Now that we have had the eulogy, let us address the audience. The problem Brose presents is this: the defense acquisition ecosystem is no longer fit for its purpose. In fact, should one rescue the book from a dusty corner of an airport book shop someday, it will certainly call to mind the glittering years of navel-gazing from which the acquisitions process may never wake up. In its entirety, this book is a consequence of the death of America’s so-called unipolar moment following the Cold War and the death of imagination in preparing for it.

It is a book about the future deaths of human beings by semi-autonomous machines and about the technological potential for that reality. The results alarmed many including McCain and, by extension, his chief of staff, Brose. This book was further inspired by the apparent death of United States military dominance during a 2017 series of war games in which the United States lost against both Russia and China. Correspondingly it is a book about the desired death of a defense acquisitions ecosystem that has, according to Brose, contributed to building a military ill-equipped for the 21st century. It is a book that makes a case for the death of the current tradition of American power projection. It is a book about Senator John McCain’s legacy after pursuing defense reform as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Christian Brose’s The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare is a book about death.

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