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Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins the show to help us evaluate American performance against Iran so far and discuss the state of defense innovation in America. What is on the cutting edge? Where are we falling behind? And what happens if the war comes home?
Times:
01:58 - Audit of Operation Epic Fury
05:04 - Munitions and weapons shortages
08:30 - New lower-cost weapons
10:56 - The Barracuda cruise missile system
15:04 - Lessons from the battlefield
15:41 - Missile defense systems
21:47 - Software, data, and AI
24:39 - Homeland defense
27:02 - Containerization
28:05 - Industrial capacity
31:36 - Bringing Americans back into defense manufacturing
34:43 - The defense budget
39:02 - Anduril fundraising
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