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Thornton: Future combat assets will be too small for hypersonic missiles
“My personal belief, and this is, again, sort of a contrarian take, I think future warfighting has to be so decentralized that most of the assets used to fight wars are actually not large enough to consider taking out with a hypersonic missile.”
Thornton: China will out-manufacture the US on identical drones and missiles
“If the US is manufacturing a quadcopter and China's manufacturing the same quadcopter, if we're making a cruise missile and they're making the same cruise missile, they will out-manufacture us.”
Thornton predicts future forces will fight via decentralized multi-system kill webs
“The future for structure looks a lot more like a, it's kind of a buzzwordy term, but like almost like a kill web of hundreds of different systems, each doing some element of sensing communications and shooting such that your force is kind of fighting from ever…”
Thornton predicts US-China war would end in days via cyberattacks
“Look, I mean, unfortunately in a modern day, I think a hot war would end relatively quickly. Like you're talking about a very decisive outcome when you think about cyber effects and how quickly infrastructure in both countries would shut down. When you think a…”