Eric Schmidt

Well, first of all, I'm a software person, not a hardware person.

I explain to people that hardware people go to different schools than software people.

and they think slightly differently.

So I'm always at a limitation in these new industries.

I had worked for the Secretary of Defense and have a top secret clearance and all that.

I was given a medal, et cetera, for trying to help the Pentagon reorganize itself.

And when the Ukraine war started, I was watching and I thought, well, here's an opportunity to see a country that has no Navy and no Air Force, how they do this with automation.

And indeed, it has been a spectacular success as a matter of innovation and outnumbered three to one with huge differences in kinetic strength, weapons, mobilization and so forth and so on.

Ukraine has held on really quite well.

And what's happening now is you're seeing essentially the birth of a completely new military national security structure.

One way to think about it is that we all, so first place, and I've seen it live, and I will tell you that real war is much worse than the worst movies you have ever seen about war, and that's all I'll say.

It's really horrific, and it's to be avoided at all cost.

And then, right, for obvious reasons.

And the...

And I love all these people who say, well, the warmongering talk, be careful what you wish for because the other side gets a vote.

When I started working and trying to understand what Ukraine was doing, Russia was pushed back and they've come back with a very, very strong second and third round.

So the enemy gets a vote in this situation.

But to go on, the rough way in which war will evolve is first things will have to be very, very mobile and very much not in fixed places.

This takes out most of the military infrastructure that exists in the world.

Things like tanks, of which we're now building a whole bunch more, even stronger tanks here in America, don't make any sense in a world where a two-kilogram payload from a well-armed drone can destroy the tank.