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Travis Metz joins WarTalk today. He was recently promoted to DIU’s acting director after spending the past year running the Drone Dominance Program. Co-hosting are Bryan Clark, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a retired submariner, and Justin McIntosh, a twenty-year retired Green Beret who served in the 1st and 5th Groups, who now works in defense …

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