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Why hypersonic weapons change everything — Alex Krainer

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The war game just changed big time, actually for the first time since the dominance of sea power and then air power. This transition makes a great deal of very expensive military equipment obsolete. Moreover, the West is following in this domain, and not leading.This article does not mention another emergent military domain, space. Spending on missiles, missile defense, and space capabilities will shape the bulk of military spending, inclduing research and production, going forward.This will not obviate the need for boots on the ground and here a transition is underway to autonomous machines on the ground, in the air, and beneath of surface of the seas.All of the this presages a shift in military spending and potentially increases inorder to catch up and dominate. While the primary

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The war game just changed big time, actually for the first time since the dominance of sea power and then air power. This transition makes a great deal of very expensive military equipment obsolete. Moreover, the West is following in this domain, and not leading.

This article does not mention another emergent military domain, space. Spending on missiles, missile defense, and space capabilities will shape the bulk of military spending, inclduing research and production, going forward.

This will not obviate the need for boots on the ground and here a transition is underway to autonomous machines on the ground, in the air, and beneath of surface of the seas.

All of the this presages a shift in military spending and potentially increases inorder to catch up and dominate. While the primary players will be the US, Russia, China, and India, this trend will spill over into the entire international arms market.

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Why hypersonic weapons change everything

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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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