense Procurement Should Specify Desired Outcomes, Not Technology Types
“We shouldn't tell them what type of technology. We should just say, what's the outcome we want? We want the ability to shoot down certain types of drones, fixed wing, rotary wing at certain distances, and that's it. Whether it's vacuum tube, Or digital technol…”
Mar 31, 2022 bearish
Esper: US Navy is behind on autonomous drone technology
“Yeah, you know, I think the Navy's behind.
we've been flying drones in the air now since the nineties.
we should be having surface drones, subsurface drones now.
There's, you know some conflict within the Navy about that, some moving too fast, too slow peopl…”
Mar 31, 2022 negative
Mar 31, 2022 positive
Esper: US needs a 500+ ship fleet with 100+ unmanned vessels
“What I argued for, what I put forward was a 500 plus fleet force with well over 100 optionally manned systems.
That's where we need to be.
That's gonna get us the capacity to control and monitor the seas, and then the capability as well to fight in the future.”