Buck Sexton

He's founded really two unicorn companies, which is he's like a double unicorn.

It's pretty amazing.

Clay, the whole paradigm has changed now.

And it's important because if China has better AI, better tech, better drones, and manufacturing capacity for them as well, if they can make 100 UAVs of the absolute top range that can be used in offensive warfare for every 10 that we can make, we can't beat them.

That's what people have to understand.

It doesn't matter.

Yeah, we have the best soldiers in the world.

Well, if they can just out-manufacture us, the bravery of our soldiers is not going to be enough in a fight that's increasingly tech-based.

history teaches us that war is often one of the great evolutions of uh... technology and you go back in time civil war uh... for instance railroads changed the way that the war was bought uh... the war was fought under the concept of celerity but troops being able to hop on a railroad line and be able to get to a different area much faster

I was reading actually this morning as I was getting ready for our show, Buck, we just rolled off what many people believe will be the last tank.

And if you think about the history of warfare, certainly World War II to a large extent, it was airfare, air combat, air superiority, and then tanks and their ability to run roughshod over trench warfare and change the dynamic there.

The Ukraine-Russia war has basically turned into a drone battle.

And the question is, who can build the most drones and advanced drone technology the fastest is dictating success on the battlefield.

And they say basically even attacks by and large with soldiers are becoming virtually impossible because drones are so skilled and adept at being able to kill people as soon as they leave protective areas.

And so we are, I think, evolving in the same way that AI is iterating at a speed that, frankly, we've never seen before in the history of humanity.

We are right now in a technological inflection point where the manufacture of drones would likely dictate who would win World War III.

And who knows what comes next, Buck?

It may be robot warfare, right?

I mean, when you look at Elon building all these Optimus robots, it may be the case that the next war we fight is basically humans sitting around with joysticks trying to align robot battlefields.

and drones and everything else the technology is just evolving so rapidly and the manufacturing capacity is so key it's one reason why we're exploding exploding is the wrong word expanding uh our overall budget for the military because this is expensive and we need the wheels and uh and power of private industry to be able to win the future battles of combat