Erik Bethel

And you allow these individual units to buy exactly what they need.

Like, how does the Pentagon, how does a bureaucrat in the Pentagon know what somebody in, I guess, you know, federated states of Micronesia of the future, you know, Marines need?

So I think that's a thoughtful...

And we'd shoot it down with a missile, million dollar missile.

You raise a super interesting point.

You know, we talk about near peer adversaries and we tend to think of, you know, China and that.

Well, guess what?

The Houthis are peer adversaries in the sense that... They're threatening ships.

We, for a month...

we rained a billion dollars of firepower literally on the Houthis in Yemen.

And they were like, okay, you stopped, good.

And they came out like cockroaches and started attacking ships again.

So I guess the question then becomes- How good is our shit?

There's a good graph of that.

And you could see like on the left, you know, there are like 100 and then they start like whittling down to like five or six.

And it's basically a small oligopoly of defense primes.

And I don't know how, that's not great for America.

Look, you have some companies like SailDrone that, you know, they make autonomous sailboats that can collect information for civilian use for NOAA and so forth, but then you can also make a kinetic version of that.

You know, others do the same thing.

But what am I seeing?