Erik Prince
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 3 Mar
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They can train the Iranian people, carve out some part of Iran that they conquer and free and build from there, but it does not have to be done by our active duty forces, period.
Correct.
And if what's more strategic value to the United States is keeping the CCP from rolling over Taiwan because they make all the computer chips that we need to run a modern economy.
That is far more strategic.
We don't need anything in the Middle East for oil because we're independent thanks to Texas fracking.
Right.
So, yes, it's a math problem and it's a production problem.
Over the last 20, 30 years, you've really allowed a cartelization of our defense industry.
You have the five super majors, which make...
super exotic, very high-end weaponry that, as you just listed, is ridiculously expensive.
And so the cost of delivering energy, right?
There's two things a military commander does.
You coordinate information and release energy.
Move that airplane from here to there, move that ship, or put that warhead on a forehead.
The cost of doing a warhead on a
And Trump administration, to their credit, is trying to bring reform there and bring more competition to it, but haven't been able to go nearly fast enough because they have a lethargic, worthless Congress, which doesn't really change procurement rules to open up the throttle on production and procurement.
But those are, yes, what you just listed are very real math problems.
And if we deplete stocks further, now you leave the entire Pacific theater and the West Coast of the United States extremely open to incoming attack from anybody, really.
Yeah, Megan, I haven't I've not had a security clearance in more than 15 years, so maybe I'm just not very well briefed.
But at the end of the day, I think it's a math problem when you have an enemy like Iran that can field weapons that are $20,000 to $30,000 like a Shahed drone.
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