Erik Prince

The innovation speed in Ukraine is a guy gets an idea because they're getting their ass kicked in the battlefield.

He comes up with a prototype in their garage, tests it in the battle space over the next two weeks.

If it works, they get a contract.

That is the shortest compression of flash to bang in warfare today.

And we are not just, we're a thousand times that long on the best day now and thus a thousand or 10,000 times the cost.

It's controversial.

It's necessary.

Because the current paradigm is not it.

It was absolutely destined to fail.

If we get into a conventional conflict with China right now, we will suffer calamitous levels of casualties.

We can't build stuff anymore.

You've had, for all the talk of naval greatness and precision targeting and all the rest...

You lost the war to the Houthis.

The Houthis shut down, right?

It's a Iranian-backed faction in Yemen, Shia-based, that closed off the Red Sea for navigation because of Israel and Gaza.

president, I think they called it Operation Rough Rider, which is an insult to Teddy Roosevelt because it did not affect the change they wanted.

They went full hot and hard.

All the power of CENTCOM, U.S.

Navy, Air Force bombers, all the rest, they were still clacking off and attacking ships.

And true asymmetry, the Houthis would launch a